Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] should have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourteen of these patients are well , a mean of 9.4 years ( range 3–12 ) after what should have been their programme entry date . |
| 2 | Ultimately , he dashed out of bed and caught a cab to the theatre — where he arrived thirty minutes after what should have been curtain time , to see his erstwhile audience walking away , dejected looks on most of the faces . |
| 3 | Cos there 's millions and millions of pounds that the revenue have got rushing about which should have been repaid to er investors . |
| 4 | Clearly , the largest surfaces to be covered in any room are the walls and the floor , and there are invariably two schools of thought about which should have preference in the budget . |
| 5 | But Lévi-Strauss rather objects to the ethnocentrism of Sartre 's argument , for it means that ‘ man ’ , the constituents of whom should have been the result and product of Sartre 's anthropology , is defined in advance in terms of the dialectic as historical humanity , with history effectively restricted to societies of the West . |
| 6 | Well , both of them should have been wearing their life jackets before they were over water , and X should not have stowed the dinghy in the locker area when he could have kept it closer to hand on one of the spare rear seats . |
| 7 | Writing on the boys ' club movement in 1904 , W. J. Braithwaite thought that ‘ itis dangerous for the club and the boys that many of them should have tasted too much of freedom ’ . |
| 8 | That relics of them should have survived for such a vast period of time seemed even more difficult to believe . |
| 9 | They pecked at some dead creature on the moorland verge , squabbling over which of them should have it , wheeling and darting at each other like terrible shadows in the mist . |
| 10 | Is it not totally unacceptable that when only 13 questions were answered on Welsh matters , four of them should have been asked by Hon. Members with English constituencies and that most of the questions were answered by a Member representing an English constituency ? |
| 11 | They had agreed that each of them should have carte blanche , no questions asked nor opinions given , unsolicited . |
| 12 | The British Horse Society is anxious to find out why a third of them should have happened in this year alone . |
| 13 | Two seconds , one of which should have been a first . |
| 14 | They argue for an attainment profile in each subject , consisting of several components , one of which should have cross-curricular features . |
| 15 | Also , do not allow a player to make the ball dead behind his own goal-line unless he is being tackled ; a player making the ball dead when there is no player within 10 years of him should have to take a drop-out from under the posts . |
| 16 | I said well I said that was the twenty first of it should have gone on the eleventh see but it did n't it go twenty first . |
| 17 | Deliveries are checked for damage and/or shortages ( the advice note/delivery note will have a record of what should have been sent ) |
| 18 | Mayer was trying to console Gilbert on the day of what should have been his wedding to Garbo , but when the bride failed to appear the forsaken groom fled to the men 's room where Mayer found him crying . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ He was the worst leader of what should have been the best cause in the world . ’ |
| 21 | Home I went for the Christmas vac with the ragged tatters of what should have been a well-moulded start to a brilliant career ! |
| 22 | " Now " is better used in study than in unprofitable re-writing of what should have been done well in the first place . |
| 23 | Ultimately there are more things in life than canoeing ; unfortunately we had allowed things to become part of what should have been a purely personal outing in a boat ; in doing this we had ensured that our attempt did not go ahead . |
| 24 | It seemed almost a mockery , a travesty of what should have been . |
| 25 | 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 … |
| 26 | Most of us should have some clues as to why we are as we are . |
| 27 | DAVID MELLOR has gone to the back benches nursing the belief that since he told John Major all about his expenses-paid holiday it made it okay and if life were fair none of us should have considered him out of order . |
| 28 | I mean every every one of us should have a copy . |
| 29 | as if someone like me should have sat there quietly like a mouse , demure and repressed ! |
| 30 | You appear to be in some sort of surreal shopping mall , with the world 's TV laid out for purchase : you almost feel like you should have a shopping trolley , to wheel up and down the aisles . |