Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joe Royle should have been appointed two years ago . |
| 2 | But for the alteration in taxation in the Budget and also the minor alterations in projected expenditure which preceded it , we should have been facing 1968/69 with the identical prospect of a further creation of additional purchasing power . |
| 3 | The Japanese hi-fi 's clapped out , the VW should have been replaced 18 months ago , and that new Miele dishwasher does n't quite fit alongside the Swedish fridge . |
| 4 | The dispute should have been settled 53 years ago when the 1930 Reservoirs Act ruled that the owners of all reservoirs containing more than 23 million litres must have them inspected and repaired regularly . |
| 5 | She should have been doing three hundred . |
| 6 | The General Commissioners , after considering the relevant facts , in particular that the accounts should have been submitted three or four years previously , awarded each company a penalty of £2,000 . |
| 7 | The well-organised Russian rearguard should have been pierced five minutes into the second half when Michael Thomas found himself just six yards out , only for Dmitri Khlestov to clear off the line . |
| 8 | But you must you must have been asked dozens of times to go back into the pop concert field ? |
| 9 | they must have been putting two thousand in you know |
| 10 | the erm the displayed decoded it 's actually mounted next to the kit and all we 'll do is take twenty four volts out , volts out , they 'll take the , take the data off the kit itself and then just bring twenty four volts out |
| 11 | So I think what 'll do is contact one or two of British companies with probably way out stuff and just see if there set up in Japan . |
| 12 | The problem for the students to some extent , is being compounded by the withdrawal of housing benefit , which means that they 're paying the full cost of rents in the private sector , whereas before they might have been getting ten , twelve even , more pounds a week refunded to them through the housing benefit scheme . |
| 13 | then it you know they might have been delayed one way or another . |
| 14 | The thing that worries some people is that as it 's come at this particular time that some of the things that might have been done five years ago by Local Education Authorities to improve their whole education for children with special needs may now , either through other competing financial pressures , or through inertia or whatever , the whole spirit of Warnock could be lost , and I think it 's a thing that , you know , one will have to keep a careful eye on . |
| 15 | Action might have been taken two months ago . |
| 16 | ‘ Nevertheless , it is strange that he should keep such a sum on current account , when he could have been earning two per cent interest . ’ |
| 17 | Indeed , had Sheffield referee John Key not been so lenient , Wright could have been dismissed two or three times over . |
| 18 | Thus what looks like a perfect example of a ‘ horns of a dilemma ’ structure , turns out not to be so — it was a game that could have been played two or three lessons or ten lessons later . |
| 19 | Bristol Crown Court heard expert evidence that the double spinal fracture which left baby Danielle in terrible pain could have been inflicted 24 hours before she died . |
| 20 | The British tranche was none the less fully subscribed , but shares on sale in Europe were oversubscribed and those offered in New York could have been sold four times over . |
| 21 | Cambridge-line passengers , celebrating the establishment of an electric link to Bishop 's Stortford and Liverpool Street , felt short-changed when the only trains BR could offer were facelifted 1960 built Class 305 slam-door stock , actually older than the hauled stock it replaced . |
| 22 | A British Cox 's apple may have been sprayed 12 times and dipped in fungicide before it reaches your fruit bowl . |
| 23 | Where the main constructive waves are swell waves which may have been generated hundreds and even thousands of kilometres away and travelled on as free waves , it is quite likely that the local resultant wind has a far smaller part in the orientation of coastal forms . |
| 24 | For Freud , this would have been to replace one set of dogmatic assertions with another set , held by the believers to be for ever true , and providing a sense of false security for them . |
| 25 | And then you say , ‘ if you had stated that [ the passengers were returning separately ] , you would have been issued two tickets . ’ |
| 26 | In Sweden , sulphur dioxide emissions will have been reduced 65 per cent between 1980 and 1995 , 45 per cent by 1985 . |
| 27 | All they can do is exchange one form of wage slavery' for another . |
| 28 | Right , well , all I can do is take one lot , one coupon . |