Example sentences of "should have be [vb pp] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords held that damages should have been assessed on the basis of the known fact that the plaintiff would in any event have been totally incapable of work as a result of spinal disease from 1976 . |
| 2 | In military terms the problem should have been settled on the first day . |
| 3 | There is no a priori reason why she should have been modelled on the warlike goddess Minerva ( or Roma ) ; indeed , on an Italian medal made in 1564 , Anglia ( as she then was , before the unification of the kingdoms ) appears as a simple female figure dressed in the ordinary clothes of daily life . |
| 4 | That it should have been modelled on the Temple of Solomon may seem at first sight presumptuous , but it was an age that relished allusion , and Solomon , son of David , was of royal descent , anointed by Zadok the priest , and the king par excellence . |
| 5 | In this situation , the dealer 's liability to the finance company should have been founded on the sale contract between them . |
| 6 | ‘ These louts who , long ago , should have been smacked on the behind by their parents ’ excited Sir Marcus Lipton , who was something of a Parliamentary dove on these occasions , no less than Mr Gerald Nabarro who considered that ‘ a proper policy ought to be to ‘ whack the thugs ' ’ ’ . |