Example sentences of "[modal v] have [been] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 2 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 3 | The death of Matthew Makepeace , the man who should have been lecturing that afternoon , ‘ one of the most promising scholars of his generation ’ , the old Professor used to tell us , was ‘ an inestimable loss to the department and the university as a whole ’ . |
| 4 | It must have been discouraging that Adieu was not thought worthy to be given at Sadler 's Wells , and that the more handsome setting which Stevenson had designed for it was not used at that time . |
| 5 | It was so fresh that it must have been baked that morning at Ksabi . |
| 6 | Straightforward conversation wife to wife , well again she must have been told that by her husband to even mention it . |
| 7 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 8 | ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption . |
| 9 | In these circumstances it might have been expected that town planning would be guaranteed a fair wind for many years while the consensus survived . |
| 10 | Similarly , it might have been expected that " space station " would score even higher than 87% . |
| 11 | You 'd have been doing that . |
| 12 | Implicitly , many decisions may have been made that disadvantage older people . |
| 13 | Somebody would 've been drunk that night you see , half past nine at night , thought it was a good trick . |
| 14 | This clearly might have been proceeded against as an affray , and counsel 's argument before the Court of Appeal appears to have been that once violence had actually been used , the proper course would have been to charge that offence . |
| 15 | ‘ Another smile like the one you were giving him and he would have been fastening that ribbon himself . |
| 16 | A dwelling in Scotland that is placed in band D will have been assigned that band because its value at 1 April 1991 is over £45,000 but does not exceed £58,000 . |