Example sentences of "[that] they should [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the terms of reference given to the committee were to see how A levels could be improved , in order that they should remain as ‘ standards of excellence ’ . |
| 2 | Is the Home Secretary aware that his decision of 2 May put that Zairean teacher in an extremely dangerous and vulnerable position , and that it is not the first time that his Department has deported people in the face of a court decision that they should remain in this country ? |
| 3 | Where students esteem that there is better provision to be found in , for example , a local Tertiary College , they will vote with their feet and the argument that they should remain in a Catholic Sixth Form , solely because it is Catholic , holds little sway . |
| 4 | Baldwin at once began to talk about the walk they would have the following morning , and suggested that they should eschew the subject of coal for the evening . |
| 5 | John Hayward had , in fact , first suggested in 1935 that they should set up house together , but Eliot chose not to do so . |
| 6 | Years was it four or five ? — had passed since Rabbi Moishe first suggested that they should set up their own settlement in Palestine . |
| 7 | Many people make wills and leave instructions about things that are important to them because they have assessed the risk and feel that they should anticipate the future and their possible demise . |
| 8 | Chandler , on the other hand , used them and delighted in them , and because of this a tradition has grown up that they should appear in every private-eye tale . |
| 9 | There were , of course , various other schemes for social improvement , and at the beginning of 1940 Ezra Pound suggested to Eliot that they should combine forces with George Santayana and collaborate on a book which would describe the conditions for " The Ideal University " . |
| 10 | Half of the non-executives thought that they should choose the chairman ; unsurprisingly , only a quarter of chief executives agreed . |
| 11 | What seems to have happened is that they have internalised the negative images that are attributed to black people and do not feel that they should identify with them . |
| 12 | It is essential that these rights be such as to allow citizens some autonomy in their private lives as non-citizens , but also that they should enable citizens to have an effective input into the national political system and into their local communities . |
| 13 | She deserved better than that they should grow into thugs , and they ultimately let her down by disappointing her dream of two perfect boys . |
| 14 | BRITISH diplomats and contract workers appeared determined to stay in Libya last night despite warnings from mullahs and the mob that they should leave for their own safety . |
| 15 | About half of the people detained under Immigration Act powers in general do not wish to challenge the decision that they should leave but they need help winding up their affairs here , contacting their friends and families and pressing the Home Office to process their cases quickly so that they do not have to spend unnecessarily long periods in prison . |
| 16 | What was significant about the Banstead strategy in this respect was that offering continued inpatient care to ‘ decantees ’ was presented by psychiatrists as a protection of patients ' rights , particularly the right to stay in hospital where , they argued , ‘ many resist any suggestion that they should leave the hospital and also become more ill when such suggestions are made … to press such a matter against the patients ’ will would certainly not be in their best interests ' . |
| 17 | Lippmann 's view , like J. S. Mill 's , was that the electors have the right to choose their rulers or government , but beyond that they should leave government to govern without interference or pressure : " Their duty is to fill the office and not to direct the office-holder. " ( p. 46 ) A not dissimilar view was put forward by Bernard Crick , who said of referenda , the power to recall representatives and other devices for popular intervention : " They forget that the first business of government is to govern … |
| 18 | It was much too painful for her and Pat decided that they should leave . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes of course , ’ said Taliesin , his eyes going also to the motionless figure , because it was certainly unthinkable that they should leave Fergus like this , in the middle of a dark old mansion at the heart of an ancient forest . |
| 20 | It was unthinkable that they should leave Fenella here at the mercy of the giants . |
| 21 | Will she send out a message to those who oppose smoking and belong to the brigade who say , ’ Do as I say and as I instruct you , ’ to the effect that they should leave ordinary people to get on with the job of smoking and supporting the economy ? |
| 22 | As landlords ' solicitors become ever wary that they should leave nothing to chance , the number of individual tenant 's covenants appear to be increasing with heavyweight commercial leases quite often having comfortably in excess of 30 covenants and not far short of 50 . |
| 23 | Someone suggested to his parents that they should leave , but no one had time to show them out . |
| 24 | He says that they should leave that sort of thing to the police . |
| 25 | He says that they should leave it as it is . |
| 26 | the sums in the premiums trust fund , it 's a very simple answer my Lord to notify now in the same way the commission suggested that they should notify some ten years ago |
| 27 | And it was asking too much of readers that they should insulate Eliot the editor and editorialist from Eliot the poet ; so that they should read ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ without feeling that they were being nudged into the Roman Catholic or the Anglo-Catholic church — |
| 28 | At this conference , the King gave the three party leaders a virtual instruction that they should form a National Government under MacDonald 's leadership . |
| 29 | One particular matter of concern would be the election of directors by particular constituencies ( shareholders on the one hand and employees on the other ) ; if it were intended that they should represent those constituencies , this would conflict with the general principle of company law that all directors should look to the interests of the company as a whole . |
| 30 | This was the major design feature of the new units — that they should represent the competences , knowledge , skills and understanding expected by the major users of an award . |