Example sentences of "should [vb infin] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 2 | If true love should knock on the door , Ego will coolly slip the bolt and pretend to be out . |
| 3 | Following a two-day hearing , on 13 December the judge upheld the submission and directed that the indictment should remain on the file not to be proceeded with without the leave of the Crown Court or the Court of Appeal . |
| 4 | In that same debate my hon. Friend said : ’ The proposal that weapon sales be banned completely to people under the age of 16 should stay on the agenda . |
| 5 | The sociological implications of this view , that racism produces ethnic disadvantage , are that attention should focus on the history and mode of operation of racism rather than the ways in which ethnic minorities do or do not adapt to British society . |
| 6 | However , the implication is that intervention should focus on the prevention or early treatment of the disorder . |
| 7 | In the second case the discussion should focus on the cost to the business , should this be £4,000 or £5,000 . |
| 8 | — if there is limited scope to do this in the pension scheme the spotlight should focus on the adequacy of the company 's keyman life cover . |
| 9 | Such studies should focus on the workload in comparable practices — for example , practices in high and low deprivation areas with similar levels of commitment . |
| 10 | Action should focus on the training needs of all new recruits and continually developing and improving the skills of existing employees . |
| 11 | Thus , taking the phrase which Bolinger uses as an example , it is certainly not the properties inherent in being a man that are strengthened when one utters a sentence such as : ( 19 ) walking into the bakery , I met the very man The same conclusion is indicated by the fact that it is perfectly satisfactory to use very in conjunction with a word like one ( as Bolinger himself observes ) , and yet this does not express any property which can be intensified , except singularity which is of course intensified by a quite different word ; note the following : ( 20 ) that is the very one ( 21 ) the supermarket did n't have a single one Actually , when very operates within a noun phrase it clearly acts as an intensifier of exactitude , not of quantity , so it is entirely natural that it should focus on the article ; that is , it does indeed qualify a property , but that property is , approximately , the notion " recognizable by my audience " , as expressed in the definite article . |
| 12 | First , with talk of deregulation , laissez-faire , greater competition etc , it seems appropriate that we should focus on the role of economic analysis , in particular , the way in which economics can be used to shape law and public policy . |
| 13 | Chairman , less than one year ago since the report prepared for this committee recommending that work should commence on the preparation of the new bypass scheme of the town of Brandon , and since that date considerable progress has been made . |
| 14 | That Flaubert , still damp from skewering boys in Cairo bath-houses , should fall on the name of Nabokov 's seducer of underage American girlhood ? |
| 15 | If the price has been fixed on the basis that a particular fact is correct , the acquirer will agree that the risk of it not being so , even if no one could have known , should fall on the seller , since the seller will have been paid a price which assumed that the warranty was correct ; although no doubt the seller will point out that the business is being bought as a going concern and a business can not be carried on without risk . |
| 16 | This may well be resisted by the landlord on the basis that the risk of unlet property should fall on the tenant . |
| 17 | In a related development , the US administration proposed in April that the second round of START ( due to commence after the conclusion of the START 1 talks ) should concentrate on the elimination of land-based strategic nuclear missiles carrying multiple warheads ( MIRVs ) . |
| 18 | Another view expressed was that the stock of money per se was not of prime importance and should not be the prime target of the authorities ; rather the authorities should concentrate on the liquidity of the whole system . |
| 19 | It was also decided that they should concentrate on the contract market . |
| 20 | The decision was not well received by those Americans who believed that their allies should concentrate on the provision of conventional forces . |
| 21 | You should concentrate on the cost of finance , so the decision depends on the following : |
| 22 | With Samson we have to decide whether we should concentrate on the time of its circulation in the early 1670s or whether we should attempt to determine a precise date of composition . |
| 23 | Barrows argued that geography should concentrate on the study of the association between man and environment , it should concentrate on themes which lead towards synthesis with an economic regional geography occupying a central place , but that specialized branches , including geomorphology , climatology and biogeography should be separated from the parent subject . |
| 24 | Erm logic suggests surely that that erm one should concentrate on the adequacy of the phasing er the existing phasing mechanism , and the words within policy H one and the guidance that the county is giving to the to the district authorities , in how they should phase the release of the committed land . |
| 25 | One stipulation of Lend-Lease agreements signed in 1941–2 was that Britain should concentrate on the production of fighter and bomber aircraft for the war effort ; its transport needs would be met by American aircraft . |
| 26 | It involves making judgements about how people will and should behave on the basis of gender stereotypes believed to be determined by their sex . |
| 27 | Her Department should act on the recommendation that local officers should be able to top up that gap for claimants if no other resources are available . |
| 28 | The teacher is the professional , so the teacher should report on the child 's progress . |
| 29 | The central elements of the code of practice include the division of responsibilities at the head of the company ; sufficient non-executive directors to carry significant weight in the board 's decisions ; a schedule of key matters reserved for full board decision ; full disclosure of directors ' total emoluments , with separate figures for salary and performance-related pay ; audit committees composed solely of non-executives to scrutinise figures and appoint auditors ; the board should report on the effectiveness of the company 's system of internal controls ; the directors should report that the business is a going concern , and auditors report on this statement . |
| 30 | Directors should report on the effectiveness of their system of internal financial control and auditors should report on this statement . |