Example sentences of "should [not/n't] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bride 's parents should not be present at this stage . |
| 2 | In principle , it seems unjust that a homicide conviction should not be possible in such a case , if all the other elements can be established and only the ‘ year and a day ’ rule stands in the way . |
| 3 | The first , and weaker test , would exploit one of the central predictions of the rational expectations hypothesis which we explained in chapter 2 : that forecast errors arise from the inherent unpredictability or stochastic nature of the variable and should exhibit no pattern ; that is , they should not be predictable on the basis of any information available at the time the forecast is made ; and the forecast errors should , on average , be zero . |
| 4 | It was felt that once evidence of force had been adduced , it should not be necessary for the prosecution to show in its evidence in chief that the victim had not consented . |
| 5 | Illegal abortions should not be necessary in Russia , but a married woman having an affair might want to keep the abortion quiet . |
| 6 | Pickerage , wide-eyed and somewhat scornful , was clearly incredulous that anybody should not be familiar with the details of his own small world . |
| 7 | ‘ The prince has expressed the wish that his wife should not be bored by an over-long show , ’ Kensington Palace told the BBC . |
| 8 | Non-skiers should not be bored in St Moritz , Arosa , Kitzbuhel , Zermatt , Chamonix or Cortina . |
| 9 | I may prefer that people should not be malicious about me behind my back , even if I am not to know or even be affected by it , and that certain deathbed wishes of mine be carried out without supposing I will persist to be affected by them . |
| 10 | I have not , however , argued that criminal law should not be one of the first subjects studied . |
| 11 | The way confrontation is handled should not be destructive to the counsellee . |
| 12 | Obviously the housing requirements should not be such as to generate harm to environmental interests . |
| 13 | The new church should not be dismayed at trouble within or without in the early stages : it may well come as a result of being on a collision course with the forces of evil who , putting it bluntly , do not want the new church to survive ! |
| 14 | This Britain had done and she should not be dismayed at their majority , but be proud of it , and of the imperialism which had made it possible " . |
| 15 | There was , therefore , great concern that PCBs should not be subject to inadequate heat treatment . |
| 16 | The following should not be subject to commision by the manager : |
| 17 | The committee also said that solicitors who appear in court should not be subject to the same restrictions as barristers , such as the ‘ cab-rank rule ’ requiring barristers to accept cases on a ‘ first come first served ’ basis . |
| 18 | The Commission had taken much of its case from the evidence of the BBFC , differing only in proposing that the private exhibition of films on domestic occasions should not be subject to criminal sanction provided that no person under 16 was present and no charge was made for the exhibition or for anything provided in connection with it . |
| 19 | More importantly , it reiterates the belief that ‘ [ t ] he organisation and content of media should not be subject to centralised political or state bureaucratic control ’ . |
| 20 | It was agreed , for example , that the post-devaluation cuts and the later cuts in rural electrification should not be subject to public announcement . |
| 21 | The suppression of vice is therefore , Lord Devlin argues , just as important as the suppression of subversive activities , and just as it is impossible to point to an area of morality which should not be subject to the law , so there is no area of morality which can be described as ‘ private ’ . |
| 22 | To the extent that non-governmental bodies perform functions which government would have to perform if they did not , there is no good reason why such bodies should not be subject to judicial review in the same way as a government body performing equivalent functions would be . |
| 23 | The question was whether there was any reason , based on the nature of the power or the circumstances of its exercise , why it should not be subject to review for reasonableness and fairness ; in other words , was the decision or action ‘ justiciable ’ ? |
| 24 | All works of art have the inalienable right to live an honorable life and should not be subject to inappropriate interference . |
| 25 | Mr Geoff Dossetter , the Federation 's spokesman said : ‘ It is a buyer 's market out there and there is no reason why women should not be good at selling cars . ’ |
| 26 | Tamati has taken on a lot but life from here should not be dull for Salford 's long-suffering support . |
| 27 | the size of herds or flocks should not be detrimental to the animals , behaviour patterns , ie. they should not be lonely or under severe stress |
| 28 | ‘ A majority government should not be triumphalist in its majority . |
| 29 | Most of them are produced by women , who provide insights that come from relating female experience to a body of writing ; logically , there is no reason why these insights should not be available to male critics with the right sympathies and sensibility , but in practice most of this criticism is by women . |
| 30 | ‘ It seems undesirable that information of this kind should not be available to ordinary readers of the accounts . ’ |