Example sentences of "[prep] what [pron] should be " in BNC.
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| 1 | below what it should be and that we are asking single-person households , on average , to subsidise households of two or more persons in the payment of the council tax . |
| 2 | So let's have a look at an idea of what we should be looking at , should we . |
| 3 | The yellow-jacketed policeman shuffled uneasily from foot to foot , uncertain of what they should be doing now . |
| 4 | Furthermore , despite Hurd 's fervent belief that security arrangements must originate from within the Arab world itself , his own hints of what they should be ( which no Arab leader is likely to ignore ) seem to run counter to the practical realities of the world in which they are to be applied . |
| 5 | The signs of the coefficients on t and P t are correct , but those on σ and k are the opposite of what they should be . |
| 6 | But once at the School , in his own place and with his daily occupation , he began to think again of this dream woman , and added to the old notion of what she should be , which Diana had personified , was an idea of her as his rescuer , as someone who would save him and make him whole again . |
| 7 | People were always taking him in hand , hoping to reform him , to make him conform to their own self-centred ideal of what he should be . |
| 8 | ‘ Other lads given a trial at 19 by a big club like Monaco might think they 've cracked it — but Lambert knows we are simply giving him a glimpse of what he should be aiming for . |
| 9 | But in spite of a pretty widespread discontent with education as it is , there is no clear view of what it should be . |
| 10 | All the indications are that man 's efforts successfully to modify and refine the product of the evolutionary process by the introduction of civilisation , have been almost destroyed by the tangled mass of religious absurdity and rubbish which he has allowed to enter into it , and reduce it to but a tragic travesty of what it should be . |
| 11 | Basically , however , the difference between these and other areas lies in the attitude to new development , either whether it should be permitted at all ( it often is not ) or , if it is , of what it should be constructed — the materials used generally have to be traditional , for example , stone in the Lake District . |
| 12 | We begin to change the role to include our expectations of what it should be . |
| 13 | That choice should not be limited to ’ the way we have always done it ’ or by the organisation 's view of what it should be delivering . |
| 14 | So the amount available to her to spend will fall short of what it should be by the amount of that tax . |
| 15 | She gave him what was left of the already denuded packet : only two hundred pounds , it was true , and nothing like what it should be . |
| 16 | I personally have much to be grateful for to those linguists who have gone on ahead and erected signposts , and I hope the examples I have used today illustrate my conviction that , notwithstanding its theoretical manoeuverings and terminological idiosyncrasies , an awareness of the questions and findings of linguistic research can help turn our language study into what it should be , a voyage of discovery . |
| 17 | Getting on with what you should be doing that can only see a few people doing that who are actually getting on with what they should have been doing while you are waiting . |
| 18 | He 's seriously deficient in what he should be learning cos he should know that at least . |
| 19 | For for senior citizens do you I mean do you think the the the rent up to what they should be or not ? |
| 20 | For instance , what the Harlequins are doing with Troy Coker at the moment may be legal but it bears no relation to what the law should be or to what it should be seen to be . |
| 21 | It is a long-term , essential and immediate job to bring industrial capacity back to what it should be . |
| 22 | Why not get people that is activists and Oldham might well the branch for Oldham you 've got Dave from Stockport they 've got a MP retiring , they 're getting on now , you 've had , we 've had your time now , for God 's sake go you 've been there long enough , let's get the activists in , let's get G M B members and let's get this parliament back to what it should be and not the Tories . |
| 23 | It needed an effort to turn to Jill , to force her mind back to what she should be doing . |
| 24 | There was , and perhaps needed to be , very little variation from an understood pattern — which nobody needed to prescribe , simply because everybody agreed on what it should be . |
| 25 | There 's no crackles and it 's expanding well and it peaks three eight two which is okay but it 's quite down on what it should be . |
| 26 | The amount that you are assessed to pay is based on what you should be able to afford to take out as a loan . |
| 27 | Once this happens , it is no longer God who is over us , judging us by his Word , but we who are over God , using our god-concepts to justify what we are doing and to make judgements on what he should be doing . |
| 28 | They are , in brief , hard-working and somewhat stressed ; feel dissatisfied with the job they are doing ( or at least bits of it ) ; confused about what they should be doing but wanting to change in the direction of greater impact and relevance of what they do ; have no clear idea how to go about it ; do not feel optimistic about things getting better ; are worried about the amount of emotional energy the job takes up ; and mostly do the best they can , try not to think about it all too much , and hang on till the holidays . |
| 29 | He felt impotent , uncertain about what he should be doing , what was expected of him . |
| 30 | There were lessons all around me about what I should be doing , where I should be going , but I chose to ignore them . |