Example sentences of "that he should [not/n't] be " in BNC.

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1 Sir Derek , however , sat tight , believing that he should not be blamed for the £215m fraud perpetrated against the company .
2 Wise men thought that he should not be too near old haunts and old friends .
3 With the exception of Michael Colborne , everyone within the palace was telling Charles that he should not be getting involved .
4 ‘ The English are great lovers of themselves , and of everything belonging to them ’ , wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century ; ‘ they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say that he ‘ looks like an Englishman' ’ and that ‘ it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ’ , words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major ; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau , who visited England in 1484 , found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world .
5 We are , therefore , anxious that he should not be thrown away in some other role and I hope that any plan he has made will be carefully examined so as to ensure that as far as possible he does not do something foolhardy .
6 But as I say , he unselfishly insisted that he should not be given a place on any scheme in which he had n't taken a personal part .
7 The Tribune Group voted against John Prescott 's challenge to Hattersley for the deputy leadership in 1988 after ruling that he should not be permitted to speak .
8 For example , s. 59 FSA 1986 permits the SIB , if it believes any individual is not a fit and proper person , to direct that he should not be employed in connection with investment business by any authorised or exempted person .
9 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 .
10 However , Weatherbury people began to protest publicly that he should not be held responsible for the crime .
11 He posed the question whether the disadvantage of a judge speaking on matters which in one form or another — such as unfair dismissal from employment or from a trade union — might well come before him when he was on the bench was outweighed by the advantage of hearing his views or by the argument that he should not be prevented , by convention or otherwise , from speaking in Parliament on such a matter .
12 At Plymouth , for example , where in 1941 he was invited to prepare a redevelopment plan for the city , in cooperation with the City Engineer , H. Paton Watson , his starting point was that he should not be constrained by local authority boundaries : in his view Plymouth extended six miles and more beyond the city centre and should be planned on that basis .
13 Professor Williams defends the man 's right to utter such threats and considers that he should not be within the section 's scope :
14 The Police have warned that he should not be approached .
15 I was n't there trying to tell him that he was doing something wrong or that he should n't be doing it .
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 I 'd asked that he should n't be bottle fed with my expressed milk as it can be more difficult to establish breastfeeding if a baby is confused by a teat .
18 Gently advised that he should n't be there the sunbather retorted , ‘ You 're right , I should be in Malaga ’ .
19 He fell asleep , but hours later he woke up and felt again — as he 'd felt for a moment in the hall when he 'd arrived — that he should n't be in this house .
20 And a man who described himself as an animal right activist , but insisted that he should n't be idenfied , watched today 's court case closely .
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