Example sentences of "should [vb infin] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as these will ‘ drown ’ if cut below water level , so sufficient length should remain to allow for a fluctuating water level . |
| 2 | Given these competing interests , the best he could propose was that the two governments should try to come to a prior understanding concerning each other 's needs and thereby avoid the formal commitments which the US Joint Chiefs feared might paralyse American forces at the start of hostilities . |
| 3 | The failure of Britain 's membership of the European Monetary System should have led to a complete rethink of the Maastricht agreement to move to a single currency . |
| 4 | If at some stage we entered into a single currency , we should have to deal with a different matter . |
| 5 | That in ten years she should have risen from a frightened , defiant seventeen-year-old to this . |
| 6 | It was fitting , in the 50th anniversary year of the Battle of Britain , that the Association should have engaged in a full range of activities aimed at meeting its responsibilities towards former members of the Royal Air Force , both men and women . |
| 7 | It was ironic that while most of the men I knew seemed inclined to some form of polygamy , Syl , now that he was getting older and had less energy , should have decided on a monogamous relationship with me . |
| 8 | It may seem a depressing conclusion to Anselm 's struggle for the primacy that it should have ended in a futile resort to forgery . |
| 9 | It should have come as a complete surprise , but the man swayed , taking Ross 's fist on his shoulder . |
| 10 | It was unfortunate for Virgin that in applying for ‘ exemption ’ to fly into America they should have walked into a simmering row between the American and British governments over the British refusal to allow PanAm to operate a third frequency across the Atlantic . |