Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If B 's complaint were that an attempt should have been made to invoke the Gallagher jurisdiction when his appeal was before the House of Lords , then it is long out of time . |
| 2 | Surely arrangements should have been made to allow the Secretary of State to report to the House on the outcome of the consultations and on the advice of his expert , Mr. Roy Stoner of Southampton university , about the objections voiced during the consultation period . |
| 3 | This person should have been made to feel the full weight of the law . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ That 's true , ’ Anne agreed , ‘ but I think he should have been made to suffer for the way others suffered through him . |
| 5 | Order 29 , r 1(3) provides that if the order was injunctive , it should have been served having borne thereon a " penal notice " — see below . |
| 6 | In courteously making a special journey to Beeching 's home to induce him to accept the invitation , Gardiner incurred the Prime Minister 's displeasure : Dr Beeching should have been invited to call on the Lord Chancellor . |
| 7 | As far as toilets were concerned er the the toilets to me were absolutely diabolical , that nobody should have been asked to use them . |
| 8 | Alternatively , it may be suggested that the question was how much the French should have been asked to concede ; and even if the critical time , ( according to Edmund Gullion , ) was ‘ right after the Elysee agreements of March 1949 ’ and for all the complaint that ‘ South-East Asia 's policy has been junked ’ , and dismay at Acheson 's ‘ French captivity , a closer inspection suggests that there may not in fact have been all that much difference in the assumptions upon which different parts of the State Department were operating . |
| 9 | I have seen him as Grimes many times and never without a sense of embarrassment that this finely sensitive singer should have been asked to adopt a vicious role alien to him . |
| 10 | Er I th I think if the honourable member pays attention he will appreciate that the boundaries are the nub of the issue in terms of er electoral systems and the common electoral system to which this country is a signatory in agreeing that that should be where we are er headed , is a principle which I believe that this er commission should have been asked to address , it should have been what was happening er at this time in the history of the European parliament , should have happened long ago but sadly it 's a principle which both Labour and Conservative governments in the past have preferred to ignore frankly for their own electoral benefit . |
| 11 | He did not allow the revolution of 1917 to interfere with his contacts with Russian colleagues and it was appropriate that he should have been asked to supply the inscription for the sword presented by George VI to the people of Stalingrad . |
| 12 | One was that the House of Lords should have been asked to exercise its Gallagher jurisdiction to decide the uncertified points which B had argued before the Court of Appeal . |
| 13 | She felt sure that plans must have been well advanced for the action they intended to take , and she thought that councillors should have been asked to approve the use of emergency guidelines at that time . |
| 14 | Long after Sarella felt they should have been slowing to cross the drawbridge into the courtyard of Castell Rocamar , they went on , the engine purring gently as they continued into the heart of the mountains . |
| 15 | Mark Lawson of the Independent asked him whether he thought Tebbit should have been called to speak . |
| 16 | Neighbours , who reported the man as missing to the local council , say more should have been done to see if he was in need of help . |
| 17 | It believes more should have been done to ease the severity of the jobless situation . |
| 18 | Indeed this is what should have been done to stop the actions of the buffer stock Manager . |
| 19 | ‘ It does n't matter what they said something should have been done to get people out immediately . |
| 20 | In addition , they should have been introduced to communication skills involving questioning , simulation and judgement and opportunities should have been given to prepare the pupils to cope with conflicting evidence in actual historical issues . |
| 21 | Mr Van Leuween described the deportations as premature and argued that more time should have been given to establish whether the voluntary repatriation programme was working . |
| 22 | But India insisted Rhodes should have been given run out when he was on 28 . |
| 23 | By now your heater will have brought the water to temperature and should have been adjusted to ensure that it 's spot on . |
| 24 | They are human , and are acknowledged to be , they can think but they are not to be acknowledged as authoritative , and if their presence demands such acknowledgement , they are bad women who should have been taught to hide or repress such demands . |
| 25 | Doshi feels spin wizard Ian Salisbury should have been selected to go to India with England |
| 26 | For it was the procedures and practices that have been at the very core of racing tradition for generations that were on trial here , and there was little realistic chance that they should have been found wanting . |
| 27 | It seemed to me that he was colder now , disappointed that I should have been found to have anything so hostile as escape equipment in my pockets . |
| 28 | It is arguable that the opportunity should have been taken to deal with this matter by way of criminal penalties . |
| 29 | Never again , because those resources , now being consumed at vast speed in the Gulf , should have been used to stave off world recession , build new infrastructure , encourage better education and training — at least that 's where the UK 's £3 billion or more share of the total cost could have gone . |
| 30 | It was his misfortune to envisage every such encounter as a matter of life and death , though by now he should have been used to anticlimax , and to the survival and tenacity of both parties to fight another day . |