Example sentences of "[pron] should be [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Pumblechook seemed to agree with my sister that I should be punished as much as possible , even when eating , and so for breakfast next morning he gave me a large piece of bread with very little butter , and a cup of warm water with very little milk , and insisted on checking my learning . |
| 2 | I wanted to tell her that I had told Syl I would n't marry him , but I did n't , for I felt that once I had told Lili she would somehow prevent me from recanting and that , freed from Syl , I should be bound even tighter to my mother . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I 'm not sure that I should be raking up all this , but in a way it is related to Luke 's attitude towards Elise , and you did ask … |
| 4 | Better still , but perhaps I should be acting not entertaining . |
| 5 | the aerobics you sho I should be feeling absolutely knackered ! |
| 6 | Just pinch them off and plant in seed compost , which should be kept barely moist in a bright , warm place . |
| 7 | Notice first that I have implied a tradeoff , which should be made more explicit and later will be explored in additional detail . |
| 8 | There is an opportunity for a subsequent improvement , if the system is freed from the worst effects of political interference , which should be made more explicit . |
| 9 | Two small additional areas near the river were planted with varieties of willow amongst which were Salix Alba , the familiar white willow which presents a great mound of silver-backed leaves which shimmer and flash in the wind ; Salix Caprea , the goat or pussy willow ; and Salix Daphnoides , the violet willow whose vigorous upright shoots are deep purple in colour and are covered by a white bloom and which should be pruned hard each or every other year to promote new growth . |
| 10 | Ingres hopes to be early with SQL92 , the specifications for which should be settled finally next month , and is also working with Microsoft Corp and the SQL Access Group on Open Database Connectivity ( ODBC ) compliance . |
| 11 | Some Planning Act covenants also include a provision for the tenant to provide security for compliance with planning permission conditions , which should be resisted wherever possible . |
| 12 | Apart from that , my only quarrel with the production of the book is a number of printing errors , which should be picked up prior to a second edition . |
| 13 | now that is wrong because nobody should be committed so much to the hilt that they ca n't have a family |
| 14 | And there were some heartless people who maintained that he was a public-spirited individual who should be given as much help as possible in his self-appointed mission . |
| 15 | Part-time working does not affect your right to study leave , nor does it mean that you should be given only those jobs which no one else wants . |
| 16 | ‘ But they think you should be getting far better . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You 're wasting our time and yours when you should be hunting down those IRA swine . ’ |
| 18 | Things are happening — the fat stores are depleting , the body is looking better already and you should be feeling more energetic . |
| 19 | Fuck me I think you get about a grand interest a week from a million , so living off 500quid a week ai nt too bad ( and you should be working so that s extra ) . |
| 20 | It seemed absolutely pathetic that , at her relatively young age , she should be feeling so tired and weary at the end of each day . |
| 21 | You can do it to some extent through the public sector , but one of the worrying things I find about the present situation with this growth of generations , the clamp down on building — less than a hundred thousand houses , I think , completed in the U K last year — my estimate is that we should be building about two hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ We are bound to face criticism from both sides , from people saying we should be locking up thousands of juvenile offenders and throwing away the key and others throwing up their hands and saying they are like the old approved schools and will be universities of crime . ’ |
| 23 | I agree Gazza 's a brilliant player , who would be an asset for any club , but I really do n't think we should be getting too excited about this — how could we possibly afford him ? |
| 24 | I mean I wonder if we should be spending this much money on another wedding type advertising until we 've really had time to evaluate what we 're getting from the bridal magazine . |
| 25 | We agreed that we should be considered rather callous to go on with our usual life when we were reading of 3,000 to 4,000 casualties a day … |
| 26 | Erm the purpose of the two columns , and I think we 've missed this out , is , is that we should be identifying how many w w whether we 're using er going to produce drawings by hand or by CAD . |
| 27 | And I think it 's I would give very great weight to this partic these two criteria put together and and I think they should be made more explicit sir . |
| 28 | Third , they should be based wherever possible on existing boundaries in order to maintain continuity and build upon traditional loyalties . |
| 29 | They should be picking up other clues about each other too : the accents they speak with , the way they are dressed , the kind of hairstyles they have all tell us something about people we meet . |
| 30 | Maybe there should be a rule if Irish and English people had children they should be brought up Irish — the way the Catholic Church used to insist on the children of Catholics and Protestants being brought up Catholic . |