Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] be [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he must do is to formulate an assertion which contradicts our own , and give us his instruction for testing it . |
| 2 | Iris would actually and maybe what we should do is buy a diary |
| 3 | The first thing you should do is to prepare a breakdown . |
| 4 | The woman had not looked like a prostitute , besides which had that been the case Fedorov 's driver should have been taking a walk along the quay , or just sitting gazing tactfully ahead . |
| 5 | The other time I came near to being shot was in May , when nobody should have been firing a rifle . |
| 6 | Musician to the end , he died through insisting on conducting a new revival of Castor et Pollux when he should have been nursing an illness . |
| 7 | ‘ Which is what should have been done a week since . ’ |
| 8 | Martin needed a bit of time to settle down and should have been given a couple of throws in his usual position in the middle before going to the front and staying there . |
| 9 | He should have been given a medal for trying to catch a car vandal . |
| 10 | Thompson was backed by former hard-man Liverpool colleague Tommy Smith , who said Thompson should have been given a medal for what he did at Anfield , not the sack . |
| 11 | and she said well we 've got , for instance , one of my favourite patience is the girl of er , I think she 's nineteen , and er , she 's in their because her father had raped her since she was about eight , when she was sixteen she killed him , well I said well I think she should have been given a medal . |
| 12 | Derek felt from an early age that he should have been born a woman . |
| 13 | 1.9 In every case the onus lies on the defendant to prove that the plaintiff should have been wearing a seat belt and that his injuries would have been avoided or less severe if he had been . |
| 14 | First , take the point made by Mr. Holloway from Germany , who says that South Africa ( they should have been granted a dispensation and welcomed to World Cup 1991 ) must surely go through the full qualifying process for 1995 . |
| 15 | Copsey should have been awarded a Lonsdale belt for his first-half haymaker on Francis . |
| 16 | Celtic should have been awarded a penalty in the 87th minute when Slater was tripped in the box but the referee waved away the appeals . |
| 17 | It was argued for the husband that the wife should have been awarded a lump sum of £532,000 , calculated in accordance with the principles established in Preston v Prestion ( 1982 ) Fam 17 and Duxbury v Duxbury ( 1987 ) FLR 7 , to provide sufficient income to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the former wife of a millionaire . |
| 18 | In reply , Greenidge and Richards hammered 88 in even time , but then only Murray made a substantial score , his 64 being joint top with Richards and 41 more than it should have been had a catch been accepted ; 308 all out . |
| 19 | ‘ I should have been marrying a prince . ’ |
| 20 | The discovery should have been predicted a decade earlier by Einstein . |
| 21 | It must have been chasing a squirrel or something and fell into the hollow and could not get out again . ’ |
| 22 | She must have been given a lift home from school with someone 's dad , because there were two other girls in the car in green uniforms . |
| 23 | ‘ Something is wrong , Fabia ? ’ he asked urgently , leaving his stance over by the French window where he must have been taking a look outside , to come over to her . |
| 24 | He must have been staggering a bit out there by the pool . |
| 25 | First , D must have been committing a crime . |
| 26 | ‘ And somewhere , ’ Husband said , ‘ Mrs Howard must have been keeping a file on Gustav Eismark . |
| 27 | Or what I might do is make a couple of these up but fill them out a bit more . |
| 28 | ‘ You 'll have been given a directive from D21 ? ’ |
| 29 | That might have been written a week ago following the extraordinary dispute over a young girl 's ear . |
| 30 | In the morning , I slept through the pigeons , but around 8.30 a loud banging started down in the nave like they might have been building a scaffold or something . |