Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [be] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | However , whereas it should have been a joyous occasion , it was not . |
2 | The opportunity should have been a real opportunity of doing something effective . |
3 | The two tall oblongs of light from the first-floor drawing-room window should have been a welcoming promise of warmth and comfort . |
4 | IT SHOULD have been a good week . |
5 | Twice , in less than four days , what should have been a simple operation had turned bad . |
6 | But when I later tried to find my way back to the dining-room to finish my meal , which should have been a simple thing to do , I just could not locate it at all . |
7 | It should have been a simple matter to check , but the dosimeters for measuring radioactivity were locked in a safe and the panel in the control room was dead . |
8 | What should have been a simple review looked like it was about to turn into techno-confusion when the owner 's manual stated I could find a hook-up diagram on page 42 , and it was n't there . |
9 | Home I went for the Christmas vac with the ragged tatters of what should have been a well-moulded start to a brilliant career ! |
10 | It should have been a new beginning , a clean slate but , as she rode out the following morning , her head clouded from lack of sleep , Kelly knew that life was never that easy . |
11 | Even allowing for what they would have lost on laundering the proceeds , there should have been a tidy sum . |
12 | The Sun decisively sabotaged what should have been a major circulation booster for its main competitor . |
13 | Given his abilities and his natural desire to go into space , it should have been a logical extension of his career to graduate from the Air Force into the Space Programme . |
14 | IT SHOULD have been a great year for Julie Walters . |
15 | The visit should have been a great success for both the tall and the short mavericks of the respective alliances . |
16 | It was a beautiful day with small cumulus clouds and about thirty miles visibility , and it should have been a great experience , but unfortunately I felt deadly sick all the way and could hardly bear to look out . |
17 | What should have been a great event was diminished . |
18 | Hugh Kenner veers unexpectedly into the idiom of the British schoolboy : ‘ Blast should have been a great lark ’ . |
19 | I felt the most awful failure , and thought that perhaps if we could try again — since the thing was done , the point of no return passed — we might arrange things better , somehow recapture the basis of feeling we had had , which should have been a perfect foundation for a love-affair , but which we had somehow bungled and thrown away . |
20 | Gloucester never got themselves into gear and they made hard work of what should have been a straightforward game … in the second half they hammered away at Scottish … all but lived on their line but failed to get over it … |
21 | ENGLAND manager Geoff Cooke , horrified by violence that marred what should have been a gentle centenary celebration , read the riot act to the players after England 's new kids on the block found themselves on the rack at Leicester . |
22 | Midge protested at what she saw as bureaucratic interference in what should have been a private grief . |
23 | Nkrumah saw this as a contradiction , and was critical , thus annoying Nyerere who should have been a natural ally . |
24 | That the place chosen should have been a quiet seaside resort , on a dark night of cold wind blowing from the Channel and the summer season over , made the events seem more bizarre . |
25 | WHEN HUNDREDS of nuclear engineers came together for what should have been a festive shindig last week , there was universal gloom . |
26 | But there 's a big difference in my view between the sort of regular abuse and assaults on staff in a Casualty Department and somebody walking into what should have been a locked ward on a children 's unit in a hospital at two o'clock in the morning . |
27 | If that was where Harry had died , there should have been a big area quarantined off with tape . |
28 | ‘ You should have been a big game hunter , Maggie . ’ |
29 | I would have thought it should have been a national effort . |
30 | There should have been a large timber column but this had been removed for some reason many years ago and led to the roof sagging some 4 ’ . |