Example sentences of "[modal v] have [been] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Funny , I did n't think I 'd hit him , but I suppose I must have — must 've been the second shot . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't think you 've heard the last of this matter , ’ he said through his teeth , ‘ you wo n't get away with it , taking from me my home and my birthright , I should have been the eldest son , I am more worthy of the position . |
| 3 | It seemed to me that when the top men from the States came over , the first person to oppose them , to make a good confrontational meeting , should have been the European champion . |
| 4 | Changez 's brother sent him money , too , which was unusual , because it should have been the other way round as Changez made his way in the affluent West , but I was sure celebrations in India at Changez 's departure were still taking place . |
| 5 | I think it should have been the other way round because I was black and blue from head to toe . |
| 6 | Ideally , she knew , Brian should have been the recipient of all this intellectual and spiritual outpouring , but he was not interested , and her therapist , who should have been the other option , merely picked all the meat off her perceptions and left her with a meaningless pile of bones . |
| 7 | No , whoops , I might have put one on top of the other when it should have been the other way round , so always have this check , er does the answer look , I mean , no , you ca n't always tell , but sometimes you can , sometimes you can think well those two are about the same price per gram , are n't they ? |
| 8 | That the most northerly of the Anglian kings should have been the first non-Kentish ruler to adopt Christianity in the 620s is , at the very least , surprising . |
| 9 | A general strike brought Kosovo virtually to a standstill on Sept. 3 , and schools were also boycotted on what should have been the first day of a new school year . |
| 10 | He should have been the principal suspect . ’ |
| 11 | In the circumstances I should have been the good daughter , studious and uninterested in boyfriends . |
| 12 | ‘ It should have been the best holiday of our lives but it was terrible , ’ said Deborah , also 24 . |
| 13 | ‘ He was the worst leader of what should have been the best cause in the world . ’ |
| 14 | It should have been the best day of my career but it turned into a nightmare . ’ |
| 15 | But surely state intervention should have been the best way of achieving both goals ? |
| 16 | ‘ He should have been the best horse I ever had , if only he 'd had decent health ! ’ from owner David Broome , this was quite some testimonial to the abilities of the brilliant grey show-jumper , Phoenix Park . |
| 17 | This was the winner against Chesterfield scored by Simon Brain after 12 minutes and this should have been the second goal . |
| 18 | HER first job should have been the greatest break in teenager Patricia Knox 's young life . |
| 19 | As usual , pace dominated the bowling , both in the Cup and in the A team series , and it was only fitting that Kenneth Benjamin should have been the latest addition to the Test attack . |
| 20 | Secondly , though the net price obtained by the owner of land should have been the same irrespective of whether the body to whom he sold it was private or public , some owners might have been unwilling to sell to the commission . |
| 21 | And then the person doing the raffle the person in the door should have been the same . |
| 22 | What is remarkable is that the initiative here was taken by the High Anglican clergy , who should have been the natural allies of the Stuart monarchy , and who had staunchly defended James 's title to the throne during the Exclusion Crisis . |
| 23 | She should have been the original ‘ It ’ girl , Clara Bow , but the staff , not for the last time , got it wrong , and put the more vampish Theda Bara on the cover instead . |
| 24 | No should have been the fourteenth of January . |
| 25 | He should have been the last person to be killed . |
| 26 | Can not the right hon. Gentleman accept that the Para battalions should have been the last to be cut , and that , if cuts must be made , they should be made on the basis of operational effectiveness , not political expediency ? |
| 27 | The problem for the Labour Party , of course , was that playing this propaganda card was always likely to backfire since its natural constituency should have been the very groups it was attacking . |
| 28 | As Webster goes on to point out , when study of the cuneiform records revealed that the Babylonian shabbatum ( full-moon day ) also fell on the fourteenth ( or fifteenth ) day of the month , we were presented with another survival of what must have been the primary meaning of the Hebrew term shabbath . |
| 29 | Must have been the thirties . |
| 30 | I must have been the greatest bore ever , and it 's a wonder that those I inflicted my views upon did n't rebel . |