Example sentences of "that it should [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Hooke urges in his Micrographia that ‘ the science of nature has already too long been made only a work of the brain and fancy : It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things . ’ |
| 2 | The Supreme Soviet on Feb. 14 nevertheless supported a compromise proposal by Gorbachev that it should return to the question , and on Feb. 27 it approved in principle ( by 347 votes to 24 , with 43 abstentions ) a draft bill on creating the new presidency , and agreed to convene an extraordinary Congress . |
| 3 | After several years of policy development , the RHA came to the conclusion that it should aim for the closure of all the six mental hospitals , rather than just two . |
| 4 | reaffirmed the high landscape value of the appeal site and its determination that it should remain in the Green Belt . |
| 5 | We are determined that Iraq should comply with the terms of the Gulf War cease-fire agreement , and in particular that it should co-operate with the UN in dismantling its weapons of mass destruction . |
| 6 | If the project appraisal is flawed , or if the project only marginally exceeds the minimum rate of return specified by the organization , it is better that it should fail at the approval stage than be implemented with the risk of subsequent failure . |
| 7 | Sequent determined some months ago that it should expand into the MP/PC superserver business based around NT ( UX No 392 ) . |
| 8 | locally er there is no as far as I know no , no requirement that it should happen except the desire of the Home Secretary to strengthen his control or his influence in , in these bodies . |
| 9 | Is it not erm , does the baby get all what that it should get from the mother ? |
| 10 | Their relationship was n't built on solid foundations , so it was hardly surprising , was it , that it should collapse at the first sign of trouble ? |
| 11 | Thus , taking the phrase which Bolinger uses as an example , it is certainly not the properties inherent in being a man that are strengthened when one utters a sentence such as : ( 19 ) walking into the bakery , I met the very man The same conclusion is indicated by the fact that it is perfectly satisfactory to use very in conjunction with a word like one ( as Bolinger himself observes ) , and yet this does not express any property which can be intensified , except singularity which is of course intensified by a quite different word ; note the following : ( 20 ) that is the very one ( 21 ) the supermarket did n't have a single one Actually , when very operates within a noun phrase it clearly acts as an intensifier of exactitude , not of quantity , so it is entirely natural that it should focus on the article ; that is , it does indeed qualify a property , but that property is , approximately , the notion " recognizable by my audience " , as expressed in the definite article . |
| 12 | The government has to get money from somewhere , and it is logical that it should look at the whole area of VAT . |