Example sentences of "[conj] that it should [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 The alternatives are that it should promote competition , per se , or that it should operate with fairly broadly defined public interest criteria .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 … .
5 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 .
6 Other than that , it was important that she should look interesting so that even if what she said was dull the audience would not be bored ; that the outfit should take account of the long range view — jewellery or other small items were irrelevant — and that it should draw attention to her face .
7 The expectation that the countryside should conform to a certain idea of the picturesque and that it should present an unchanging spectacle to the appreciative onlooker has , for example , led many newcomers to be bitterly critical of the changes wrought by modern farming methods .
8 Does the Minister recall telling the House that the four criteria for the reform of Sunday trading were that it should be practicable , enforceable , and acceptable to the country and that it should command the support of the House ?
9 They say the jail 's facilities are inadequate , and that it should stay closed .
10 There was wide support for the continuation of the scheme , in the light of the endorsements provided by the Baldwin and Hill research project , and that it should operate on a demand-led basis .
11 But attempts to convince us that the eating of meat and fish is an evil invasion of the inalienable rights of animals and that it should cease forthwith are a sham .
12 Second , I would agree with Tony Prosser ( Prosser , 1982 ) that any theory should be based on an analysis which makes it possible to describe and explain existing social relations and the operation of state institutions ; and that it should provide the means for an effective critique of the latter and point the way for their future development .
13 As the Legal Aid scheme was given to the Law Society to administer in 1949 and it had also been responsible for the voluntary and statutory schemes in 1959 it was quite logical that the Law Society should also run the new advice scheme and that it should use the local and regional structure which already existed to administer the legal aid scheme .
14 It meets , and even surpasses , all the criteria laid down by the World Cup committee after the inaugural event in 1987 ; that there should be healthy commercial environment , that the event should be well supported and that it should take place in only one country .
15 There has been some difference of opinion as to what that case decided , but there is no dispute that the court held that the postponement of the consultation process with the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge until three years after sentence was unlawful , and that it should take place as soon as possible after conviction .
16 Gqozo subsequently proposed that his territory should similarly form a republic with the Eastern Cape and that it should have an " inalienable right to terminate its ties with the central government at any time " .
17 It was agreed that the revision of the treaty would be completed by the year 's end and that it should come into force before the next summit .
18 The report suggested that all the powers relevant to school government should be formally vested in the LEA , but that it should delegate these as far as possible to the governing body of each school , who should in turn allow as much discretion as possible to the head .
19 It seems that the children have been too easily persuaded to sell their land and houses , for what matters in a drama like this is not that the children should act out what actually happened in real life , but that it should open up and help them understand the dilemmas of industrialisation .
20 Secondly , it was recognised that existing services were often vital but that they were unable to meet all the needs of this special group of elderly people and that different types of service might be required ; it was never intended that the project should deprive people of existing services and substitute others for them , but that it should bridge gaps between those already available , whether statutory , voluntary or private .
21 The point of all this is not that the entire women 's liberation movement should support the Wages for Housework demand ( as at present formulated ) — a pretty remote possibility — but that it should recognise — as WfH does — the importance of feminism 's attitude to housewives .
22 The thrust of the recommendations made by Greenbaum et al ( 1977 ) is that NAEP ‘ is not a short-term research or decision-making tool ’ , but that it should become ‘ a useful long-term census ’ .
23 In theory he had been prepared for it all along , but that it should happen now , right now …
24 But that it should happen to me !
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