Example sentences of "which should [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | R&D must give way to demonstration , which should mean showing that the technology works . |
| 2 | It will now be a limited handicap which should mean avoiding the farce of last year when only three went to the post , two of them from the same stable . |
| 3 | It states : ‘ In the run-up to the first meeting , a supporting demonstration should be held which should aim to mobilise more than the 25,000 gathered on December 12 . |
| 4 | One policy , already mentioned , which should continue to shape the law of sexual offences is the criminalization of those who exploit the young and vulnerable . |
| 5 | The records of wool and cloth exported , collected by Carus-Wilson and Coleman [ A.2 , A.3 ] , are an invaluable source , which should continue to yield information on a wide range of subjects . |
| 6 | You make me say things which should remain unsaid , you pressure me on an emotional level which I find difficult to control . |
| 7 | Most coursebooks have accompanying recorded material , which should serve to consolidate what is being learnt with the teacher from the coursebook . |
| 8 | The report tested 19 popular medicines , including expectorants for loosening a cough , and suppressants which should stop coughing . |
| 9 | MicroHenry is a simpler and cheaper off-line version of Henry , which should start shipping in the summer . |
| 10 | The fast-expanding group made £12.2 million before tax and also committed £59 million of capital spending , including £31 million on its new printing operations just outside Madrid , which should start printing Hola and Hello magazines next month . |
| 11 | Because it makes public that which should stay hidden , pornography is widely considered to be a form of sexual propaganda . |
| 12 | What we are , however , concerned with now is the standard of review which should apply to determine whether the meaning of that term is satisfied by the evidence before the decision-maker . |
| 13 | Thus last year , the council of ministers of the EEC agreed to a £20 million research programme in materials , parts of which should boost recycling techniques and produce substitutes for the strategically important metals . |
| 14 | He was dressed in a blue shirt and jeans , which should have made him look more relaxed , and did n't . |
| 15 | The jury has been told that locking pins which should have secured the gantry had failed . |
| 16 | In the face of the dreadful attacks on police officers , the Home Office should have put together an urgent review team which should have incorporated other Departments and put forward a package of measures . |
| 17 | Indeed the adjective must be so understood ; if we try to imagine using , in the structure of ( 16 ) , an adjectival property which is not ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase ( nor helping as a qualifier to identify any entity of the sentence ) , there will be only two possible outcomes : If it is a property semantically compatible with the verb , the result will be taken as an ungrammatical way of expressing a thought which should have incorporated an adverb : ( 17 ) Alastair likes his beef tea great Alternatively , it will be a property that is not compatible with the verb either ; but , in that case , there will be no way of guessing what that property should be applied to — it will in effect be semantically " loose " , so that the whole will be incomprehensible : ( 18 ) the process left the documents puzzled Thus , the property of the adjective qualifies , in purely syntactic terms , the inner grouping of verb and object ; it is applied to the entity of the noun phrase , but not directly , only as part of an interlocking structure with three elements — as in certain engineering and architectural structures , each of three elements needs the other two in order for the whole to function effectively . |
| 18 | The fire which should have flared at the entrance was a pile of wet ash and the oil-topped torches were extinguished . |
| 19 | The finger pointed at education could not easily be pushed aside , particularly at a time when the period of education had been extended and the school population , on both sides of the Atlantic , was beginning to diminish factors which should have favoured significant improvement . |
| 20 | After the death of Sicily 's most recent king , William II , a dispute arose over the succession , which should have gone to William 's aunt ; she was related to the son of the German Emperor , Frederick Barbarossa . |
| 21 | But because the law as an ass , overs were arbitrarily taken from their batsmen and games which should have gone their way were lost . |
| 22 | The Government 's own Department of Development Aid has apparently been so devious that the judge investigating the billions of Rand evidently missing or misappropriated , which should have gone towards assisting the poorer ( black ) communities , has thrown in the towel when faced by the department 's shambolic accounting . |
| 23 | The planned launch of the German Atmos satellite — which should have gone up in 1995 — may be cancelled due to a funding shortfall of around £300-400 million . |
| 24 | ‘ There are failsafes which should have stopped it from doing this ! ’ |
| 25 | Incidentally , Larry Klein is supposed to have produced the new Shawn Colvin album , which should have appeared by now . |
| 26 | Sir William Hamilton paid the bills ( as the creditors knew he would ) , and in his will he left her £300 and an annuity of £800 , which should have enabled her to live comfortably though not perhaps ostentatiously . |
| 27 | An emergency procedure was in operation which should have ensured that only one train was in the tunnel . |
| 28 | These included care of the mentally ill ( which then also included the elderly with mental disability ) — these categories which should have received a bigger slice of the cake , actually received a smaller percentage of health board funding during the funding period from 1981–82 to 1985–86 . |
| 29 | The press-gang gave politicians an effective method of giving a very real service to the parties more directly concerned , and it was one which should have created a lasting sense of obligation , for life before the mast in one of His Majesty 's ships was not likely to be easily forgotten . |
| 30 | In the last three months , which should have seen the culmination of Jubilee Year , a number of things happened which combined to slow and stop the momentum of Jubilee Year . |