Example sentences of "[noun] should be [be] " in BNC.

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1 I was so caught up in my plurals or situations in hardship that I did n't notice that the subject in more senses than one is a singular lack , and the verb should be is and not are , therefore I must ask the indulgence of the general assembly to change the verb .
2 A note about choosing the sample size is in order here although the decision about how large n should be is usually difficult .
3 If it is not , the bid should be be blocked .
4 ‘ THE most disheartening thing is that I have always had a really strong idea about what I want the group to be and I 'm not very good at relating to people who think that their version of what my group should be is more important than mine , ’ complains Stuart Adamson , singer/guitarist with Big Country .
5 But what its content should be was left at first to the experts .
6 Right the other thing Ann you you really must get given you pieces of titles you know because that should steer you into it you know the title should be be the first peg you hang your hat on , that 's the first thing .
7 Where the wall should be was a space , a mist , a foggy drop into infinity …
8 manager should be be a major priority .
9 Your objective should be being at least there should n't it ?
10 Now to me , and John Prescott 's not even in our union , shame , that man should be is doing what every other G M B member of Parliament should be doing .
11 Quite what that image should be was , in 1990 , undecided .
12 The earlier version of English at Nottingham as " elegant dabbling in belles-lettres " stiffened by Anglo Saxon and philology , now made way for a more Leavisian model : " My conception of what a School of English should be was considerably clarified by my reading of Dr. Leavis " notable essay entitled " A Sketch for an English School " in his Education and the University . "
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