Example sentences of "it should not [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only is AT&T probably paying too much , it should not have been trying to buy the firm in the first place . |
| 2 | It should not have been a surprise that companies sought to use that range of permissible techniques to present their results in the best light . |
| 3 | The IMF 's attempts to help Russia , says Mr Sachs , have been ‘ a disappointing performance of a task that it should not have been given . ’ |
| 4 | It should not have been privatised . ’ |
| 5 | The Government should have made a statement on the way in which the police national computer operates ; it should not have been necessary for me or the National Council for Civil Liberties to prise information from them . |
| 6 | It should not have been allowed . |
| 7 | It should not have been allowed to happen . |