Example sentences of "[modal v] have [been] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | With hindsight this final point should have been given more significance from the start . |
| 2 | ‘ And I said Mark Robins is a local lad who cost nothing and should have been given more of a chance . |
| 3 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 4 | One of Town 's resolutions must have been to make more of their chances . |
| 5 | Critical discourse might have been given more space , especially in the context of the brief discussion of " canon " , but it is well handled in the earlier volume by Durant and Fabb , so can be picked up again in a course which focuses more clearly on literary texts using that book . |
| 6 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |
| 7 | His reason for looking after Lennie would have been to get more money from collecting all of Lennie 's . |
| 8 | To have insisted would have been to demand more details about Montaine , and more explanations about their love , than I was entitled to . |