Example sentences of "should [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When your Uncle Jim died , ’ Louise continued , ‘ and I decided to retire up here , it seemed the most natural thing in the world that cousins should want to be close in their widowhood . |
| 2 | It 's only natural she should want to be with kids her own age . ’ |
| 3 | I shall require you to salute me , to speak to me only as vous , and , when you must address me , I should prefer to be called mon colonel . ’ |
| 4 | If job security is what you seek , then besides setting your agreement down in black and white , you should strive to be well organised , willing to discuss your grievances rather than bottling them up and prepared to react flexibly if circumstances change . |
| 5 | So , when I found I wanted to write a book that would reflect a little on whether we should strive to be perfect or settle for the second-best but practical , I realised I would have to have a murder that was in some way imperfect . |
| 6 | Your notes , however , should strive to be concise and need to be stripped of unnecessary words . |
| 7 | The counsellor should seek to be as warm , supportive and caring as possible . |
| 8 | The essay should seek to be an objective discussion ; references to " I " do not lead to that impression . |
| 9 | Argument has been addressed to me as to how that sum should fall to be represented in the damages awarded , bearing in mind that it has been substantially discharged by an interim payment and that it will not inure to any log term benefit of the plaintiff . |
| 10 | Another criticism he makes is that it has an uneasy relationship with such values as justice which some people should consider to be important in human life . |
| 11 | An uneasy feeling that we should wait to be asked back before we repeat an invitation , coupled with the rarity with which we have the energy to entertain , can reduce social intercourse to an annual gesture rather than a matter of maturing friendships . |
| 12 | That it should need to be exorcised in that fashion , however , or at all , still leaves it looking potent , richly formative and far from innocent , and the fiction that ultimately emerges from it is ex-academic in much the same sense that it is ex-socialist . |
| 13 | The Staff Guide offers advice on this matter and recommends to staff when a module should need to be double marked . |
| 14 | Always keep spare tap washers handy and replace the washers regularly — no tap should need to be turned off with force . |
| 15 | One can understand why people at risk should wish to have these things , but not why they should expect to be given them free . |
| 16 | A mother may set out some crayons and paper or plasticine while she gets on with the ironing but she should expect to be interrupted and asked for help . |
| 17 | In the meantime , we should expect to be surprised very often . |
| 18 | ( Related to that view is the naive assumption of certain sociobiologists that sociobiology should expect to be more closely related to social anthropology than to other social sciences , because the ‘ primitive ’ peoples studied by social anthropology are nearer to nature than human beings who live in large industrialized societies . ) |
| 19 | A measure of the scheme 's effectiveness is that the United Kingdom has the fifth highest drug prices in Europe ( about where we should expect to be ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Any man with access to sensitive information , such as Major Maxim , should expect to be put under surveillance purely as a matter of routine . |
| 21 | Causing grievous bodily harm to someone now you might say that 's a very serious offence which you should expect to be prosecuted . |
| 22 | But the right balance is not something which partners should expect to be able to settle at the outset in such a way as will necessarily be appropriate throughout the life of the firm . |
| 23 | The overriding criterion — that the service of a summons is impracticable or inappropriate — does not even have to be based on objective grounds ; it is enough that it should appear to be so to the constable making the arrest . |
| 24 | That juries and courts should appear to be taking an increasingly lenient view of these acts of retribution is more disturbing again . |
| 25 | I 'm not demanding we spend the entire weekend locked in a clinch , ’ Vitor said impatiently when she started to protest , ‘ but we should appear to be on good terms . |
| 26 | The intention was that the electors should choose to be governed by persons they recognized as better and wiser than themselves , who might well understand better than the people themselves what their real interests were , and whose decisions the people would therefore accept . |
| 27 | You should plan to be at your FREELINK pick-up point not later than 15 minutes before scheduled departure . |
| 28 | I think I should like to be your wife . ’ |
| 29 | I should like to be sure that the child Barbara is carrying is my grandchild , not your bastard . ’ |
| 30 | The question we should like to be able to answer is , therefore , what suddenly created such a new , unheard of , situation in the religious life of antiquity . |