Example sentences of "[pers pn] should [adv] be [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crilly reminds me that I 'm American too , and just because I know a few words of British slang , I should n't be getting airs about myself . |
| 2 | You should n't be using scissors . " |
| 3 | ‘ You should n't be doing things like this for me , ’ he said . |
| 4 | To do this you should always be looking upwind to spot the give-away dark furry patches on the water that mark their approach . |
| 5 | People are are seeing animals as objects of entertainment , objects of amusement , we should not be allowing circuses to present animals in this way to our society and particularly to children . |
| 6 | We are very concerned that in in making provision for housing through to the year two thousand and six , we should not be making provision for that level of vacancy rate , which seems to us to be artificially high when compared with the the national figures . |
| 7 | We should really be laying men off ; there is no money in the bank . ’ |
| 8 | The logical conclusion of all this is that there can no longer be a justification for the massive nuclear arsenals held by both sides , that only the absolute minimum of nuclear defence is required and that , because President Yeltsin , too , now has his finger on the nuclear button , we should now be doing business with him on this issue as on so many others . |
| 9 | They should not be taking decisions about how money should be spent . |
| 10 | They should not be denied atoms and molecules because of a lack of primary school laboratories . |
| 11 | Using these criteria ( as well as that which stipulated that they should not be paid carers ) we felt we would achieve a more homogeneous sample than if we had included people less closely involved , and one which would be confined to those with a significant input into the care of the dementia sufferer . |
| 12 | They should n't be called newspapers , they are full of nothing but sex . ’ |
| 13 | I saw this programme , about girls of fifteen who had had abortions , and they said the nurses made them feel they should n't be having abortions , they should keep the baby . |
| 14 | They should also be given permission to issue some form of fixed interest profit-related bond , be allowed to raise a proportion of their equity direct from the public and be subject to independent regulation similar to that of privatised utilities . |
| 15 | That the gulf existed was something she had known all along , so what she had overheard and the realisation it brought with it should n't be causing tears to prick behind her eyes as she opened the cupboard in the study that adjoined Faye and Bill 's bedroom , and got out the testing kit she had come for . |
| 16 | Since it is the world leader at fashioning new-fangled superconductors made from thallium and bismuth ( which work at higher and more convenient temperatures ) , Sumitomo Electric sees no reason why it should not be supplying coils for sea-going SEMP vessels before the decade is out . |