Example sentences of "should [verb] been the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning ships from the Falklands brought much detail about the campaign that should have been the stuff of correspondent 's reports in a democratic society . |
| 2 | Were you there when you , ee , you talking about that , there were two mistakes on that one er er doorbell went and it was n't telephone , it should have been the telephone ! |
| 3 | Fleischmann and Pons worried that the numbers of neutrons that they appeared to be seeing were billions less than should have been the case if their heat data were correct and due to fusion . |
| 4 | Apart from having limited time to try and spread the gospel about the tournament in its magnificent venue , if , as should have happened , Jimmy Connors had played , if John McEnroe had survived his first round , if Pat Cash had looked better prepared and if , as certainly should have been the case , Jeremy Bates had taken the opportunity he had to upset Wimbledon quarter finalist , Thierry Champion , the whole picture may have looked so different . |
| 5 | I should have been the hero of the game but I will always be known as the one who lost it . |
| 6 | Steve Cauthen , who rode Balla Cove , had earlier taken the other feature race on the card , the Godolphin Stakes , on Spritsail — a victory that should have been the subject of a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 7 | If a company chairman described trading as ‘ bad ’ in his address to the annual general meeting , and then later told an analyst it was ‘ very bad ’ , and if the analyst then advised clients to sell , would that be inside information which should have been the subject of a further statement to the Stock Exchange ? |
| 8 | Even in Wales , where gloom and doom should have been the order of the next year or two , the clubs have set off in a style which has brought , instead , a nervous smile or two . |
| 9 | It gave the name of a contact point to follow up information , although some of us had reservations about whether it should have been the person who was actually quoted in the press release |
| 10 | The first 16-bit generation was won hands-down by MS-DOS with Macintosh System in second place — and winning a moral victory by setting the agenda for what should have been the 32-bit generation but in effect became the second 16-bit generation , which seems to have been won by Microsoft Windows , even though for the majority , MS-DOS is all most people want or use . |
| 11 | The weekend should have been the danger period , not a Tuesday , a nothing day of the week when nobody did anything other than look back wistfully on the pleasures behind them and look forward to the unformed pleasures ahead . |
| 12 | The Tour chief was concerned that negative headlines had been carried when the golf of David Gilford , the tournament winner , and the joint runners-up , Jamie Spence and Stephen Ames , should have been the news . |
| 13 | That should have been the end of it . |
| 14 | He got rid of me and that should have been the end of it . |
| 15 | It would seem from the pleadings to which I have referred that that should have been the end of the case . |
| 16 | That should have been the end of it but it most certainly was not . |
| 17 | But Lévi-Strauss rather objects to the ethnocentrism of Sartre 's argument , for it means that ‘ man ’ , the constituents of whom should have been the result and product of Sartre 's anthropology , is defined in advance in terms of the dialectic as historical humanity , with history effectively restricted to societies of the West . |
| 18 | It is no accident that Schickelgruber , the failed artist who became Hitler , should have been the son of a petty official and have spent his ambitions at the butt end of Viennese snobbery . |
| 19 | Yet nothing could be more surprising than that Sir Frederick Lugard should have been the father of Indirect Rule , a system of administration supposedly distinguished by the judicious delegation of authority . |
| 20 | It should have been the signal for a resounding runaway triumph in the second half especially after a Niall Quinn header also hit the woodwork . |
| 21 | 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 . |