Example sentences of "[conj] we should [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It felt absurd that we should be indoors poring over papers when we might have been out there , basking in dappled sunlight , bathing in the lake . |
| 2 | We can judge this by the massively negative emotions aroused within us by little pin-pricks that we should be easily able to take . |
| 3 | I am not suggesting that we should be completely sceptical about the value of introspection . |
| 4 | Health Matters next month suggests that we should be more concerned with hygiene and the prevention of food poisoning than the risks of ill health from pesticides . |
| 5 | So what I thought was that it was quite important to look at all these organisations that do seem to me really to have nothing to do with Oxford or Oxfordshire , and that we should be very careful . |
| 6 | It 's hardly surprising that we should be deeply suspicious of any attempt to deal with a subject as charged as rape . |
| 7 | For it is the will of our courteous Lord that we should be as much at home with him as heart may think or soul desire . ’ |
| 8 | One is to conceive of them as being deliberately designed for the purposes they serve , the implication of which is that we should be constantly reforming existing institutions so that they may better serve those ends for which they were intended . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | The Secretary of State seems to think that we should be so grateful that the Government have promised that the poll tax will go that we should not look too closely at what will replace it . |
| 11 | ‘ He has a future ’ , she remarked , ‘ and I have a past , so we should be all right . ’ |
| 12 | Mass democracy is a difficult and hitherto largely uncharted territory ; and we should be nearer the mark , and should have a far more convincing slogan , if we spoke of the need , not to defend democracy , but to create it . |
| 13 | As a profession we have undervalued the importance of nursing care both politically and clinically , and we should be more analytical and confident regarding its significance within the multidisciplinary team and its impact on patient care outcomes . |
| 14 | We should be more efficient and we should be more responsive to the needs of tenants . |
| 15 | The tremendous problems that they have need addressing and we should be there , not because we can reap the benefits necessarily in funding , although of course that would help , but because we can lend a hand , because we can reach out Local Authority and in my view that is also what the people of would want this Council to do . |
| 16 | We are left with the rather worrying conclusion that cerebral cortex , as a whole , is homologous in all mammalian species but we should be very , very cautious about accepting homologies between specific cortical areas . |
| 17 | But we should be very careful not to expect to send troops all over the world . |
| 18 | But we should be further on in the long march from paternalism . |