Example sentences of "[conj] that [pers pn] should [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is , it is unclear whether what is being maintained is that our conception of effects is of unnecessitated events or that we should change it to that . |
| 2 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | The alternatives are that it should promote competition , per se , or that it should operate with fairly broadly defined public interest criteria . |
| 5 | No one suggests , certainly not I , that the nation state has properties which are eternal or that it should attribute to itself values which are timeless . |
| 6 | I do not suppose that the ultimate mental component of the universe is some spooky , all-embracing mind that is more real than flesh-and-blood people , nor that we should treat the state or community as a real person with a distinct interest or point of view or even welfare of its own , nor that we can ask the range of questions about a state 's principles — for example whether it accepted them freely or was misled or misunderstands them — that we can ask about aspects of a real person 's moral life . |
| 7 | This does not imply that existing defectives should be done away with , nor that we should condemn the decision of a couple , whose foetus is at risk , that to have a retarded baby would be preferable to having none at all . |
| 8 | The division of work would be that Scott would have ‘ ( subject to its conformity with internal arrangements ) the general command of the external design , and Wyatt would have ‘ the more especial direction of the interior ’ , except that they should work jointly on certain interiors ‘ of a more public nature such as public halls staircases corridors and what may be called the state apartments ’ . |
| 9 | There are no special considerations regarding ruggedness of the terminals , except that they should withstand the use which is to be expected in a busy department . |
| 10 | Better that Aretha Franklin had not been born than that we should endure a drop more of this acid rain of spittle ! |
| 11 | It is far more important that the owners of the company , the shareholders , be given the choice of whether they want to invest in , let us say , a bank , an agricultural business , a food business , or a retail chain , than that we should build our business in different fields , unless we can demonstrate a high degree of mutual reinforcement from such an exercise . |
| 12 | But because it is a writer who is giving us this , and a writer at the beginning of his career , what more natural than that we should see him as writing his way out of all this , as ‘ getting it out of his system ’ as we say , clearing the ground for work that will enact triumphantly his escape , his liberation , his hope . |
| 13 | There is nothing more important than that we should stick up for the system that we have inherited down the ages , and that still has so much to offer the people of our country . " |
| 14 | Nothing is more important than that we should take down the barriers — like National Insurance and pensions — which stand in the way of new employment and job mobility . |
| 15 | She deserved better than that they should grow into thugs , and they ultimately let her down by disappointing her dream of two perfect boys . |
| 16 | Finding that their efforts are doomed to failure , what more natural than that they should cause the company to execute a floating charge in their favour to secure the loans so that if anything is left , after the claims of the prior chargees are satisfied , they take it rather than the unsecured creditors ? |
| 17 | Rachel had been , apparently , more relieved that Phoebe should be an unmarried mother than that she should have to have Jim as a sson-in-law . |
| 18 | I loved him ; what more natural than that I should want to give him the chance to love me back ? |
| 19 | Oh it was more than that I should think . |
| 20 | In the absence of truly definitive knowledge about Jesus , it seems to us more likely , more probable , more in accord with our experience of humanity , that a man should have been married and tried to regain his rightful throne than that he should have been born of a virgin , walked on water and risen from his grave . |
| 21 | What was more natural than that he should come to see his cousin at his place of work ? |
| 22 | Better that she should suffer his anger and displeasure than that he should fall into the clutches of the lord of Parfois . |
| 23 | What more natural than that he should gravitate towards the Communist Party ? |
| 24 | All of us desire nothing more than that you should take hold of your life again … more freely exercise your will . |
| 25 | There is a famous passage in which he invites us to acknowledge that it would be better that a world of which no one would ever be conscious should contain beautiful objects than that it should contain ugly objects . |
| 26 | If it is readily intelligible so much the better ; but it is far more important that it should yield its meaning accurately than that it should yield it on first reading , and the Legal draftsman can not afford to give much attention , if any , to euphony or literary elegance … . |
| 27 | If it is readily intelligible , so much the better ; but it is far more important that it should yield its meaning accurately than that it should yield it on first reading , and legal draftsmen can not afford to give much attention , if any , to euphony or literary elegance . |
| 28 | Instead , he proposes that the unit used should be the ‘ tone-group ’ , defined in terms of rhythm and pitch movements , and that we should distinguish between ‘ major ’ and ‘ minor ’ tone-groups . |
| 29 | So , er , in terms of composite twenty seven , it 's a very simple resolution , and it 's basically saying we should be supporting the er demands of the er campaign for pension fund democracy and the charter , and that we should abandon the committee takes those on , those demands , and er , we should be campaigning for that very very important issue , which is affecting increasingly millions of people up and down this country , not just the p the er the Maxwell pensioners . |
| 30 | These two assumptions are : that our main questions should be about how individual mental states relate to individual neural events ; and that we should view the mind primarily as something which represents reality . |