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

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1 Tender herbs should be gradually accustomed to lower temperatures before planting outdoors , and in any case should not be subjected to frost .
2 A couple of minutes should be quite adequate to summarize the following points about yourself :
3 Employers should be more aware of their employees ' needs .
4 Transfer from special school to integrated provision as a pupil gains mastery of specialised skills or transfer from integrated provision to special provision for specific reasons should be neither surprising nor impossible .
5 The players and coaches should be immensely proud of themselves for their performances .
6 Managers , the argument runs , should put shareholders first ; and shareholders should be more involved with managers .
7 It believes that audit committees and the obligatory rotation of audit partners may not go far enough to convince the public of their independence , and suggests that shareholders should be more involved in appointing auditors , determining the scope of the audit , and in the decision to obtain other services from the auditing firm .
8 For example , in our manufacturing example , increasing exports reduces home sales and so we might use the criterion that exports should be as close as possible to their goal : 12 .
9 The Institute 's main concern is that the new entities should be expressly subject to national legislation governing the activity undertaken .
10 Indeed far from being fearful of continued public objection , local authorities should be more concerned about their ability to be able to keep up with public demand for calming various residential areas once the ideas take off .
11 Second , ‘ the plans themselves should consciously take note of such demand factors and , of critical importance , the plans should be sufficiently flexible to be able to respond to demand in the course of implementation — including the identification of criteria which , when met , should signal a need for a review .
12 In order to justify the time spent on producing them , the copies should be consistently clear and legible .
13 It is essential that any proposals should be scientifically justifiable otherwise costs increase and jobs are threatened with no real environmental benefits .
14 This in itself presents a powerful argument against change , for it is clearly desirable that national and EC policies should be broadly similar if only because it is less confusing to the business community .
15 ’ Mr Graham , ’ he said conversationally to the boss next day , ‘ Do you think that IMF policies should be so stringent ? ’
16 If it does , fluent restorations should be more frequent when there is an appropriate context than when there is not .
17 Finally , sociological accounts should be more objective , systematic and potentially verifiable .
18 We would like to see closer control , and checks should be more stringent and more frequent .
19 Happily , there are now restrictions upon the use of specified chemicals and so our rivers and waterways should be less polluted .
20 Taking all this into account , we have to ask why the extraterrestrials should be remotely interested in seeding distant planets .
21 The assessment panels have contributed to the development of the general idea that , within reasonable constraints and parameters , schools should be sufficiently flexible to adjust to defined needs and problems rather than impose rigid , homogeneous solutions to particular and individual problems .
22 Well I was impressed by the erm the Maxwell erm peoples comments that the funds should be clearly marked pension fund accounts and and that er there would be regulations that this money could n't be transferred without some the regulator again or somebody making er agreeing to the transaction , but I erm fully understand that would be erm very time-consuming , but er that 's the only way I can see that , that the fund should be clearly marked that they 're pension fund and should n't be transferred without some some authority agreeing to it .
23 Similarly , costlier graduated tails should be less prevalent in families that migrate than in other families .
24 The zoetrope span smoothly , time 's Chief Designer narrowed the legs of trousers and decreed that the cars should be more aerodynamic .
25 Ideally , it would seem , bat pulses should be very brief indeed .
26 Journalists should be fully conversant with their rights to appeal against any exclusion from the courtroom or any secrecy order made under the Contempt of Court Act .
27 Even if such a sweeping conclusion is not warranted , retributivists should be strongly critical of many aspects of our penal system , not least the lack of consistency in sentencing practices ( see Chapter 4 ) which means that offenders are to a great extent not dealt with in proportion to their just deserts .
28 Consequently , although experiments conducted using a single methodology are open to many interpretations , studies of the same process using a variety of methods should be less equivocal .
29 The Head of Department replied that they were used mainly for the Sixth Form , for example , the History of Art' … my predecessor bought them for departmental use , but my belief is that kids should be actively involved in creative work , not passively looking at film — and we have difficulty with blackout , too'. ( verified note of meeting )
30 The chairman of ITSA 's fair trading committee , Tony Northcott , said : ‘ Shoppers should be extremely careful .
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