Example sentences of "[pers pn] should [be] [adj] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I should be grateful to be a white man . |
| 2 | Every dancer has got a different job to do on the road — as if dancing were n't difficult enough — but you know what most people would say : ‘ It 's art , it 's dance , it 's Britain , you should be grateful to be doing it at all ’ . |
| 3 | What I believe you should be concerned with is what the erm persons I represent , bodies I represent , now wish to see happening with regard to these two sites . |
| 4 | ‘ I tell you flatly , the sort of scientists you should be frightened of are n't the ones like Dr. Briant , who … well , opt out of the ethical questions . |
| 5 | Appropriate action must take place at once — you are dealing with realities , not wish-fulfilment , so you should be able to be sympathetic but firm . |
| 6 | You should be happy to be rid of them . ’ |
| 7 | It was a good case he wanted us to remember that there 's a hunger for the word of God and that what we should be worried about was poverty in the things of the spirit but he made the blank statement and it shocked one young man called John who at the time was the minister of a church extension charge in one of our deprived housing situations . |
| 8 | As grandparents they should be free to be detached , and to give time and care of a different and special kind , which harassed and busy parents are often not able to provide . |
| 9 | erm In principle it should be possible to be able to speak into a microphone , or to write on a pad , with a pencil , and the computer would be connected to the microphone or the pad and would take in and interpret what you 've done , without having to learn this rather clumsy method of putting things in one letter at a time . |
| 10 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 11 | The only monetary target he should be interested in was the price of his memoirs . |