Example sentences of "we should [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Clearly , parents generally must welcome the news that cuddling is not only nice but necessary ; perhaps , however , we should spare a compassionate thought once more for the intellectual mothers of the thirties , whose sufferings as they tried to be ‘ good ’ mothers are now repeated in the knowledge that all their efforts only led them to be ‘ bad ’ mothers : as one of our correspondents added , ‘ Here is Bowlby , still out to make us feel guilty — about our rejection of the children we loved but were not allowed to love . ’
2 Some scientists — and we should add hastily that they are in a small minority — feel that this is mincing words : they feel that by ‘ forever ’ we should mean an infinite number of billions of years rather than a period whose duration can be estimated .
3 To move beyond this inadequate description , Gross ( 1978 ) argued that we should analyse the social characteristics of corporate criminals first by visualizing what qualities these organizational positions demand , and second by considering whether younger corporate officials who preen themselves to fit this image are more likely to succeed in their career .
4 ‘ Why d'yer fink we should knock the ole boy around before we tie 'im up ? ’
5 Admittedly we should compare the average rate of inflation for the whole of 1991 with the previous year .
6 The right hon. Member for Shoreham ( Sir R. Luce ) thinks that we should change the standard spending assessments .
7 We should avoid an exclusive obsession with ‘ secular humanism ’ that sees the problem of modernity only in terms of false ideology .
8 Whether we should discard the traditional framework , and whether review should become akin to appeal , will be considered below .
9 He suggested that in the meantime we should visit the Arussi mountains ; this would enable us to assess our men and , if necessary , change some before we committed ourselves to the Danakil country .
10 Finally , we should contrast the broad correlations between γ Os and elemental abundances with the highly significant correlations observed previously between the Nd values and the concentrations of several major and trace elements for these samples .
11 It puts forward a spurious long term disadvantages as reasons why we should ignore the short term benefits offered to us up to the end of this calendar year .
12 In case it collapses onto me actually we should stand a little bit further away from the building .
13 Realistically we should expect a mixed experience as at the start of all major new programmes .
14 We should expect the mass-selling tabloid press to have a stronger influence on public attitudes and choices than on public information and perceptions .
15 In this sense the steady state may be a poor approximation , and we should study the full equilibrium path .
16 ‘ In time , perhaps , these deaths will be avenged , but the Queen is insistent that we should meet the Scottish envoys . ’
17 There remains the question of how we should view a bacterial species — for example , the Escherichia coli popular with geneticists .
18 In other words we should examine the whole subject , not just one important part of it .
19 I wonder if I could answer that in a in a different way because clearly rather there 's the option , rather than reduction the operational capability which was really the er initiative that had begun in nineteen ninety two , there is the option of course of er adjusting the total numbers and that would er have an overall bearing on the total programme cost but cert because certainly the judgement of the er the chiefs of staff was that er as far as the U K was concerned then we we should retain the operational capability as I explained earlier an n and not decrease it in any significant extent because if we did that then we could end up er with an inferior capability against a potential threat .
20 Was it not you yourself who said we should build a great dam against the floodwaters of Change ? ’
21 The ICAEW Guidance notes dealing with changes in professional appointments ( date 1.85 ) require that we should notify the other accountants that we are undertaking the corporate finance work unless the client gives a valid reason why such notice should not be given .
22 Without wishing to alarm patients , I believe that we should do a comprehensive anonymised HIV seroprevalence study based around the medical practice of individuals recently found to be HIV infected .
23 Perhaps we should do a little bit of matchmaking , ’ she suggested .
24 Now , is it the intention of the people who asked us to take this action that we should just boycott Nestles products , or we should do the whole range of the conglomerate that owns all these people like Rowntrees and Cross and Blackwell , and many other companies as well .
25 We should make a strenuous and united attempt to incorporate in the management of our own institutions some of the features which have given the American schools the high character they enjoy .
26 I think we should make a serious effort to get some progress on this thing . ’
27 He puts great emphasis on the difficulties of prediction , and urges that where there are rules to which people do in fact adhere for the most part , and which help maintain the social stability required for any kind of good to flourish , we are likely to come nearest to doing what is objectively right ( in terms of its actual consequences ) if we also stick to the rules , but that where the rules , however useful they would be if generally obeyed , are widely flouted we should make a direct judgement of what will have the best consequences .
28 Yes , yes , well I am too , and that we shall pay the penalty later on if we do n't get with us and I feel that erm , as difficult as the budget is , as tight as it is with reduction etcetera , I feel that we should make a positive funding for prevention or something , or er , because I think unless we do start somewhere , and quickly , we are going to pay the penalty at the end of the and so we 've got to make a date , you 've got to make a year , and if you wait and say and well we have n't got it now , well next year we shall say we have n't got it now , and the next year we 'll say we have n't got it now .
29 As Ferri ( 1967 , p. 289 ) , one of the founder-members , put it : ‘ The positivist physio-psychology has completely destroyed the belief in free choice or moral liberty , in which it demonstrates we should recognize a pure illusion of subjective psychological observation . ’
30 The G M B should welcome this move which will give elected regional representatives a direction say in issues affecting their region and we should recognize the successful efforts made by Labour in the House of Commons to ensure the democratic accountability of these representatives .
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