Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] been [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | If that was where Harry had died , there should have been a big area quarantined off with tape . |
| 33 | ‘ You should have been a big game hunter , Maggie . ’ |
| 34 | I would have thought it should have been a national effort . |
| 35 | 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 ’ . |
| 36 | They sat at a table covered with a checked tablecloth and tiles clicked underfoot ( Mummy brought back the tiles from Spain ) , and there was a big , brick fireplace with horse-brasses and copper pans and the boiler in the middle for the central heating , where there should have been a huge fire . |
| 37 | This should have been a deliberate policy on your part . |
| 38 | James Pegg should have been a happy man , for he was with Alfred and unaccompanied by Alice . |
| 39 | At first glance , Wilson should have been a superlative practitioner of Cabinet government . |
| 40 | So came into existence the ‘ Harborough Arm ’ a branch that should have been a main line . |
| 41 | There should have been a full house at Manchester for the Davis Cup , there was n't . |
| 42 | In what should have been a single sketch here protracted over two debilitating hours the only observable success was in managing to incite a young child in the audience to enquire with regular insistence : ‘ What 's going on Mum ? ’ |
| 43 | To historians of the left the new popular culture represented a fatal and quite decisive fragmentation of what should have been a working-class consciousness . |
| 44 | Harold Laski said Beatrice Webb should have been a medieval abbess , where her organising ability would have gained a spiritual dimension . |
| 45 | Only high spot from what should have been a red letter day was the terrific £300 raised for the local Hartlepool hospice . |
| 46 | ‘ Do n't think you 've heard the last of this matter , ’ he said through his teeth , ‘ you wo n't get away with it , taking from me my home and my birthright , I should have been the eldest son , I am more worthy of the position . |
| 47 | It seemed to me that when the top men from the States came over , the first person to oppose them , to make a good confrontational meeting , should have been the European champion . |
| 48 | Changez 's brother sent him money , too , which was unusual , because it should have been the other way round as Changez made his way in the affluent West , but I was sure celebrations in India at Changez 's departure were still taking place . |
| 49 | I think it should have been the other way round because I was black and blue from head to toe . |
| 50 | No , whoops , I might have put one on top of the other when it should have been the other way round , so always have this check , er does the answer look , I mean , no , you ca n't always tell , but sometimes you can , sometimes you can think well those two are about the same price per gram , are n't they ? |
| 51 | Ideally , she knew , Brian should have been the recipient of all this intellectual and spiritual outpouring , but he was not interested , and her therapist , who should have been the other option , merely picked all the meat off her perceptions and left her with a meaningless pile of bones . |
| 52 | A general strike brought Kosovo virtually to a standstill on Sept. 3 , and schools were also boycotted on what should have been the first day of a new school year . |
| 53 | He should have been the principal suspect . ’ |
| 54 | In the circumstances I should have been the good daughter , studious and uninterested in boyfriends . |
| 55 | ‘ It should have been the best holiday of our lives but it was terrible , ’ said Deborah , also 24 . |
| 56 | But surely state intervention should have been the best way of achieving both goals ? |
| 57 | It should have been the best day of my career but it turned into a nightmare . ’ |
| 58 | ‘ He should have been the best horse I ever had , if only he 'd had decent health ! ’ from owner David Broome , this was quite some testimonial to the abilities of the brilliant grey show-jumper , Phoenix Park . |
| 59 | ‘ He was the worst leader of what should have been the best cause in the world . ’ |
| 60 | This was the winner against Chesterfield scored by Simon Brain after 12 minutes and this should have been the second goal . |