Example sentences of "should not be [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two judges found the evidence of a contract too thin to grant an injunction on " balance of convenience " principles ; the third , Lord Justice Kerr , said that in principle an injunction should not be granted to stop a programme which depended on topicality and timing . |
| 2 | It would be almost impossible to ban such remarks in a court of law , but there is no reason why a judge should not be empowered to say that , in an appropriate case , the name of the person maligned should not be repeated in the press . |
| 3 | These should not be intended to duplicate the deed of indemnity but to obtain information as to possible taxation problems and where things have been done in the past which could , depending on what is done in the future , give problems after completion . |
| 4 | It is notable , however , that many of those who form the audience for these books have continued to regard generic he as ‘ just a rule of grammar ’ which should not be altered to suit the transient whims of feminists , though they may feel under some pressure from certain quarters to use nonsexist forms in their writing . |
| 5 | It would be naive for anyone to suggest that politicians in should not be seeking to gain the maximum advantage from the European Community . |
| 6 | Whatever the curriculum there is no reason in principle why some appropriate means should not be devised to assess the extent to which any pupil has achieved some desirable level of understanding , knowledge or competence as a consequence of following that curriculum . |
| 7 | With this in mind it is for consideration whether such forms should not be redesigned to separate the disclaimer of liability on the part of the hospital from what really matters , namely the declaration by the patient of his decision with a full appreciation of the possible consequences , the latter being expressed in the simplest possible terms and emphasised by a different and larger type face , by underlining , the employment of coloured print or otherwise . |
| 8 | Loopholes , omissions or ambiguities should not be exploited to gain an advantage incompatible with the effective control of risk . |
| 9 | You should not be made to feel inferior or unusual because you have respect for your considerable responsibilities . |
| 10 | In sardonic undertones , the guide- lines suggest ‘ the part-timer is unlikely to be happy given just the undesirable work that no one else wants to do ’ and ‘ should not be made to feel obliged to work extra hours . ’ |
| 11 | Labour social security spokesman Donald Dewar said : ‘ Claimants should not be made to pay for Government 's economic incompetence . ’ |
| 12 | Ba pe was sacked from the Cabinet early in May : Aung San told the public that his Ministers ‘ enjoyed an untarnished reputation for incorruptibility and honesty of purpose [ and ] should not be made to suffer on account of anyone who strayed from the path ’ . |
| 13 | But whether people should not be called to account for continuing to hold such a picture today is another question . |
| 14 | More impatient liberationists argue that since most of the products , typically cosmetics , are used voluntarily then animals should not be killed to protect the users from possible harmful consequences . |
| 15 | Now , I do not pretend for one moment that children should not be taught to add , subtract , read and think logically . |
| 16 | However , his teacher warned that proficiency in conversational language should not be assumed to equate with proficiency in cognitive or ‘ academic ’ language . |
| 17 | , John ( d. ante Feb. 1315 ) , popularly regarded as a saint , should not be assumed to have come from the village in Kent of that name . |
| 18 | We should not be trying to create an image that school is little more than some form of elaborate and expensive ‘ Trivial pursuit ’ ( Sullivan 1988 ) . |
| 19 | Enough has been revealed about the antics of the Monarchy in the past few weeks to suggest that people in palaces should not be trying to tell the rest of us how to behave . |
| 20 | What is important is that they should not be trying to enter publishing on an uncommercial basis , especially when there are such clear and obvious shortcomings in their performance in almost all the areas that are quite clearly their responsibility , and on which the future of British tennis depends . |
| 21 | He emphasized , however , that the reductions in Soviet military personnel , currently estimated by Western experts to total no more than 7,800 , should not be utilized to compromise Cuba 's security . |
| 22 | FIMBRA had also concluded that their sole proprietor members should not be authorised to hold client money . |
| 23 | The absence of a substantive right to a particular benefit should not lead to the conclusion that procedural rights are inapplicable , and the term legitimate expectation should not be manipulated to reach this end . |
| 24 | If there are alternative theft and handling counts , the jurors should not be instructed to convict of the offence which it seems more probable to them that the accused committed . |
| 25 | I say this because I am anxious that having decided to reject the modernist notion that there is no Devil — and therefore no Christian dualism — we should not be tempted to fall into the opposite error of conceiving our adversary as no more than a fiend . |
| 26 | Farmers should not be tempted to risk their own lives , or those of others , by cutting corners . |
| 27 | But amateur explorers should not be tempted to approach the hole too closely . |
| 28 | This critique should not be understood to imply that experimental referential communication research is wasted effort . |
| 29 | Of course the church should not be exposed to gossip and contumely . |
| 30 | ‘ If conditions are not safe , drivers should not be asked to drive . ’ |