Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [that] [pron] should " in BNC.

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1 By contrast , the policy of successive British Governments has been that we should make and announce a decision formally ‘ recognising ’ the new government .
2 What matters is that something should be done to give us jobs and money to live on .
3 I am saying Mr Major , as Prime Minister , if someone in my position is saying I believe , I believe , there is the best opportunity here for lasting peace , by which I mean a total cessation of violence , the least I expect is that you should listen to what I have to say .
4 Now then all we 're doing , what we should have done is that we should have had an opening balance at the beginni or the end of December when the di information was first struck .
5 The important thing to remember is that we should all be seeking to eat more of the right kinds of food ( foods with health and nutritional properties ) rather than seeking to fit in with someone else 's ideal consumer .
6 It probably does not matter what title is held by the people who will be dealing with press enquiries , but what does matter is that they should be reasonably au fait with the company and its products .
7 One recommendation that has been made is that there should be a ‘ decade of retirement ’ , between the ages of 60 and 70 .
8 The assumption usually made is that it should be the teachers in schools who review the curriculum .
9 I then gave a message to his secretary personal assistant and was told no the letter I receive was that I should n't go through something third hand you do n't see what the other side is .
10 what I was going to suggest is that we should s seek to negotiate with them a turnover rent .
11 One point well worth noting is that you should restrict the usage of typefaces within a single document or publication to two or , at the most , three .
12 The attitude to the Asian women employed is that they should be hired and fired as needed .
13 We all recall that in the heyday of the poll tax the one principle that Ministers and Conservative Members were most reluctant to abandon was that everyone should pay something .
14 I suppose what I 'm really saying is that we should stop for a second each time we leap to elevate some young lad or lass to godlike status for a fifteen second guitar solo , and think about Paul McCartney penning Yesterday at age 23 .
15 What I 'm asking is that you should look at the accounts with your detective instincts on the alert and see if there 's anything that strikes you as odd about them . "
16 I told her how much I disliked Katherine Mansfield as a personality , and she faintly rebuked me : ‘ What I feel is that we should be so grateful to her . ’
17 Gandhi claims that it can not be used in an unjust cause but what he might mean is that it should not be used in an unjust cause .
18 Thus it seems that the only understanding that the persons in the original position can reach is that everyone should have the greatest equal liberty consistent with a similar liberty for others .
19 The important thing to realise is that you should follow the shaping instructions from either the left or the right side of the diagram .
20 All I ask is that you should bear in mind that in an agency with 25 or 30 people you are unlikely to find all the jobs described : indeed , you are quite likely not to find them all in an agency with 500 people , and there are precious few of those in Europe , and not many in the USA .
21 All that mattered was that she should catch up with Meredith .
22 Erm but I think that I , what I felt was that I should have the right to be consulted and that every reasonable effort should be made to consult me .
23 What I am arguing is that we should be trying to rescue the market economy from the libertarian philosophy with which it has become entangled and regrettably identified .
24 ‘ All I mind is that you should tire yourself staying awake .
25 One thing I have learned is that I should never tell class members to lift their ‘ jambon ’ . ’
26 ‘ The experience was certainly salutary , ’ wrote Niki , adding that what he learned was that he should trust his own judgement , that engineers get carried away and some drivers do n't understand their cars .
27 What I am suggesting is that you should not underrate your ability to succeed in what is now a highly competitive market place .
28 Quite apart from the fact that they would appear to be unorthodox and a distortion at its best of Christian theology , I believe it must be said of all these suggestions that , if what is intended is that they should give an equal place to women or to the ‘ feminine ’ within the Christian religion , they fail .
29 It is not proposed to discuss the aesthetics of this usage for the text writer ; all that I wish to say is that it should not be copied by the student , for in his mouth it sounds too grandiloquent .
30 A fourth option which has been advocated is that we should draw upon American experience and adopt a ‘ hard look ’ standard of review for discretionary decisions .
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