Example sentences of "they should [vb infin] [been] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Finally , probably the most decisive factor of all is whether both parties were properly advised legally , and equally skilled technically and commercially , so that they should have been capable of adequately assessing the risks and rewards they were undertaking in the transactions and of producing a contract document which properly reflected this .
2 Several needed help from lifeboat crews , who say they should have been involved in the safety planning of the event , and man found clinging to the moorings at the Woodside landing stage and was taken to hospital .
3 Mind you , if they had Lloyd Allen as a client , they should have been used to anything .
4 All the Duchamp brothers were at this time passionately interested in mathematics ; Jacques Villon was engaged in reading Leonardo 's Trattato della Pittura , while Marcel Duchamp was a close friend of an amateur mathematician named Maurice Princet , so that it is not surprising that they should have been responsible for introducing a more scientific note into Cubist discussions .
5 When Britain 's pound joined the ERM , the British should have consulted their partners about its chosen central parity of DM2.95 ; and when sterling came under pressure , they should have been prepared to raise interest rates sooner than they did .
6 ‘ If they were happy enough to let me through the door then they should have been happy to let me win their draw .
7 They should have been able to live on that , but Teck was worried about losing his status at court if he did .
8 So you 're saying that they were driven more by there political desire for power than by their ideology because had absolute egalitarianism worked then they should have been satisfied with that because then they were fulfilling their ideology .
9 They should have been safe . ’
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