Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new breakthrough should have been made in mid-1989 , when the track was used as a theme to the Jeff Goldblum/Rowan Atkinson movie The Tall Guy , in which Suggs made an appearance . |
| 2 | Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates . |
| 3 | There is , of course , no reason why Baldwin should have been influenced by one motive to the exclusion of others . |
| 4 | Also exempt would be a contract which could or should have been governed by one of the systems of law in the UK , where s 27(2) ( b ) does not apply , and the parties have chosen a foreign proper law for a genuine reason other than evasion of the UCTA ( eg because the other party was a foreigner who insisted on using the law of his own jurisdiction as the governing law of the contract ) . |
| 5 | He said the entrance should not have been in the centre , but a little door should have been built at one side . |
| 6 | In view of the new wording of Condition 2 the claimant must produce , if loss or damage is sustained while in the care of an airline , a Property Irregularity Report , a copy of the formal written notice to the airline which should have been written within three days of loss or damage and all travel tickets and tags . |
| 7 | At half past three Kaptan and I should have been reading from one of the textbooks but , in fact , I was lying in the Colonel 's hammock while Kaptan , with his inexhaustible energy , was trying to catch frogs . |
| 8 | Had he not done so I could not have gone to Eton , and should have been deprived of one of the most formative influences in my life . |
| 9 | The improvements to estates should have been completed in five years when the HATs will be wound up and the houses disposed of to new landlords who could be the local council , a private individual or company , a housing association or a co-operative . |
| 10 | Their secretary , Bernard Halford , said last night : ‘ All the loose ends should have been settled within 48 hours . ’ |
| 11 | Under the complaints procedure action should have been taken within 20 working days . |
| 12 | Lessons that should have been learned from two similar collisions at Bellgrove in Glasgow and Hyde near Manchester , were not taken on board in time . |
| 13 | Lessons that should have been learned from two similar collisions at Bellgrove in Glasgow and Hyde near Manchester , were not taken on board in time . |
| 14 | What should have been produced by 4 million workers needed 6.7 million to be manufactured , i.e. per capita productivity was more than 50% below the planned level . |
| 15 | Jones v Sherwood was about the sale of a business and should have been reported in one of the principal general series . |
| 16 | The X-ray satellite Exosat should have been launched in 1977 , before the more-sophisticated Einstein Observatory . |
| 17 | One interpretation of the foregoing could be that the red jackets which should have been issued in 1820 were not to be issued for another three years , and the soldiers dressed in white clothing ( and shell jackets ) as much as possible . |
| 18 | Since Childebert I is said to have acknowledged Gundovald 's claim to Merovingian blood , the issue must have been raised before 558 , perhaps long before . |
| 19 | Birth dates are not given on marriage certificates , only ages , and his mother 's was there as twenty-five , which meant she must have been born in 1926 and have been twenty-seven when he was born . |
| 20 | The Gospel must have been written after 65–70 AD if Mark is one of his sources . |
| 21 | Divorce of this kind was first introduced into English law by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 , and from then until 1969 it was based upon the doctrine that some matrimonial offence ( such as adultery or desertion ) must have been committed by one spouse before the other could obtain relief . |
| 22 | That creature must have been travelling at 60 miles per hour . |
| 23 | The phrase ‘ married to a hearing wife ’ is written in a different hand and must have been entered after 1839 which was the year Lowe married a Francis Charlotte Jellicoe in London . |
| 24 | Even so , if the enthusiasts for the citizenship ideal sought comfort from this proliferation of interest against the background of a decline in party commitment , they might have been chastened by one reaction to the report of the Speaker 's Commission . |
| 25 | The Frenchman 's exceptional talents might have been rewarded with two goals in the first half here in the Neckarstadion . |
| 26 | France 's 441 auctioneers ( commissaires-priseurs ) , the most protected and privileged of Europe , might have been faced in 1993 with the biggest shake-up since their status was established by decree of Henri II in 1552 . |
| 27 | For example [ 3 ] might have been divided into two separate units of information by punctuation : [ 14 ] The discreet door shut — with a click . |
| 28 | Indeed , the look might have been interpreted as one of ferocity if there is such a thing as a ferocious duck . |
| 29 | He might have been stumped on 44 but that was the only chance he gave . |
| 30 | This factor seems to have made a solid contribution towards forging the Iranian forces into a much more effective fighting machine than might have been expected in 1979 . |