Example sentences of "should [verb] been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It should have been Bells with the number of ringers who 've been playing ’ . |
| 2 | Er and we thought that there should have been initials against every item that was ticked . |
| 3 | The very idea of working from home should have been anathema to me . |
| 4 | The fact that it is at least possible that Molla Yegan and Fahreddin Acemi held office contemporaneously for part of their respective appointments is of some help in trying to establish the identity of de la Broquière 's " grand caliph " ; for although Molla Yegan should have been Mufti in 1433 if his Muftilik and that of Fahreddin Acemi are viewed as successive rather than contemporaneous , de la Broquière 's statement applies rather better to Fahreddin Acemi than to Molla Yegan for several reasons . |
| 5 | We have been told there should have been clips at the back to keep it in place . |
| 6 | ACCIDENT & General has confirmed that the rate it quoted for last week 's travel insurance table which appeared on page 23 of the Money-Go-Round section of the newspaper should have been £17.90 for a two-week holiday in Europe rather than £14.70 . |
| 7 | This observation , made by the village case study in 1984 , should have been cause for concern , since four years previously it had been demonstrated that the village practitioners in Bangladesh were willing and capable of being trained in the use and administration of oral rehydration solutions . |
| 8 | Fight as they did to keep the canoe on course they were driven westward of Castiglione ( near Sidi Ferruch ) when they should have been east of this port . |
| 9 | The shoes , handmade to last a life-time , should have been symbols of polite security , but there was no security . |
| 10 | The improved neutron detector was finally ready ‘ later in the year ’ and ‘ within a few weeks ’ the results were positive enough that they formed the basis of the paper that was sent for publication on 23 March 1989 , the paper that should have been sibling to that of Fleischmann and Pons . |