Example sentences of "[noun sg] we should [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have had bad luck with injuries but with the number of quality players at the club we should be a match for most teams . |
| 2 | If briefly distracted from watching a film or television programme we should be very surprised not to be able to remember anything about it afterwards . |
| 3 | In social research we should be trying to carry out objective research to find out the truth of the matter . |
| 4 | President we should be under no illusion that this reactionary government will continue to attack local government to attack local to attack local government our public services are at the mercy of the fast-buck merchants within the private contractors who are bidding for council services . |
| 5 | Thus the spelling unit which maps onto the phoneme is not the letter , but the grapheme , and the term we should be using is ‘ grapheme-phoneme rules ’ ( not letter-sound rules ) . |
| 6 | Just a small point on this amendment , er the forty thousand figure we should be aware could be a Conservative figure . |
| 7 | Certainly he expects to be happy there , but even if we were to claim that his ultimate end is pleasure we should be using ‘ end ’ in another sense than when we say that his flight was the end to which booking the ticket was the means , since to enjoy living in a place is not an activity separate from and subsequent in time to living there . |
| 8 | That 's the kind of work we should be getting into here . |
| 9 | First , we need to have more control and accountability for our clinical practice ; second we need to further develop our analytical skills to make us more confident and effective members of the multidisciplinary team , and third , by appreciating the managerial themes in our work we should be better equipped to establish constructive dialogues with our managers who may now be non-nurses . |
| 10 | Using the personal food and drink audit we should be seeking a new balance in our diet that will provide us with all the essential nutrients that our bodies need . |
| 11 | In such an exercise we should be especially alert to identify the unreached , contact new arrivals and respond to unmet needs . |
| 12 | Though it hardly seems possible , spring-flowering bulbs are on sale again , and if we want to bring some winter cheer to the home we should be planting them now . |
| 13 | In my opinion we should be tampering with language not to tell the truth , but quite openly to shame the devil . |
| 14 | We get two times four X cubed minus X times twelve X squared minus one Well that 's a shame we should be getting we should get twice it . |
| 15 | This , it seems , was a widely held assumption : ‘ If the yeomanry of England were not , in time of war we should be in shrood case ; for in them standeth the chief defence of England . ’ |
| 16 | So conclude briefly there in that the City Council does support the the broad thrust of the County 's two policies here but we would ask for clarification on I five on the actual level of provision we should be providing on our local plan . |
| 17 | Our Development Steering Group met in April and because we were by then well into our financial year it was decided that with an all out effort on everyone 's part we should be able to raise the £8000 for 1988 . |
| 18 | With luck we should be in Cajamarca in time for breakfast . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't know you know it 's er it er we do manage and of course what breaks er people 's spirit is I mean we we know we do n't get the money we should be having . |
| 20 | In that case we should be back in something like the unsatisfactory position we were in before the introduction of comprehensive schools , when the least successful children were relegated to schools that were openly admitted to be inferior ; and it is likely that the ‘ good ’ schools would , many of them , choose to free themselves from their Local Authorities . |
| 21 | Mr. Lester presented us with what he termed a menu of choices in case we should be against his submission that the right to sue in malicious falsehood was a sufficient protection for the reputation of a corporate public authority . |
| 22 | They would be difficult to enforce , and in any case we should be encouraging young people to be active in the countryside . |
| 23 | But in case we should be so facile as to see this as a Grimes leitmotif in the Wagnerian sense explicitly rejected by Britten , we must notice the somewhat complex history of the theme after its first full appearance , as well as the fact that almost every theme in the opera ( apart from the non-recurring tunes of some , but not all , of the individual songs ) could be called a " Grimes " leitmotif , which would leave us where we began . |
| 24 | I said that one day we should be back , and that in the meantime our affection for the people of Burma would not fail . |
| 25 | In any event we should be back long before the Kilcharran arrives . ’ |
| 26 | Warlow pointed out , quite correctly , that this is not the sort of inversion we should be looking at : if the Earth flipped over in this way the Sun would still rise in the east , whereas there are legends that , before the ( undescribed ) catastrophe , the Sun rose in the west , and that it is only since that catastrophe that the Sun has risen in the east . |
| 27 | And if , if we are not spending that money on all this er extra , we could buy the food at the price we should be buying it . |
| 28 | £18.50 a bash we should be in the dug out for that . |
| 29 | IT 'S the economy we should be bashing our brains about . |
| 30 | Yes in theory we should be doing the same thing |