Example sentences of "should [vb infin] [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implication in all the sexually discriminatory immigration laws ( continued long after the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Act in 1975 ) is that women are slaves and chattels in their communities , and the government sees no reason why it should treat them as anything else . |
| 2 | ‘ What the hell did you expect , that I should treat you as some kind of equal ? |
| 3 | You should treat it as a straightforward job of work and get on with it . |
| 4 | If an applicant is uncertain as to his plans after marriage , the entry clearance officer should treat it as an application for settlement , and consider whether all the requirements for settlement are satisfied . |
| 5 | So when you first go down to the beach , no matter how brown your skin , you should treat it as if you were n't suntanned . |
| 6 | If a marble statue of the Virgin Mary suddenly waved its hand at us we should treat it as a miracle , because all our experience and knowledge tells us that marble does n't behave like that . |
| 7 | Not all small creatures are pests , some are predatory on the pests themselves , and we should regard them as friends . |
| 8 | In fact he takes his role as guardian of these fey fellahin so seriously that perhaps one should regard him as the Brobdingnagian Mayor of Gumnutland . |
| 9 | Staff selected for inclusion in the " Relief Pool " should regard it as an experience which will assist their personal development . |
| 10 | The drafter should regard it as part of his/her job to advise the business client on the adoption of proper procedures . |
| 11 | Now , if we find Carfax first in the middle , Oxford 's on the crossroads principle , like so many cities , we 've got St Giles down here , erm and Oxford of course a small city , or we should regard it as a very small city . |
| 12 | I should describe him as an innocent . |
| 13 | So yeah , I 'm not sure whether it , whether whether one should translate it as the mountains of Ararat , or the Ararat mountains . |
| 14 | These will get better and better and we should consider them as part of our thinking . |
| 15 | Should this be announced during my absence , as is not unlikely , I would you should know it as a marriage of convenience , no more . |
| 16 | Sergius III had an illegitimate son whom he arranged should succeed him as pope . |
| 17 | Prime Minister Mahathir on Dec. 28 , 1989 , advised UMNO ( Baru ) that Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghafar Baba should succeed him as leader of the party and of the government . |
| 18 | In order to create an individual life in the world , we should use them as colours on an artist 's palette , to paint our own picture . |
| 19 | But because it is a writer who is giving us this , and a writer at the beginning of his career , what more natural than that we should see him as writing his way out of all this , as ‘ getting it out of his system ’ as we say , clearing the ground for work that will enact triumphantly his escape , his liberation , his hope . |
| 20 | It is most important that the pupil , especially if he has difficulty with spelling , should see you as a sympathetic helper who wants him to learn , and not as an examiner who only tells him he 's wrong . |
| 21 | Rather than seeing child abuse as an exceptional problem requiring an exceptional response , and hence a qualitatively different practice , we should see it as part of child care and hence child care practice . |
| 22 | The examples in this section are Janus-like , in that the reader may interpret them metaphorically but , in the light of the examples in the previous section , it seems to me that we should interpret them as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 23 | He should face justice , and he should face it as an example to the men of violence on both sides . |
| 24 | Perhaps Alex Mair should take her as patron of his power station , a quasi-saint of rationality . ’ |
| 25 | Prosodists should take it as a manifesto for investigating the links between those intuitions and the linguistic surface of texts , particularly at the phonetic level : rhythmic analysis still needs its empiricists , and Cureton has given them plenty of work to do . |
| 26 | Bill 's idea was that they should play it as a ballad instead . |
| 27 | We should replace them as the Labour Party 's main op opponents . |