Example sentences of "should not [be] treated [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since it was desirable that penitents should not be treated with rigour by one bishop and with mercy by a neighbouring bishop , a common policy was needed . |
| 2 | ACAS has long recommended that criminal offences outside employment should not be treated as automatic reasons for dismissal . |
| 3 | A psychologist who helped organise the German survey said : ‘ The double bed should not be treated as a self-service supermarket for sex . |
| 4 | The discount should not be treated as an asset . |
| 5 | Although this chapter and the next are about sex differences in the use of language , they should not be treated as an exhaustive catalogue of research findings on that subject . |
| 6 | The suggestion is often made that a couple should not be treated as if they were living as husband and wife unless the man is actually giving the woman financial support . |
| 7 | Although Figure 4 looks like a sociogram it should not be treated as such . |
| 8 | But what is more important than anything else is that they should not be treated as packages and removed from one place to another and back again because the grown-ups are involved in a dispute and have overlooked that children have rights , and that children 's rights are to remain somewhere until after calm and sensible consideration and a decision by a court that the particular place in which they are living is changed by the decision of the court to them living somewhere else . |
| 9 | Major changes in the way we conceptualize Nature certainly took place at this time , but historians now suspect that the emergence of Darwin 's theory should not be treated as the only watershed dividing the old way of thinking from the new . |
| 10 | It is a nonsense to say that an SBU is a ‘ dog ’ but that it should not be treated as a ‘ dog ’ because it is not really a ‘ dog ’ at all . |
| 11 | That puling creature has the gall to remind me that Stephen is a consecrated king and should not be treated as a felon . |
| 12 | Expert private customers can elect that they should not be treated as private customers ; if they do , they are non-private customers . |
| 13 | We emphasise once again that , although we can regularly identify such structural markers , their appearance in discourse should not be treated in any way as ‘ rule-governed ’ . |
| 14 | It captures the idea that humanity should be respected for its own sake , so that people should not be treated in organizations solely as the means in an economizing process . |
| 15 | In recent years , it has become common for local political party caucuses to threaten to withdraw endorsement as candidates from Members who voice views unacceptable to them and there seems to be no reason in principle why this should not be treated by the House as a contempt the essence of which , in this respect , is to deny to a Member the freedom to exercise his power as a Member in the manner dictated by his own personal judgment . |
| 16 | So it takes into account er what what the development plan should be doing which is to make adequate reasonable allocation in the context of the the the broad strategy of the structure plan erm and I do n't see any reason to believe that once that has been done erm the remaining plan outside those areas should n't be treated as open countryside . |
| 17 | Remember that adults should n't be treated in the same way as you would treat children . |
| 18 | I was angry , too ; we were adults and should n't be treated like schoolboys . |