Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There should have been a yellow one too but the bulb had gone . |
| 32 | When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible . |
| 33 | What should have been a triumphant closing ceremony turned into an embarrassing muddle , so much so that Polish television switched to a football match . |
| 34 | In principle , there should have been a considerable democratic element . |
| 35 | WHEN HUNDREDS of nuclear engineers came together for what should have been a festive shindig last week , there was universal gloom . |
| 36 | But there 's a big difference in my view between the sort of regular abuse and assaults on staff in a Casualty Department and somebody walking into what should have been a locked ward on a children 's unit in a hospital at two o'clock in the morning . |
| 37 | If that was where Harry had died , there should have been a big area quarantined off with tape . |
| 38 | ‘ You should have been a big game hunter , Maggie . ’ |
| 39 | I would have thought it should have been a national effort . |
| 40 | There should have been a large timber column but this had been removed for some reason many years ago and led to the roof sagging some 4 ’ . |
| 41 | They sat at a table covered with a checked tablecloth and tiles clicked underfoot ( Mummy brought back the tiles from Spain ) , and there was a big , brick fireplace with horse-brasses and copper pans and the boiler in the middle for the central heating , where there should have been a huge fire . |
| 42 | This should have been a deliberate policy on your part . |
| 43 | This should have been a happy and holy occasion but the expressions on the faces looking up at him — Denis , Hana , Uncle Mick , Carmella , now pale and shaken , even poor Joey — told him more than any words how empty the action was . |
| 44 | James Pegg should have been a happy man , for he was with Alfred and unaccompanied by Alice . |
| 45 | At first glance , Wilson should have been a superlative practitioner of Cabinet government . |
| 46 | An inquiry 's begun into the death of a parachutist during what should have been a routine public display . |
| 47 | So came into existence the ‘ Harborough Arm ’ a branch that should have been a main line . |
| 48 | Maeve Sherlock , the NUS president , said yesterday : ‘ We are unhappy at the outcome of the PCA investigation and remain convinced there should have been a full independent inquiry . |
| 49 | There should have been a full house at Manchester for the Davis Cup , there was n't . |
| 50 | In what should have been a single sketch here protracted over two debilitating hours the only observable success was in managing to incite a young child in the audience to enquire with regular insistence : ‘ What 's going on Mum ? ’ |
| 51 | To historians of the left the new popular culture represented a fatal and quite decisive fragmentation of what should have been a working-class consciousness . |
| 52 | Harold Laski said Beatrice Webb should have been a medieval abbess , where her organising ability would have gained a spiritual dimension . |
| 53 | Only high spot from what should have been a red letter day was the terrific £300 raised for the local Hartlepool hospice . |
| 54 | The superimposition of massive conventional forces on what should have been an atomic strategy , made no sense to Churchill , who appreciated that financial pressures would reduce rather than increase the number of divisions that Britain could contribute to Western European defence . |
| 55 | The cost of the entire operation was competitive with glass bottles and , moreover , the package and contents could be dropped without damage or loss and therefore should have been an attractive proposition to supermarkets and bottling plants alike . |
| 56 | The European Court held the refusal was a breach of his right to a private and family life , since the file was the major record of his childhood , and there should have been an independent body which could override an improper refusal of consent . |
| 57 | Aesop must have been a keen observer of natural animal rhythms . |
| 58 | He must have been a strong contender for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar but then again , the history of the academy awards is littered with the words ‘ if only … ’ |
| 59 | Little is known of the inhabitants of the old manor house with its interesting architecture in the centre of the village , but the oddly named Hanging Grimston is within the parish , and here the Bouchier family lived in what must have been a grand castle with cottages nearby , and owned much land . |
| 60 | ‘ It must have been a terrible shock . |