Example sentences of "that it should [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst paying lip service to the concepts , the CEGB remained unconvinced that it should bother seriously with either conservation or the renewable sources of energy , especially if it meant abandoning Hinkley C. It was up to the government to decide whether to provide incentives for energy efficiency , whilst the renewables must wait until pilot projects showed their worth . |
| 2 | Robert Hooke urges in his Micrographia that ‘ the science of nature has already too long been made only a work of the brain and fancy : It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things . ’ |
| 3 | The Supreme Soviet on Feb. 14 nevertheless supported a compromise proposal by Gorbachev that it should return to the question , and on Feb. 27 it approved in principle ( by 347 votes to 24 , with 43 abstentions ) a draft bill on creating the new presidency , and agreed to convene an extraordinary Congress . |
| 4 | If the utilitarian looks at it in this way , he takes it as a criterion for an acceptable use of ethical words , and way of understanding moral judgement , that it should give them a factual content which is the only one which it is sensible to expect people in general to endorse as a sensible guide to acceptable conduct . |
| 5 | The programme received financial assistance from UNICEF and it was intended that it should perform three basic tasks : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | During the course of the visit it was reported that US Secretary of State James Baker had made it known that the USA rejected recent suggestions that it should alter its deployment of nuclear weapons currently sited in South Korea as an inducement to North Korea to allow international inspection . |
| 8 | The alternatives are that it should promote competition , per se , or that it should operate with fairly broadly defined public interest criteria . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Making war in the twelfth century was rather like going on strike in the twentieth : it was a method of exerting economic and financial pressure on your opponent — it was not intended that it should end in his death . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Better that it should end like this , when justice was not only done but manifestly seen by all to be done . |
| 13 | As her eyes widened he added , ‘ Perhaps now you can understand the reason why I bought it and why it is so important to me that it should succeed ? ’ |
| 14 | The minimum requirement for us to recognize an object as an animal or plant is that it should succeed in making a living of some sort ( more precisely that it , or at least some members of its kind , should live long enough to reproduce ) . |
| 15 | The British Government had proposed to the Council of Europe that it should examine a range of questions including that of service of process abroad , which the United Kingdom had hitherto included in its bilateral civil procedure conventions . |
| 16 | His final recommendation , therefore , was that evaluation should become a continuous process in which all faculties and departments should be involved ; that it should examine teaching and learning in all year groups ; but that it should perhaps be less wide-ranging and more focused than this first effort . |
| 17 | The Court had reached the conclusion that it should quash the indeterminate sentence and substitute a sentence of seven years ' detention . |
| 18 | ( 3 ) That since it could not be said that the jury would inevitably have convicted the defendant if before the trial the defence had been given the statement of the deceased 's husband and the two statements of her sister , if the jury had properly been directed with regard to evidence as to the defendant 's previous good character , and if they had received guidance from the judge on their problem concerning the evidence , the proviso to section 14(1) of the Judicature ( Appellate Jurisdiction ) Act could not be applied to uphold the conviction ; and that , accordingly , the case would be remitted to the Court of Appeal of Jamaica with the direction that it should quash the conviction and either enter a verdict of acquittal or order a new trial , whichever it considered proper in the interests of justice ( post , p. 169C–D , G–H ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She moistened her lips , then said , ‘ I ca n't see that it should matter to you . ’ |
| 21 | Even the earliest study of its effectiveness stressed the view that it should improve the degree of accountability . |
| 22 | This is n't intended as any particular message , but we are now one of the weightiest shares in the F T S E index and be we believe that it should improve the market liquidity of the shares . |
| 23 | It was the weakness of humanity that it should disguise as strength — as sense and discretion and neighbourly feeling — an inability to recognise the more deplorable aspects of behaviour . |
| 24 | Our endorsement of Tory macro-economic policy , and acceptance that it should aim for no more than monetary stability , meant we were unable to offer them a convincing route to full employment or economic recovery . |
| 25 | After several years of policy development , the RHA came to the conclusion that it should aim for the closure of all the six mental hospitals , rather than just two . |
| 26 | Yet , paradoxically , despite a failure to agree about what education should aim for , what it should actually do , everyone seems to be certain both that it should do something , and that it is not doing it . |
| 27 | The General Assembly was available and equipped to fulfil this role , and it was therefore logical that it should do so . |
| 28 | That it should do so is important to the well-being of the Principality as a whole . |
| 29 | He has tried unsuccessfully to persuade government that it should devote a fixed proportion of either GDP or the defence budget ( which has some logic as an idea , since the Meteorological Office is funded through the Ministry of Defence ) to research into global warming ; and failure in that respect has reinforced his view that governments across the world find inexpensive words preferable to expensive actions . |
| 30 | The report by the inquiry inspector , Sir Frank Layfield , into the Sizewell PWR had recommended that it should go ahead . |