Example sentences of "should not be [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , however , no statistical reason why these tests should not be employed on such data , although clearly the probability of any result being due to chance is more likely to be lower as sample size increases . |
| 2 | The language of rights , legitimate expectations or privileges should not be elevated to any higher status . |
| 3 | However , a work group has social and psychological properties and the work organisation should not be arranged in such a way that the advantages of technological improvements are offset by employee resistance and unrest . |
| 4 | Considerable indignation was expressed by one constable when recalling an incident at which a colleague was assigned by a headmaster to merely the non-examination classes , feeling that their work in schools should not be marginalized in this way . |
| 5 | We should not be misled by any temptation to assume that what we are dealing with here is the familiar disposition of many words , mentioned above , to vary in their referential effect according to the standard considered relevant for the type of the noun ; as if , to take the last sentence in ( 34 ) it was simply a matter of adjusting our standard of what counts as old from the range suitable for schools to the smaller one which is appropriate to individual human beings . |
| 6 | I would say that if you 're sixty years old and looking for meaning in life you should not be listening to this kind of music . |
| 7 | The normal rule of stocking , 1″ of fish to 12sq.in. of water surface , should not be applied to these large fish . |
| 8 | Can he give us any reason why the same principle should not be applied to any part of the country that does not happen to be his own ? |
| 9 | And , if we do , there are no external reasons why the average lifespan of all human beings should not be extended to many hundreds of years . |
| 10 | Whereas public ignorance of corporate crime is understandable , this latitude should not be extended to those criminologists who argue that our professional efforts should be directed , as they have been traditionally , towards street crimes rather than suite crimes . |
| 11 | The Soviet message to the Delhi Non-Aligned Summit in 1983 stressed recent initiatives by the Socialist countries ‘ proposing that the zones of responsibility of NATO and the Warsaw Treaty should not be extended to any new parts of the world ’ . |
| 12 | " One can not help but wonder why , one day , when the EC has a very strong political union , nuclear arms should not be transferred to this authority , " he said . |
| 13 | They have come to the conclusion that , from the point of view of the welfare of the children , it is more important to the children that they should not be separated from each other than that either child should go to one of the grandmothers . |
| 14 | They may feel that certain laws should not be made at all … |
| 15 | Too much should not be made of this . |
| 16 | Too much should not be made of this polarization . |
| 17 | This rule seems to be a hangover from the time when the only remedies available under Ord. 53 were the prerogative orders : these are not available against contractual bodies , but there seems no good reason of policy or principle why a declaration or injunction should not be sought against such a body under Ord. 53 . |
| 18 | According to a second account , Locke 's ‘ substratum ’ should not be related to such abstract logical questions about the difference between ‘ things ’ and ‘ properties ’ . |
| 19 | It should not be assumed from these statements that they do not move at all-they can be quite active at high tide by night but that they remain within the same general area of shore . |
| 20 | This conclusion should not be affected by any view we take about whether the use of memory constitutes a re-examination of the original sensation or a mere inspection of how that sensation now seems to us to have been . |
| 21 | The general opinion amongst Central Authorities is that a request should not be rejected on this ground ; and this appears to accord with the views expressed in the House of Lords in the Westinghouse case . |
| 22 | As the date of abolition ( April 1986 ) drew nearer , activists in London were determined that the momentum should not be lost in this area of local government work . |
| 23 | And remember , flues should not be interconnected with any other room . |
| 24 | Is there any reason why the same debate , or a debate on the same question , should not be conducted at more or less the same time in a great number of different places ? |
| 25 | They should not be couched in such a way as to encourage speculation or lead to further inquiry — or indeed arouse any other form of interest . |
| 26 | He stressed he was still some way from reaching a clear view and that he was anxious the options should not be narrowed at this stage . |
| 27 | The prosecution abandoned plans to call Mrs Taylor as a witness after the judge , Mr Justice Latham , said families of the victims should not be exposed to any more trauma than was absolutely necessary . |
| 28 | Although Figure 4 looks like a sociogram it should not be treated as such . |
| 29 | We emphasise once again that , although we can regularly identify such structural markers , their appearance in discourse should not be treated in any way as ‘ rule-governed ’ . |
| 30 | For example , one mathematical subject should not be followed by another . |