Example sentences of "should [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should perhaps first say that I was tripping . ’ |
| 2 | Why else should so many be high out of sight of the congregation , only sharply visible to us when using a telephoto lens ? |
| 3 | A few quotations from his correspondence to friends during the years before its appearance will serve to introduce the main interests and traits in question : " Three things are my relaxations , but infrequent ones : my Schopenhauer , Schumann 's music , and solitary walks " ( from 1866 ) ; " It is only too natural that … concentrating on a particular field of knowledge all day long should somewhat blunt one 's untrammelled receptivity and attack the philosophic sense at its root . |
| 4 | She can see no reason why , at the very least , serious threats of this kind should not negative consent for the purpose of the law of rape . |
| 5 | As my hon. and learned Friend has accepted the closure of Bir Zeit is part of the systematic infringement of the Geneva convention by Israel which has been going on for years , should not a more robust approach therefore be taken , both by our Government and by the European Community , and should not economic measures at some stage be taken in relation to Israel to prevent the continuation of such unacceptable violations of human rights and of the Geneva convention ? |
| 6 | As said in Re W , the Court of Appeal should not intefere unless satisfied that he was wrong in law . |
| 7 | Should not anti-theft devices be one of them ? |
| 8 | She quoted to me an odd and illuminating point , that if he wanted to take a bath when he was with friends , he could not see why they should not all be in the bath together , boys and girls , black and white . |
| 9 | This was chiefly at the behest of the Home Office who , according to Dorothy Hardisty , ‘ urged that in their own interest [ Jewish children ] should not all be placed in cities like London or Leeds where they would form a conspicuous Jewish enclave ’ . |
| 10 | But beauties should not all rush at once . |
| 11 | However , even if it is accepted that treaties do not perform a single function and should not all be subject to the same rules , there remains the threshold question of how treaties are best conceptualised and categorised . |
| 12 | Some youngsters have protested , claiming that they should not all ‘ be tarred with the same brush ’ . |
| 13 | If there is indeed the same relativism in physics and in morals , should not one individual 's choice in his particular situation be as unimpugnably right or wrong as his measurements of distance and duration ? |
| 14 | Should not one of the objectives of our privatisation programme be to give British Coal , or whoever the private company may be , the freedom to produce electricity from its coal and to sell that electricity through the national grid ? |
| 15 | The authors should not that , contrary to their assertion , there is a large literature on the use of zeolites to amend soils , including evidence of useful caesium binding . |
| 16 | Should not that proviso apply to anybody serving on any committee ? |
| 17 | Should not that include brothers and sisters as well ? |
| 18 | Not to sleep but simply to think , freely and unobserved , without the burden of her mother 's solicitude , the obligation not only to look cheerful but to go on repeating how well she felt so that Amabel — always unnerved by silence — should not weary her further by growing alarmed . |
| 19 | There seems little reason why the proportion of women entering HE should not equal that of men in the future , particularly as research from Scotland ( Raffe , 1984 ; Willms and Kerr , 1986 ; McPherson and Willms , 1987 ) shows that in Scotland women are not outperforming men in all SCE school examination . |
| 20 | One was that television should not first be introduced to Dar es Salaam and only later to other areas . |
| 21 | ‘ It would be inconceivable , in the opinion of the Court , that Article 6(1) should describe in detail the procedural guarantees afforded to parties in a pending law suit and should not first protect that which alone makes it in fact possible to benefit from such guarantees , that is access to a court . |
| 22 | Should not such people bear their share of the burden ? |
| 23 | Even if he seeks to deploy fewer warheads per boat than the maximum possible , why should not other countries follow his example and say that that is also their ideal of a minimum deterrent ? |
| 24 | It is scarcely possible , in the face of this legislation , to maintain that ‘ rights ’ are a privilege with which none but human beings can be invested ; for if some animals are already included within the pale of protection , why should not more and more be so included in the future ? ( 1922 : 5 ) |
| 25 | The right hon. Gentleman should not misrepresent what the Government have said and are doing . |
| 26 | Should not coal-fired power stations , which could be competitive and which the duopoly rejects , be offered for sale so that continuing competition can develop ? |
| 27 | As the European Court delays are providing a valuable premium for some people and holding up injunctive relief in this country , should not further representations be made to the European Court to deal with the problem as an injunctive matter so that certainty is quickly returned to the courts of this country ? |
| 28 | And should not those in Sponging Houses , who squandered what properly belonged to their creditors , be removed to the actual prison ? |
| 29 | Should not those figures be considered alongside the 352 million lost days which have been engineered by the Government since 1979 ? |
| 30 | The attempt by the Court of Appeal to prevent Touvier from coming to trial may succeed but the verdict has led to an alarming rhetorical question posed in Le Monde : ‘ Should not these crimes be judged , not in the name of a single people but of the whole of humanity … and should it not be in Strasbourg , under European jurisdiction and not in Paris or Lyon that they be judged ? ’ |