Example sentences of "[v-ing] [that] [pers pn] should [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst that may be interesting ( and I am not suggesting that we should refrain totally from such activity ) , something more is needed if we are really to approach the Earth and the earth spirit with any depth and with any hope of useful results . |
| 2 | The Chief Officer said quite clearly last er last time that the decisions were decisions for members and members came up with a view last time that we should not remove that whole time crew from St Albans which was the one firm decision that was made at the last meeting and what Councillor is now suggesting that we should take out those twenty eight whole time fire fighters and then try and give us ten back if we 're lucky . |
| 3 | The result of this was a surprise telephone call from Jenny herself suggesting that we should call a meeting . |
| 4 | In the next example , the teacher could have developed this child 's thinking by suggesting that they should find out if the boat would still float when carrying a smaller stone or if a larger boat could carry the stone they had . |
| 5 | I am not suggesting that you should collapse in a soggy heap if you bang your head or shut your finger in the door ; but suppressing tears when you are really unhappy is suppressing the grief itself and this can be harmful in several ways : |
| 6 | For instance , Skipper was not impressed with my suggesting that he should stand still while I got on and wait until I asked before moving off . |
| 7 | Are you suggesting that he should replace McAllister because they are the same type of player ? |
| 8 | Axelrod had already begun to think in ESS terms , but I felt that this tendency was so important that I wrote to him suggesting that he should get in touch with W. D. Hamilton , who was then , though Axelrod did n't know it , in a different department of the same university , the University of Michigan . |
| 9 | Are you suggesting that I should ignore them ? |
| 10 | ‘ Are you suggesting that I should do it for you ? ’ she queried sweetly . |
| 11 | Each time I asked , you fobbed me off , and now you 're suggesting that I should fix my belief in you without some kind of hook to hang it on . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're suggesting that I should run away from this woman ? ’ |
| 13 | Celia Hooper-seated opposite him in just such a chair and situation , so that they resembled two bookends without intervening books — was suggesting that she should draw up a basic plan for the annual deanery party , which happened at Loxford Rectory after Easter , a get-together for all the priests of the deanery , eight of them , and their wives . |
| 14 | On an evening when he had broken the silence with one of his quietist cracks she would feel a sense of remorse and insufficiency descending on her , and hours later find herself in the larder , eating the remains of whatever was under the meat sieve and weeping that she should do something so self-defeating and stupid . |
| 15 | Yugoslav Macedonians had also been flown back from Athens under a new regulation demanding that they should possess US$1,000 on entry to Greece . |
| 16 | Smith is embarrassed about the award , believing that it should have gone to Graham Gooch . |
| 17 | Erm we sir had objected to the erm er allocation proposed for of employment land under I five er to Harrogate , er believing that it should have been even more than |
| 18 | Dining in the perfect Jacobean hall of Trinity it was only fitting that we should wear dinner jackets ( Hooray for a touch of elitism ! ) |
| 19 | Nevertheless it is fitting that we should add our tribute to the many that have been made throughout the country . |
| 20 | It is particularly fitting that we should have the debates on education and employment on the same day , because education is a continuing process throughout life upon which employment is heavily dependent . |
| 21 | It was entirely fitting that it should end with a sit-in at the Guildhall by a number of homeless families and with a dispute over the allocation of houses . |
| 22 | Made in the reign of Calixtus , it was obviously seen fitting that it should end the series of pictures of the popes involved in the struggle . |
| 23 | So maybe it was fitting that it should begin here , at Nanking , where DeVore had first slipped the net . |
| 24 | Thereafter only Ward on the final afternoon played with any real confidence and it was fitting that he should score the only century of the tour just before the end of the match . |
| 25 | Besides , it was fitting that he should serve a people who were so obviously more admirable as human beings than himself . |
| 26 | When Dickens 's narrator is left alone in a panelled and smoke-darkened parlour , he acknowledges the influence of the Gothic novel in remarking that he should have ‘ followed the established precedent ’ and ‘ fallen into a fit of musing without delay ’ . |
| 27 | The feeling is growing that we should get our act together smartly if we are not to be left gongless at the end of a less deserving queue . |
| 28 | And in view of the information he had when he went to London for a meeting last Wednesday and that was when he consulted with other people deciding that he should offer a nought percent increase . |
| 29 | When I mentioned Burma , his feeling of satisfaction was obvious , though his sense of integrity had prevented him from deciding that I should go to a country so close to his own heart . |
| 30 | Are you ‘ short-changing yourself by eating junk food , when your inner guidance keeps whispering that you should eat a healthy diet ? |