Example sentences of "[pron] should [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one should forget the disastrous collapse of Greece 's infrastructure during World War Two and the bitter Civil War that followed . |
| 2 | No-one should underestimate the enormous gain in freedom for millions who had been trapped in the oppression of communist dictatorships , but the speed with which the liberation of eastern Europe occurred was so stunning that it raised what we can now see to have been unrealistic expectations of the transition to peace , democracy , and prosperity . |
| 3 | If there is only one adult resident , a discount of 25 per cent can be claimed ( s79 ) ; it is important therefore that if husband and wife cease to live together each of them should notify the local authority that separation has taken place so as to end joint liability and for the remaining resident spouse to claim the discount ( if applicable ) . |
| 4 | France has shown some sympathy ; an independent nuclear power , it has never accepted the notion that Russians and Americans between them should run the nuclear affairs of the world , let alone the post-Soviet world . |
| 5 | That he heard I was so tremendously successful in the Gothic style that if he let me alone I should Gothicize the whole country , &c. , &c. , & c . |
| 6 | But there is no issue for which simply to deduce from socially prescribed principles combined with factual propositions would be anything but a mechanical conformity ; I know why I should do the prescribed thing only if , at least at my moments of fullest awareness from other viewpoints , I feel moved to do so . |
| 7 | As a Magistrate I think I should advise the Noble Lord , Lord Tebbit , that most crime is indeed local based , despite the prevalence of bicycles in this upwardly mobile society of ours . |
| 8 | Department numbers and how you spend it so you must have to fill this card in I should think The only the only department is the cosmetics that 's not we 'll ask when we get there . |
| 9 | and then it 's the semi-finals so obviously I should think the top four clubs will go into the knock out . |
| 10 | Well I should think the pink one look er hairbands apparently . |
| 11 | Anyway , if a sanitary inspector came in here I should think the whole place would be condemned . ’ |
| 12 | ’ I should watch the Black Magic if I were you , Miss Lightbody , ’ I joked , noticing the familiar colouring of the box peeping from the top of one of her carrier bags . |
| 13 | If this is difficult , I should eat the easy bit after Reggane . ’ |
| 14 | I stammered something about not understanding cricket , totally incredulous that anyone should suppose I did understand it , or that I should regard the English side as ‘ we ’ . |
| 15 | Before we allow him to intrude on to my turf too far , I should set the whole business in its correct credit context . |
| 16 | I believed I should consider the Anglican Church not fully Christian in that it discriminated against women ; though I wanted to worship there . |
| 17 | Having regard to some of the evidence before me , I should notice the following towards the bottom of pp. 649–650 : |
| 18 | ‘ Personally I should find the endless cups of tea one of the more trying aspects of church life , ’ said Gervase . |
| 19 | Or I should say the wee imp ran into me . |
| 20 | well I should say the like er |
| 21 | And erm I should say the average family was around about four , four mark , four and five children mark . |
| 22 | Well Street was really I should say the only industrial part of Caldmore or Palfry , cos there was Harveys had a factory up there and there was a little bit of factory work in Street , there was actually a small factory on the corner of Street and Lane , but the factory area was mostly in . |
| 23 | Your remarks on the Masefieldian lines go to the root of the matter — I should say the bad Masefieldian lines for in some points one would not in the least be ashamed to have learned from him … |
| 24 | It is important that I should ask the hon. Gentleman carefully to consider what he has just said about my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , who set out the legal position as a Law Officer . |
| 25 | I am not confident about how I should take the hon. Gentleman 's concluding remarks , but I shall bear with equanimity what I suspect may be a poisoned chalice . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ A few years ago Graham Taylor , then at Aston Villa , rang and said I should join the old organisation . |
| 27 | But I certainly did n't think , as I went into the trees , that I should have the apparent answer within another hundred yards . |
| 28 | Once when I was at school he told me that I should spend the entire summer working on improving my passing off my left hand and my kicking off my left foot . |
| 29 | ‘ No , just trying to decide whether I should take you riding in a horse-drawn carriage through Dyrhaven tomorrow , or whether I should spend the whole day making love to you . ’ |
| 30 | Now I see that I know nothing , only I must not say so for I should lose the good opinion of my neighbours and they would no longer trust me with money for my experiments . |