Example sentences of "[adj] should [not/n't] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That should n't be necessary . |
| 2 | Ideally , that should n't be important , of course , since both TrueType and Adobe fonts ought to perform equally well ( I do n't want to get into an argument about which is better here ) , but adherents of one or the other will want to know which they 're using — and when you 've got over 200 fonts on your system , as some folks do , you ca n't always remember which is which . |
| 3 | Well that should n't be difficult you see them on every street corner . |
| 4 | That should not be surprising , because when asked to name one favourite flower , beautiful above all others , again there can be little doubt that most people — in Britain at any rate , and whether gardeners or not — would choose the rose . |
| 5 | Not quite ; though that should not be surprising . |
| 6 | This should not be necessary as soon as the band plays in larger venues . |
| 7 | Avoid any tendency to pull the model round with back cyclic — this should not be necessary and will rob you of forward speed which is not advisable at this stage . |
| 8 | ( It is possible to set up a system to gradually add your tank water while discarding the shop water but this should not be necessary ) . |
| 9 | ( This should not be necessary . ) |
| 10 | Its loss ratio must accordingly be quite high and as the dominant UK export credit underwriter , this should not be surprising . |
| 11 | This should not be confused with the proposition that because judges lack business experience they are not competent to judge business issues . |
| 12 | This should not be confused with the later usage of Slavonia , which , in a geographical sense , refers to a region of south-east Croatia centred on Slavonski Brod , but in a wider context is used to cover the historic Habsburg province of Slavonia , which lay between the valleys of the Sava and the Drava . |
| 13 | This should not be confused with capacity . |
| 14 | Very few part-time farmers went away for a holiday so this should not be difficult . |
| 15 | This should not be difficult . |
| 16 | The following should not be subject to commision by the manager : |
| 17 | These should not be confused with pails which are cylindrical , handled containers made entirely of metal , mostly imported into England ( Richards 1986 ) . |
| 18 | These should not be confused with the optical primaries ; red , green and blue . |
| 19 | Equally , common sense demands that the operated transsexual should not be able to avoid prosecution and conviction for soliciting or importuning , as the case may be , by suddenly adopting for the duration of the trial the prior and now abandoned sex . |
| 20 | It is proposed that whether the girl is under 13 or under 16 , a man who believes that she is over 16 should not be guilty of any crime . |
| 21 | The areas for which data are not available were excluded by specifying that values less than zero should not be shaded but should be left blank . |
| 22 | Generic playfulness in television is as likely to fall within the characteristically modernist desire for a modernization of expression as it is to constitute a postmodern avant garde , and the two should not be confused . |
| 23 | The fact is that we need both , and the two should not be confused . |