Example sentences of "[noun pl] should not be [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 Chris stresses that herbs should not be given to the fish as a substitute for food .
2 The language of rights , legitimate expectations or privileges should not be elevated to any higher status .
3 The argument is that funds should not be diverted to the government sector if they can be put to a more productive use in the private sector .
4 We do not see why the advantages should not be extended to working class people whose wages are too low to bring them within income tax limits ’ ( my italics ) ( Labour Party/TUC , 1929 , para. 4 ) .
5 The tiles ' adhesive tabs should not be applied to wallpaper — an remnants must be removed from the area to be covered .
6 Urging national governments to develop further the structure of the planned political union , as an essential concomitant to successful economic and monetary union , the Bundesbank said that the fulfilment of entry criteria and conditions of economic convergence between EC countries should not be linked to a specific time frame ( as provided for in the treaty ) .
7 He told the rector at Boston that this was a person of unusual spiritual powers ; that how to train him for the whole Church was a responsibility ; that he was anxious that these abilities should not be confined to academic spheres .
8 The consultation at present is on teachers and the Department for Education 's view is , that those regulations should not be extended to teachers , but the support of the Director of Education , County Fire Officer and County Treasurer we have erm , suggested that any change to the local government superannuation scheme should be extended to those other groups , because quite frankly you ca n't complicate different arrangements if you simple take the score .
9 Vogue wheels should not be fitted to earlier Range Rovers unless the wheel studs are marked with a line on the end or are replaced with new ones .
10 The moral of the Punchline cartoon in NI 174 seems to be that bibles should not be offered to anyone who is short of basic necessities .
11 The daily newspaper Kayhan said that pardons should not be extended to " a seasoned spy like Cooper " .
12 In those circumstances , difficulties should not be caused to member states which defended themselves against practices designed to circumvent the quota system by determining in accordance with international law the criteria on whose basis they granted vessels the right to fly their flag .
13 In summary , the view was that exceptional items should not be transferred to a single heading of ‘ exceptional ’ , because profit before exceptional items could then become the focus of financial statement presentation and as a result operating profit would be likely to become more blurred , rather than clarified .
14 The first was that fine defaulters should not be sent to prison ; but very few are .
15 However , we stressed that the set of terms should not be restricted to those for parts of speech .
16 The batteries should not be exposed to excessive heat or cold temperatures , or exposed to moisture .
17 " One can not help but wonder why , one day , when the EC has a very strong political union , nuclear arms should not be transferred to this authority , " he said .
18 Nonetheless , the differences should not be emphasized to the exclusion of certain common features .
19 If ORACLE is being used then users should not be mapped to the transfer account .
20 Remember , they are poll tax payers , too , and the parks should not be closed to them .
21 The rationale , however , for that is clear : while insurers are willing to concede that accidents will happen , events developing over a long period of time because of a lack of concern for the potential hazards should not be allowed to .
22 In England , James Robertson ( 1953 , 1958 ) , a colleague of Bowlby 's at the Tavistock Clinic , started a campaign to persuade children 's hospital wards to admit mothers together with their children , or at least not to restrict visiting in any way ; some hospitals welcomed the idea , others resisted it , but meanwhile a Government committee was set up which in 1959 published the ‘ Platt Report ’ on the welfare of children in hospital , recommending ‘ that all hospitals where children are treated will adopt the practice of unrestricted visiting , particularly for children below school age ’ , that ‘ it is particularly valuable for the mother to be able to stay in hospital with her child during the first day or two ’ , and that ‘ children should not be admitted to hospital if it can possibly be avoided ’ .
23 Mrs Winterton said letters should not be sent to the ‘ converted ’ who might find them an irritant , suggesting a change of tactics since the campaign over the Alton Bill .
24 Requests that letters should not be sent to the home address or that the telephone should not be used are always respected .
25 Information memoranda should not be sent to interested parties until a signed confidentiality letter has been received .
26 And , if we do , there are no external reasons why the average lifespan of all human beings should not be extended to many hundreds of years .
27 Budgets should not be kept to rigidly if conditions change significantly , but should permit reasonable flexibility .
28 They were right to insist that documents should not be released to the court because , he said , that was what they had to do .
29 Single girls of good family were not supposed to know of such things , but Sally-Anne , if not an active suffragette , knew about Miss Annie Besant , and those who said that women should not be tied to endless childbearing and that there were practical ways of avoiding it .
30 If , after a further review , the Council decided that students should not be admitted to any courses leading to its awards , the position of existing students would be safeguarded .
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