Example sentences of "should [vb infin] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should apologize for canned soup , but I spent so long talking to Stanley this morning |
| 2 | Her opening words , which echo a pair of lines in Chaucer 's first fabliau in the sequence of the Canterbury Tales , the Miller 's Tale ( I : 3768 – 9 ) , invite a dialogue charged with sexual connotations , not only in the obvious case of " " ryse " " , but also in the detectable reference to a conventional love-sickness : The monk 's answer immediately confirms the sexual topic of the dialogue , and dispenses with any euphemistic disguises : This rapid movement to a contextually surprising level of familiarity on the topic of sexual intimacy is paralleled in the French fabliau Auburee , where the old bawd , Auburee , in procuring a young wife for a besotted admirer , visits the wife and moves smartly into the bedroom , declaring : ( " I should certainly like to see your bed : then I should know for certain if you lie in the same splendour as the first wife did . " ) |
| 3 | We really should wait for Frejji to come back and fix them . ’ |
| 4 | The principal recipients are the Local Authorities and the LEC 's , although there is some debate at present as to whether organisations such as British Coal should qualify for direct payment ( for the moment I have assumed that will not be the case ) . |
| 5 | Other main recommendations were that : ( i ) Congress should create the post of assistant secretary for transport in charge of security and intelligence ; ( ii ) the US government should directly manage security at domestic airports and conduct a study to assess the safety of US airports ; ( iii ) the State Department rather than the airlines should conduct negotiations with foreign governments to meet security standards at airports used by US carriers ; ( iv ) victims of terrorist attacks aimed against the US government should qualify for special financial compensation ; and ( v ) the State Department should take steps to ensure that relatives of victims were given " prompt , humane and courteous treatment and services in overseas disasters " . |
| 6 | I do n't think we should look for fundamental changes now but we must look at the configuration of services |
| 7 | After looking for agoraphobic avoidance , the therapist should look for social avoidance . |
| 8 | But you 've argued previously in this hall that North Yorkshire should provide for residential development at a level which would cater for a continuation of the past levels of migration . |
| 9 | Despite an initially hostile atmosphere , with demonstrations organized by the regime , the talks concluded on Nov. 13 with an agreement that representatives of the National Assembly should meet for direct talks with Aristide . |
| 10 | SCOTVEC is able to offer assistance and advice on the form and content that such training should have for individual qualifications . |
| 11 | And there is debate and notable disagreement about the consequences that elections not only do have but should have for public policy . |
| 12 | Old should pay for long hospital stays : doctor |
| 13 | Yet if you accept that managers change styles to suit the occasion or their mood , it is a small step to suggest that they should aim for constructive change , either tactically or as a permanent shift . |
| 14 | ‘ The day has come when India should go for new faces and not go on trying with the old ones , who have failed us miserably , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Three years later the TUC attitude to black workers , and more specifically black women workers , was shown by its lack of action on such simple and bland recommendations ( from the Camden Council for Community Relations ) as that the trade union movement should press for compulsory language training at work ( ie. in the employer 's time , not after hours ) or co-operate ‘ more positively ’ in agreeing to English classes where the management has taken the initiative , or that there should be ‘ more positive participation in supporting any industrial action taken by minority group workers in their fight to achieve equal opportunity ’ . |
| 16 | The floating point changes should allow for increased parallelism . |
| 17 | It comes in a slimline ‘ mini ’ tower casing , which is common among file server designs as it should allow for maximum expandability . |
| 18 | NILP stressed that a provincial government should allow for fair representation of all shades of opinion . |
| 19 | ‘ After 1949 , ’ wrote Betty Friedan , ‘ Career Woman suddenly became pejorative , denoting a ball-busting , man-eating harpy , a miserable neurotic witch from whom man and child should flee for very life . ’ |
| 20 | DGH units should cater for acute work and long stay units should be established in the Districts . |
| 21 | For many years there has been much debate in the UK about who should care for diabetic patients — general practitioners or hospital-based doctors . |
| 22 | Vegetarians should note that as every evening meal is a set four course dinner which is meat and fish orientated , they should arrange for special means when booking their cruise . |
| 23 | We suggest that this present system which I think many of us have doubts about should continue for practical reasons for nineteen ninety four , ninety five only and for ninety five , ninety six , we will have the benefit of the audit . |
| 24 | The first and most important step is to get the baby examined by a doctor , who should check for serious problems such as gastro-oesophageal reflux — acid passing from the stomach up into the gullet ( oesophagus ) , and thus causing pain — or intestinal obstruction . |
| 25 | The medical history , examination and tests should check for pre-existing problems which can be corrected . |
| 26 | Does he agree that , rather than arguing about what should be done at Dounreay , where a great deal of expertise is available , we should argue for open government ; and that , in that respect , a lesson can be learnt for the future ? |
| 27 | If the seller 's position is reasonably strong he should ask for specific details and firm commitments . |