Example sentences of "he should [not/n't] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should not be nervous : by the time he arrives on stage just before the end of the first act the youngsters in the audience had been thoroughly warmed up by all the silliness created by Michael Barrymore and the Roly Polys ; the bruisers from Essex who turned up to see their hero had been thoroughly oiled with lager and were ready to send their love across the footlights . |
| 2 | But if by any chance the Bairns ' fortunes begin to falter under his chairmanship , and their stalwart position as second-bottom in the league is challenged , then he should not be surprised to hear from the terraces the menacing sound of the fans as they give tongue : ‘ Christie , Christie , Christie — out , out , out ! ’ |
| 3 | A high value tends to be placed on certainty and permanence , so that when a child is removed from his natural parents and rapid rehabilitation seems unlikely , he should not be confused by multiple parent figures or uncertain plans for his future . |
| 4 | He should not be confused with his contemporary , Jeremiah Dixon , FRS ( 1726–1782 ) of Gledhow , near Leeds , son-in-law of John Smeaton [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | Fellow commoner at Emmanuel College , Cambridge , in 1585 , he should not be confused with his cousin Thomas Jermyn of Depden , MP for Sudbury in 1589 ( died 1617 ) . |
| 6 | He should not be confused with the Mercator of Mercator 's projection in map-making ( Gerardus Gerhard Kremer , 1512–1594 ) . |
| 7 | Fairness to his creditors demands that he should not be able to deplete his assets in this way in a deliberate attempt to put them beyond the reach of his creditors . |
| 8 | He should remind himself that he has a duty of confidentiality to his client and he should not be afraid to say so to the police . |
| 9 | Faure had no place in his Requiem for hell-fire and roaring lions , and Haydn saw no reason why he should not be cheerful in church . |
| 10 | If , on the other hand , it never occurred to the defendant that the victim was young or mentally abnormal , and he was not aware therefore that he was in a situation of potential risk , he should not be liable for rape providing that he took reasonable steps to ascertain that she did agree to vaginal penetration , for in such a case his conduct is reasonable in the light of the facts as he perceived them to be . |
| 11 | He should n't be disappointed . |
| 12 | " He should n't be alive . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was more merciful that , protected by his innocence , he should n't be able to . |
| 14 | Ee ee he should n't be able to buy them cos he 's only just gone down ! |
| 15 | But he should n't be surprised . |
| 16 | But if he laughed all through a sitting or recited passages of Dante , Rimbaud or Verlaine by heart , that was a dangerous sign , ‘ Then one knew that he should n't be annoyed . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ See Sanders first thing — he should n't be difficult to find — and get the name of his client . |
| 18 | ‘ A name like that … he should n't be difficult to trace . ’ |