Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where he found the energy — Anyway , this poor child , only nineteen she was ( he should 've been ashamed of himself and him a man of forty ) — if she 'd only come to me at the start ! |
| 2 | It should have been cooler in the hills , but if anything , Lindsey thought drowsily , the heat was becoming even more intense with barely a breeze to relieve it . |
| 3 | The G M B's got a long record of joining forces with others which has proved to be successful , but if we 're gon na be honest , it 's always been recognized that we would be the predominant union and yes Apex members we should have been honest with you at the time of merger , because it 's quite clear you was gon na lose your identity to at least to some extent and we should have been honest about that . |
| 4 | " I should have been honest with that child this morning . " |
| 5 | The G M B's got a long record of joining forces with others which has proved to be successful , but if we 're gon na be honest , it 's always been recognized that we would be the predominant union and yes Apex members we should have been honest with you at the time of merger , because it 's quite clear you was gon na lose your identity to at least to some extent and we should have been honest about that . |
| 6 | Yet it should have been better for , needing only to hit the 18th green with a sand wedge he went into a bunker , failed to get up and down and ended with a bogey five . |
| 7 | The SSFA said the cash flow problems of the salmon farmers inside the fishing and harvesting exclusion zone should have been relieved by the £1 million bridging fund set up by the Scottish Office . |
| 8 | Mind you , if they had Lloyd Allen as a client , they should have been used to anything . |
| 9 | By mid 1994 every person in the Company should have been involved with an important and meaningful piece of TOP improvement activity . |
| 10 | Several needed help from lifeboat crews , who say they should have been involved in the safety planning of the event , and man found clinging to the moorings at the Woodside landing stage and was taken to hospital . |
| 11 | The pursuers then concluded a contract for the purchase of the house but subsequently raised an action of damages against the defenders , based on negligence , in which they averred that there were many patent defects in the house which should have been apparent to surveyors of ordinary competence exercising reasonable care . |
| 12 | In particular , it should have been apparent from an early stage that the railway would prove totally inadequate to deal with the demand generated in the Isle of Dogs , especially by the Canary Wharf project . |
| 13 | me patient should have the right sort of symptoms and should have been subject to some stressful emotional experience before the onset of the illness . |
| 14 | She was too young to be away from home ; he should have been sure of her company for a few more years yet . |
| 15 | If you had done so , the inappropriateness of someone of your age and standing addressing him as ‘ William ’ should have been self-evident to you . ’ |
| 16 | She held the sleeping baby in her arms but the scene , which should have been one of contentment , was marred by her appearance . |
| 17 | Or a prissy tech pedant , who should have been one of my father 's scribes . ’ |
| 18 | Disturbed that the English were at odds with a nation that should have been one of its natural religious allies , Cromwell brought about a rapid end to the Dutch War , and during the peace negotiations he even proposed that in the interests of their common religion the English and Dutch republics should merge to form one united Protestant state . |
| 19 | He was third , but only 3000 behind the winner and almost put in the Liberal in what should have been one of the safest Conservative seats in the country . |
| 20 | Lions teams have always included a ‘ risk ’ or two , and Elwood should have been one of them in place of Stuart Barnes , who can be too unpredictable when the going gets tough . |
| 21 | This day should have been one of the best days of her life , the start of her search . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't have any argument with the players who have received wild-card entries but I do feel I should have been one of them . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't have any argument with the players who have received wild-card entries but I do feel I should have been one of them . |
| 24 | A working week of over a hundred hours should have been ruinous for the libido , looking back . |
| 25 | This revelation represented a fundamental flaw in the BRAC programme , since BRAC 's plan of introducing appropriate technology to the people of Bangladesh required that the lobon-gur solution should have been available to all who needed it with little difficulty ( the first criterion given at the beginning of Chapter 4 ) . |
| 26 | The questions involved did not relate to the guilt or innocence of the defendants but whether they had been wrongfully deprived of material which should have been available to them in preparing for the trial and for use at the trial if relevant . |
| 27 | Secondly , if the objective of the study of Giaffer et al was to ascertain whether a particular form of nitrogen source ( amino acid v whole protein ) had a primary beneficial effect , both formula diets should have been equivalent in carbohydrate and fat composition , and in fact the amount of fat administered was 15 times higher in the polymeric than in the elemental diet . |
| 28 | The latter might well have suffered from an increase in continentality of climate following regression , but it has not unreasonably been assumed by most palaeontologists that a planktonic group such as the globigerinid foraminifera should have been indifferent to what was happening to epicontinental seas . |
| 29 | No doubt she should have been alarmed at this thought but she remained excited by it . |
| 30 | Finally , probably the most decisive factor of all is whether both parties were properly advised legally , and equally skilled technically and commercially , so that they should have been capable of adequately assessing the risks and rewards they were undertaking in the transactions and of producing a contract document which properly reflected this . |