Example sentences of "should [not/n't] [vb infin] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been quietly considering if we too should not break with philology as practised till now and its educational perspective . |
| 2 | Stevenson is also anxious that we should not dismiss with contempt the more completely non-rational aspects of ethical discussion in which we affect each other 's ethical attitudes by the use of emotive language or influence each other 's emotions in other ways which do not require the mediation of rationally based changes in belief . |
| 3 | ‘ The understanding is that the auctioneer should not part with possession of them ( the goods ) to the purchaser except against payment of the price ; or if the auctioneer should part with them without receiving payment , he is responsible to the vendor for the price … . |
| 4 | They do not on the whole deny a male bias in conventional English , but they pretend to object to change on purely linguistic grounds — for instance that one should not tamper with grammar , that nonsexist forms are unaesthetic or even , as a last resort , that willed changes in language destroy freedom of thought and usher in totalitarianism . |
| 5 | Such a ‘ rule ’ should not conflict with authority and precedent which require , essentially , only that the person selected be acceptable to the party in question . |
| 6 | ‘ No , we should n't play with money on a Sunday . |
| 7 | Nature intended us to be as we are , and we should n't tamper with reproduction . |