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

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1 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 ’ .
2 Why should we think that metabolism is controlled , but not the vortex ?
3 Nor should we think that the situation is better at secondary level .
4 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 ?
5 Nor should we assume that the parties were static .
6 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 ?
7 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 ?
8 Should we wonder that they might influence some children to think that the real world is all like that ?
9 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 ?
10 Now should we say that B on seeing the pencil after seeing instruments which he did n't know had a feeling of familiarity ?
11 Should we say that this cry had meaning ?
12 The formulae ( ‘ it seemed good ’ , ‘ straight away ’ ) are aped from ‘ city ’ terminology ( and note the deme agora , something normally characteristic of a polis , cp. p. 66 ) — or should we say that the city aped the demes ?
13 Assimilation creates something of a problem for phoneme theory ; when , for example , in ‘ good ’ becomes in the context ‘ … girl ’ ( ) or in the context ‘ … boy ’ ( ) , should we say that one phoneme has been substituted for another ?
14 They were wrong , so why should we believe that they have got it right on this occasion ?
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