Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] a [noun sg] should " in BNC.
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| 1 | That such a man should be placed in the role of ruler over God 's chosen people was deemed a curse — an affliction visited by God upon His people , a punishment for transgression both past and present . |
| 2 | And why it was that such a man should want to fight against the Seven . |
| 3 | He feels very strongly that such a case should in future be dealt with by assessors in an open court . |
| 4 | That such a king should play bo-peep |
| 5 | That such a monument should now require a damp course is a suitably bizarre commentary on human folly . |
| 6 | 8.38 to 8.40 ) , that , should ( as the Act has done by the previous section ) the currency of a licence be extended to three years , it was desirable that a licensing board should have some form of sanction against the licence-holder where the premises were being misconducted , or where their suitability had deteriorated , and that such a sanction should be the power to suspend a licence . |
| 7 | If this decision were to be upheld , the appellants stand to lose their liberty and , in my judgment , it would not be right that such a result should occur when the evidence is excluded only on the basis of the rather stricter rules laid down in Ladd v. Marshall . |
| 8 | How curious , then , that such a phrase should suggest something illegal . |
| 9 | This definition would make central to pragmatics a notion of appropriateness or felicity : ( 14 ) Pragmatics is the study of the ability of language users to pair sentences with the contexts in which they would be appropriate Such a definition should have a nice ring to it , from the point of view of those who wish to place pragmatics on a par with other aspects of linguistic inquiry . |
| 10 | If it is at all possible a teacher should preview the place to be visited , though this may not always be possible with places at a distance . |