Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been think " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , by April 1982 , surely the Cabinet should have been thinking about it . |
| 2 | And that , too , amazed her , that he should have been thinking so clearly , calculating how long it would take . |
| 3 | But with the Official Custodian sending back these investments , the trustees will have to think of what they should have been thinking about years ago : management of their trust funds . ’ |
| 4 | Even before he was consecrated , and perhaps as soon as he was elected , at a moment when , by ordinary rules of prudence , he should have been thinking of equipping himself with all the forms of expert knowledge required by his new position , he chose one of the group of English monks to be his closest and most constant companion . |
| 5 | She should have been thinking about the boys ' tea , and about Frederick 's dinner . |
| 6 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 7 | Why this should have been thought evidence of scurrility was known only to Joyce ‘ s peculiar logic . |
| 8 | Suggestions for extension work should have been thought out by the publishers , also follow-up assignments and how the software might be fitted into further schemes of work or related to other subject areas . |
| 9 | It was him she must have been thinking of . |
| 10 | At that moment , Willie Aitchison , Lee Trevino 's faithful caddie , must have been thinking the reverse . |
| 11 | Tolkien must have been thinking of Njorthr the sea-god and Skathi , daughter of the mountain-giant , in Snorri Sturluson 's Prose Edda . |
| 12 | The scent of human food was very strong in the Gruncher 's nostrils , and he must have been thinking that so long as he kept going flat out , he would catch his meal in the end . |
| 13 | She must have been thinking of Steven ( bridegroom 's name ) . |
| 14 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |
| 15 | As he stood on the tee with the green five hundred yards away , Kyle must have been thinking of another birdie , possibly an eagle . |
| 16 | But he must have been thinking something and I would have given anything to know what it was . |
| 17 | She suddenly became aware that she must have been thinking of Naylor Massingham for quite a bit of the journey , when she was all at once incredibly jolted by a question that flashed into her head out of nowhere . |
| 18 | No and we 'd got three young girls , new , new girls and I saw those and I must have been thinking about Mandy and the car because they said something about oh when we leave we 're all going on a picnic to and I think it was Kettering or quite some time aw some |
| 19 | At 3:1 United were cruising again and the Manor Ground fans must have been thinking what could have been this season if there had been more games like this . |
| 20 | However small they were , such payments must have been thought worth collecting . |
| 21 | McMenemy might have been thinking of Steve Williams , another promising talent who 'd already won six England caps when he moved from Southampton to Arsenal in December l984 . |
| 22 | While waiting I tried to imagine what she might have been thinking . |
| 23 | Given their age , symptoms and frailty , it might have been thought that the residents of old people 's homes would receive more care from visiting nurses than people in the community , as they received more visits from general practitioners . |
| 24 | You do n't have to believe in God in order to practise astronomy or to understand how the movement of the planets is regulated , as might have been thought to be the case before Isaac Newton 's time . |
| 25 | Now there was once a Queen , who might have been thought to have everything she could desire in the world , but had set her heart on a strange silent bird a traveller had told of , which lived in the snowy mountains , nested only once , raised its gold and silver chick , sang once only , and then faded like snow in the lowlands . |
| 26 | Furthermore it might have been thought that the compact microfilm system would have found its way from outreach extensions into busy bureaux to replace the cumbersome paper files but , as will be seen in Chapter 5 , it is in fact likely to remain purely a portable tool . |
| 27 | In view of the dicey and rapidly deteriorating state of our physical surroundings , largely attributable to our ham-fisted handling of the powers bestowed on us by scientific and technological ‘ progress ’ , it might have been thought that there was a place in society for young persons who had taken the time and the trouble needed to give themselves some understanding of the problems we have set ourselves , so that they could help to reduce the damage done , and the worse damage yet to come . |
| 28 | It will have been noted that , not content with imposing upon themselves the task of ruling through the tendering of advice , which might have been thought difficult enough , the British took upon themselves in Northern Nigeria the even more difficult task of ruling without actually appearing to rule at all — an undertaking whose very absurdity only emphasizes its interest . |
| 29 | Within private care where the element of choice might have been thought to be an advantage it was found that a third of residents did not choose , and for 22 per cent the unsolicited efforts of either a relative , the general practitioner or a social worker led to their admission ( Weaver et al . , |
| 30 | Geometric abstraction has been a mainstay in the art of Valerie Jaudon for many years : she has worked more patterned variations on the relationship between the curved and the straight line than might have been thought possible . |