Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [noun prp] should " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a thousand times better that England should be a Prussian colony . |
| 2 | It was not enough that Phoebe should turn up looking like a manual worker — ( 'But , for God 's sake , Maggie , I am a manual worker' ) — and wearing a button on her overalls which said ‘ This facility is under threat from rate-capping , ’ which made boys on buses make obscene jokes ; she also had to take on the maths teacher . |
| 3 | Bad enough that Richard should have annexed his girl friend , without being left with Richard 's boring wife … |
| 4 | Better perhaps that Benedict should not return — though God send nothing had happened to him , for she could bear anything but that ! — for that his lost inheritance , through her fault , must prevent his ever regarding her with anything but hatred . |
| 5 | And so that Ven should know how truly sorry she was , she held on to him with both arms and tried to pull him to her . |
| 6 | ‘ Just as you like , ’ said Burden , turning his face away so that Wexford should not see him smile . |
| 7 | And Fergus had made that final , overwhelming sacrifice so that Ireland should be safe , and so that the Wolfqueen should regain Tara . |
| 8 | I turned away , I remember , so that Enid should not see my face , and thought of his arms holding me , and his hands in my hair and his mouth … oh , such a melting , a melting in my stomach . |
| 9 | It crossed Rain 's mind that Eliot might have planned all along that Harbury should help but that Shildon had proposed her instead . |
| 10 | Unanimity was less marked in the scramble for office after Asquith 's departure ; " the three Cs " , Curzon , Chamberlain and Cecil , managed to keep official party interests to the fore by ensuring that Curzon rather than Carson should join the war cabinet — disloyalty might be useful but it should not be seen to pay . |
| 11 | It was n't right that Sendei should just be left here . |
| 12 | It is not that Lee should in some way be forbidden to talk about white , male canonical authors , but a book such as this ought to suggest a greater awareness of the very issues it is summarising . |
| 13 | It must be observed that the point of the mother 's stories was not that Daphne should embrace her sister shepherdesses in a sapphic idyll , but , very simply , that she should not allow herself to be seduced . |
| 14 | The intention behind Mrs Whitehouse 's actions was not that Bogdanov should be punished , but that the values and beliefs espoused by the NVALA should be seen to be supported , to be successfully and , above all , publicly defended from attack . |
| 15 | Not that Arsenal should be singled out as sole instigators of the ill-feeling at White Hart Lane . |
| 16 | Most shares were hit by the Cabinet split over whether Britain should opt in or out of European economic union . |
| 17 | We then had a rousing Le Corsaire pas de deux , with Elvira Tarasov and Igor Zelensky dancing just as Ruzimatov should have done in the Diana and Actaeon , with technical bravura but putting the choreography and music first , and themselves only as the servants of dance as an art . |
| 18 | Maisie had gone round to the passenger door of the Volkswagen and was standing , one hand poised to open it as soon as Henry should unlock it . |
| 19 | In addition , a majority of de Gaulle 's own political supporters , including his prime minister Debré , believed fervently that Algeria should remain part of France . |
| 20 | He agreed to do homage so long as it was spelt out that Aquitaine should belong to him and his heirs for ever . |
| 21 | It was obvious now that Isobel should be the person to talk to Anna about this job in Pricewell 's . |
| 22 | It seems incredible to us today that Carey should have had such difficulty in convincing christians of the necessity of sharing the Gospel with ‘ the heathen ’ , but this is because we take for granted the radical influence his views have had upon our modern view of mission . |
| 23 | Franca , now gathered into Marcus 's attempt , was saying in her mind , Oh let it be all right , let it be all right , not sure what she meant by this , whether that Marcus should revive Patrick , or whether simply that Marcus should ‘ get away ’ without some positive disgrace , some catastrophe or shameful happening . |
| 24 | I feel very strongly that Salford should end this free giving away of degrees , but give them to the deserved students only — us . |
| 25 | That the European parliament in fact led by Conservative members of the European parliament very often on this issue had argued strongly that Brussels should be a single meeting place for the European parliament . |
| 26 | The suggestions were that Bernie Ecclestone , as vice-president of Promotional Affairs for FISA , was keen Mansell should stay in F1 , particularly if Senna should take a year off . |
| 27 | However , a free-kick from Nevin nearly brought them a goal immediately before Pearce should have given Forest the lead . |
| 28 | All the more surprising then that Jacob should at once comply and give his name , but that is what he does . |
| 29 | In December 1990 the Dalai Lama renounced his previous insistence on complete separation for Tibet and proposed instead that Tibet should enter into a " loose confederation " with China . |
| 30 | Not only was it a vast amount of money for the fledgling state to raise , by many Israeli officials felt passionately that Israel should not begin its life be seeking to extend its reach ad influence through such obvious corruption . |