Example sentences of "should be [v-ing] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shut her bedroom door , knowing fate had decreed that the book she was reading should be resting in the sitting-room , leaving her with nothing to do but make her bed , sit on it , lie on it , unmake it , jump on it , push it round the floor — there were limits to what you could do with a bed , and it was the only piece of furniture in the room . |
| 2 | this action is impossible if you either a ) do not hold the latch tool correctly ( the handle of the tool should be resting in the palm of your hand with the thumb uppermost and on top of the latch area of the tool ) or b ) if you do not apply some downward pressure to the knitted fabric with your free hand . |
| 3 | ‘ Execution of his duty ’ means that he should be acting in the protection of life and property . |
| 4 | She did remember that a word sounding like ‘ sewers ’ was uttered , and it puzzled her to think why anyone should be ringing in the middle of the night to enquire about the state of the sewers . |
| 5 | By mid-1986 some 10 or 12 rigs should be operating in the South China Sea and by then expenditure on Chinese offshore oil could be running at around $1 billion per year . |
| 6 | Establishing trends from the past is of enormous help in determining precisely where we are at present and where we should be going in the future . |
| 7 | Only a month ago we were told by the Engineering Council that technology lessons under the national curriculum were a ‘ farce ’ — and teachers did n't have a clue what they should be doing in the classroom . |
| 8 | Erm it would be extremely difficult t for them not to occupy our thoughts , I 'm not sure whether your question is is inviting me to consider what the European Community should be doing in the context of Bosnia . |
| 9 | It 's proper that we should be asking in the context of these proposals for boundary changes , affected as they are by the decision of the er first of all the French national assembly and now the French government to make life difficult for the other member states as far as the ratification of these proposals are concerned , it 's right that we should be asking what is the position of the British government in relation to these matters . |
| 10 | Pontypool .. 34 Swansea ..... 6 AT 37 , and with more than 500 club games , 41 caps , and three British Lions tours behind him , Graham Price should be basking in the glory of one of Welsh rugby 's greatest careers . |
| 11 | And Portsmouth reckon they should be playing in the premiership instead of Town . |