Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] been allowed [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Iraqis argued that if the USA were to set the date for the Bush-Aziz meeting , Iraq should have been allowed to choose the date of the Baker-Saddam meeting . |
| 2 | Mrs Freer hissed as she passed her and in the dressing room the other models pointedly turned their backs on her , annoyed that an untrained shop girl should have been allowed to trespass in their territory . |
| 3 | We have demonstrated once again that technical difficulties can be overcome and we believe that this proves that PFR should have been allowed to continue operations beyond 31st March , 1994 ’ . |
| 4 | The Court of Appeal said that the press should have been allowed to remain : " … the public generally are interested in cases of this kind , and for not unworthy reasons . |
| 5 | In fact , Theda thought it a beautiful old building , and felt it to be a pity that it should have been allowed to go to rack . |
| 6 | In 1829 a convicted prisoner petitioned that he should have been allowed to free himself from a charge of robbery by rendering compensation . |
| 7 | Someone else should have been allowed to come here . |
| 8 | The protests flew thick and fast that McMillan should have been allowed to keep his crown because he was , mystifyingly , three rounds ahead on two judges ' scorecards and , more realistically , one in front on another . |
| 9 | You should have been allowed to congratulate her first . |
| 10 | Two , the could proceed without the landlord 's licence , it would then be up to the landlord to apply to the court to have the lease forfeited when you could arrange the defence that you were a reasonable tenant and as such the assignment should have been allowed to permit this course of action but of course you are using bank money as well as your own and the bank would be unhappy to lend money in a situation where there was a possibility , albeit a slight , that the lease would be forfeited . |
| 11 | Livingstone 's attacks on Europe reflect a 1970s provincial prejudice and populist demagogy unworthy of a politician who hoped to offer himself as Labour leader ( and who should have been allowed to run ) . |
| 12 | The point in both appeals was whether the jury should have been allowed to hear the tape recording of the appellant 's interview with the police when they requested it after retirement , it not having been played to them during the course of the trial . |
| 13 | If you tilt your pelvis upwards , your abdomen automatically pulls in and your buttocks tighten , helping to straighten the ‘ S ’ shape that may have been allowed to develop over the years . |
| 14 | The Celts would have been allowed to go on collecting mistletoe in their forests . |
| 15 | If you had n't come round that night , none of this would have been allowed to happen — ’ |
| 16 | ‘ There was no way he would have been allowed to run if something was wrong . |
| 17 | ‘ There was no way he would have been allowed to run if something was wrong . |
| 18 | I believe that if Piggy had not had so many physical defects he would have been allowed to make himself heard . |