Example sentences of "[pers pn] should be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I persuaded my mother that I should be the first visitor ; after all , I knew Parma better than she did , and since I was a young girl they might treat me more kindly . |
| 2 | She replied that she and her community would co-operate in this task on one condition , namely that I should be the General Editor . |
| 3 | I should be the last to imply that a Member of Parliament ought to subordinate his judgement of what is wise or right to even the most overwhelming majority of opinion . |
| 4 | ‘ I should be the social worker . |
| 5 | As Martin stood scratching his head , one of the goblins sneaked up behind him and whispered , " Say , " He told me I should be the richest man in the world . " " |
| 6 | What he tells you should be the distilled essence of what he has personally found . |
| 7 | You 'll be given a fistful of them and the one that is set for you should be the first one that you do , but then the groups should pick something which is as far as possible relevant to what 's actually going on in your profession at the moment . |
| 8 | There was another relative from Hilda 's side of the family with a feeble grasp on life and reality , who kept muttering remarks like ‘ To think she should be the first to go , ’ and ‘ Well , who would have thought it ? ’ |
| 9 | I think she should be the first to know that you are now officially my girlfriend . ’ |
| 10 | At a recent meeting of the , I believe the , first of the Estuaries Management Committee Meetings for the Orwell and the Stour I was approached by the R S P B representative and was delighted to be asked , how soon is the pamphlets that we 're jointly publishing coming out and I said , oh that 's a jolly good idea , what 's happening , and he tells me that the R Y A's name is to be published with the R S P B and this can do nothing but help our image as we will all appreciate in here , perhaps we need to remember that the gun clubs call themselves , the Gun and Convers Conservation Societies , the wide wise wild fowlers call themselves the Wild Fowlers and Conservation Societies , perhaps we should be the Royal Yachting and Conservation Society and join in with that R S P B publication for I believe quite a very small sum relative to the total outlay . |
| 11 | I mean I 've got , some of my best friends are fucking sub contractors as you know , really good friends , I mean Jonesy brilliant friend , a great friend , a nice geezer , er Bill beautifully bloke , really nice , but they should be the first ones out the door , Rumbolds should think more of their permanent staff than they do their fucking contractors staff that 's what makes this company work , that 's what makes this company worst than all the rest , ok , you get , you get Union companies which are , must employ sub contractors all the time , |
| 12 | There should be only 20 such tournaments in a Ryder Cup year and they should be the biggest and best . ’ |
| 13 | No they should be the same . |
| 14 | The intention is that it should be the major Group priority for two years from September 1991 . |
| 15 | By contrast , the Bible tells us it should be the other way round : the Bible text should be the starting place for our teaching . |
| 16 | Julie , who lives in Llanbedr , near Ruthin , North Wales , added : ‘ He comes into us asking if we 're asleep when it should be the other way round . |
| 17 | Erm I think , C P R E we feel we say this in our opening statement to our evidence that it should be the other way round . |
| 18 | It is difficult for some people to come to grips with the fact that children do not have a higher priority than partners , because some people feel that the purpose of marriage is producing children and therefore it should be the highest priority . |
| 19 | As it is so undemanding and adaptable to many conditions , it should be the first choice of any aquarist . |
| 20 | My right hon. Friend will be aware of widespread concern in the community that whatever fuel is chosen by the electricity producers , it should be the cleanest fuel of all . |
| 21 | The recommendations in the White Paper of the following year Better Services for the Mentally Ill indicated that it should be the long-term aim of the RHA to axe at the very least one-third of this provision , even if no general hospital units at all were provided . |
| 22 | As project A has the greater NPV , it should be the preferred option . |
| 23 | It should be the collective role of the local authority social services departments to have oversight of all who need domiciliary care . |
| 24 | When you are using a set of materials in the classroom , the important thing is that it should be the right length : |
| 25 | The vertical plane is referred to , incorrectly , as the CVR : it should be the central vertical plane . |
| 26 | In many ways it should be the last consideration , though some people have such strong likes and dislikes that they can neither explain nor ignore ! |
| 27 | Well it should be the three of us more . |
| 28 | An emergency jobs programme to reduce it should be the main battleground . |
| 29 | It should be the easiest thing to keep a branch alive . |
| 30 | It should be the easiest of alibis to check . |