Example sentences of "should [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 Why should I assume that in combining imperatives with propositions about other persons I can afford to ignore , while taking for granted the analogizing on which the mere use of a common name depends , the operations of assimilating to and differentiating from myself without which the propositions would not even have their full meaning ?
2 You see , Miss Williams — or should I make that Fran , so that I can get used to calling you that ? — I could n't very well tell the police what had gone on last night , so I improvised .
3 Then , almost angrily , she asked him , ‘ Why should I believe that you were afraid for me ?
4 Nor should you think that this is a slice of ‘ heritage ’ , or a statement of pride in cultural or racial roots : some of these pieces are traditional , but this music 's still developing .
5 The major ones are detailed here but , should you decide that you wish to consult such a therapist , there are a few points to remember :
6 Should you decide that you would prefer to knit your design in jacquard rather than Fair Isle , DesignaKnit can automatically separate all the colours for you in the way that is required for your particular knitting machine .
7 Again , should you assume that your examiner is an ignoramus and explain everything to him , or can you assume that he is a lawyer so that a hint is sufficient ?
8 ‘ Why should you assume that I 'm a virgin ? ’ she finally managed to say , twisting away to grapple inwardly for composure .
9 Should you feel that you are stagnating in your abyss of boredom , use your mind by studying something which has always interested you instead of something you needed to know in order to keep your job .
10 ‘ Why should you suppose that a casual kiss means marriage ? ’
11 So should you discover that you are spending more time in Safeways than on the north-bound carriageway of the A9 , it 's time to tackle the South Glen Shiel Ridge .
12 ( 1 ) What market position should you adopt that makes sense to those who buy or may buy your services ? ( a ) Should you adopt a niche approach to certain aspects of personal injury work ( eg paraplegia , brain injuries , disaster litigation ) ? ( b ) Will plaintiff personal injury work preclude defendant or insurance defence work ?
13 Should you wish that this Office act as ‘ home authority ’ for your company in any of these matters , please submit the necessary information on the enclosed form .
14 Should you find that despite all this you do occasionally eat too much , try to take extra exercise , the occasional long walk at least , to work it off .
15 Should you find that your roof is home to bats or other species , protected under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 , you must consult the Nature Conservancy Council for advice on the best way to deal with them , for the minimum disruption to both the animals and the household .
16 Keep close watch on the stitches , it is worth working a little slower to make sure that all the stitches have knitted and should you find that an occasional loop stays over the needle after knitting the row , set the main carriage for EMPTY and move it across the knitting to knit any unworked loop .
17 Then , should you find that all the seats are taken ,
18 Details of the steps to be taken should you consider that the cause for complaint has not been dealt with satisfactorily , in spite of the approaches to the above officers , are given in the Staff Handbook .
19 And even if it were , as it just might be , true , why should she assume that this old ex-pat , mainly interested in the hunt for gentleman 's relish , knew anything about it ?
20 Should one assume that the parties take notice in the original position of their own fallibility , and agree on constitutional arrangements that will be self-correcting if it turns out that the fundamental beliefs concerning human nature , on which their substantive principles of justice are based , turn out to be wrong , or not ?
21 Nor should we suppose that T. S. Eliot was just firing off his big guns against R. A. Butler 's wartime Education Act of 1944 , for already in the 1930s there had been widespread criticism of ‘ standardisation ’ and ‘ levelling down ’ .
22 Why should we think that metabolism is controlled , but not the vortex ?
23 Nor should we think that the situation is better at secondary level .
24 Should we assume that the meaningfulness of such a hypothesis necessarily depends on the possibility ( in principle , at least ) of turning the relevant propositional schema into a meaningful singular proposition , viz. by replacing the " bound " variable ( the variable governed by the " existential quantifier " ) with an appropriate name , or a naming phrase ?
25 Nor should we assume that the parties were static .
26 Should we insist that children spend all their time with a literature whose main non-white representatives are Othello , Man Friday in Robinson Crusoe and the savages in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness ?
27 If there is this source of contamination necessarily present in the procedure , why should we insist that the input to the procedure be completely sterile , i.e. devoid of any taint of falsehood ?
28 Should we wonder that they might influence some children to think that the real world is all like that ?
29 If the mood is one of resigned acceptance , that the situation represents one 's life difficulties , that there is no help to be obtained in dealing with the matter , should we consider that such a person has a problem ?
30 Now should we say that B on seeing the pencil after seeing instruments which he did n't know had a feeling of familiarity ?
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