Example sentences of "should [verb] been the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Returning ships from the Falklands brought much detail about the campaign that should have been the stuff of correspondent 's reports in a democratic society . |
2 | I should have been the hero of the game but I will always be known as the one who lost it . |
3 | Steve Cauthen , who rode Balla Cove , had earlier taken the other feature race on the card , the Godolphin Stakes , on Spritsail — a victory that should have been the subject of a stewards ' inquiry . |
4 | If a company chairman described trading as ‘ bad ’ in his address to the annual general meeting , and then later told an analyst it was ‘ very bad ’ , and if the analyst then advised clients to sell , would that be inside information which should have been the subject of a further statement to the Stock Exchange ? |
5 | Even in Wales , where gloom and doom should have been the order of the next year or two , the clubs have set off in a style which has brought , instead , a nervous smile or two . |
6 | That should have been the end of it . |
7 | He got rid of me and that should have been the end of it . |
8 | It would seem from the pleadings to which I have referred that that should have been the end of the case . |
9 | That should have been the end of it but it most certainly was not . |
10 | It is no accident that Schickelgruber , the failed artist who became Hitler , should have been the son of a petty official and have spent his ambitions at the butt end of Viennese snobbery . |
11 | I truly feel Co Armagh should have been the winners of the Irish award as Cherry Orchard fully deserved the visiting award . |
12 | Yet nothing could be more surprising than that Sir Frederick Lugard should have been the father of Indirect Rule , a system of administration supposedly distinguished by the judicious delegation of authority . |
13 | It should have been the signal for a resounding runaway triumph in the second half especially after a Niall Quinn header also hit the woodwork . |
14 | As he was found guilty of having intercourse with a girl of under 16 years of age , logic surely draws the conclusion that if she is unable to testify in court , she is unable to give informed consent to sexual intercourse ; in other words that the grounds on which the charge was dropped should have been the grounds on which rape was proven . |
15 | 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 . |