Example sentences of "[modal v] [conj] should " in BNC.
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| 1 | If duties are what you must or should do , wishes are what you want to do . |
| 2 | It is not , however , possible to complain about whether such and such a point should or should not have been awarded . |
| 3 | But they are bankers , not industrialists ; they are scarcely more qualified than any other director to tell managers what they should or should not be doing . |
| 4 | In the next few weeks the scientists of the West were split into two groups : should or should they not try to make an H-bomb ? |
| 5 | It may be that we need to offer love , support and encouragement rather than using anger to force a child into what we believe they should or should not do . |
| 6 | On polling day , it is the responsibility of the polling officer to decide whether someone who is under the influence of drink or drugs , or someone who has a severe learning disability , should or should not vote . |
| 7 | All information available is necessarily historical but as the past is mainly a reliable guide for the future it is useful in helping you decide whether you should or should n't give credit . |
| 8 | My first big act of rebellion against cultural expectations of what an Indian woman should or should n't do was when I left home in the face of family opposition to go into higher education . |
| 9 | Recent arguments about whether the level of state pensions has or has not risen over time relative to average adult per capita income , about whether pensions should or should not be more generous today , and about how criteria for change in the level of pension payments should be set , are all important , but they are essentially distinct from the issue of whether the receipt of state benefits necessarily creates a dependency in the recipient which would not otherwise exist . |
| 10 | As the Committee reminds us , ‘ prepublication censorship ( i.e. today 's broadcasting regulation ) … has no place in a free society … . ’ and there can not be any justifications for imposing limits on what should or should not be published or printed . |
| 11 | The debate on whether insider dealing should or should not be regulated would appear to revolve around difference in moral values and differences as to the factual consequences of insider dealing . |
| 12 | Lay members , experienced in industrial relations , know what an employer should or should not put up with , equally they know what an employee can expect . |
| 13 | If organization were to mirror art ( and there is no reason why it should or should not ) , Williams ( 1989 : 52 ) would have us rediscover organizational ‘ community ’ in the neglected , alternative tradition of the past century . |
| 14 | After two or more years ' investigation and the resolution of differences about which locations should or should not be included , a plan was submitted to the Governing Senate in St Petersburg in 1746 . |
| 15 | The question whether artificial ventilation should or should not be applied is , so the argument proceeds , an entirely medical one with which the courts will not interfere . |
| 16 | So far as the Cossacks were concerned , just as much as for the British , the overriding question was not whether certain individuals should be excluded from repatriation because they held non-Soviet passports , but whether the various formations of " Cossacks " as a whole should or should not be repatriated . |
| 17 | In the processes of Parliament there will be much consideration whether a Bill should or should not in one form or another become an enactment . |
| 18 | As " designer " , synthetic illegal drugs became progressively more powerful , there is no end to the argument of where one should draw the line between what should or should not be legally prescribed . |
| 19 | The House has not focused its mind yet on whether any name should be published , or whether only some names should or should not be published . |
| 20 | The House itself will take a decision on the matter later this evening when the Question will be put whether the Bill should or should not be considered in Committee of the whole House . |
| 21 | That is to say , whether it should or should not be a republic . |
| 22 | Consequently , another aspect of the debate about corporation has been whether a particular country should or should not be given this label . |
| 23 | What right does any individual have to tell other people what they should or should n't do ? |
| 24 | And our comments are to what you should or should not include erm as an environmental discount . |
| 25 | The problem is Chairman , that , that the Veterinary Products Committee are the only ones that can allow , that , that , sorry , that advise the Minister on what preparations should or should not be er , used . |
| 26 | It 's not been for us to tell people what they should or should n't eat or do anything with , because the , in , in one respect that 's a nann nannying attitude from er , whether it 's the legislators saying we 're not going to approve the right legislation so that you have that information , but on the other hand by manufacturers and others saying you trust us . |
| 27 | The allegations were all based on the opinion of another expert surveyor and related to what matters should or should not be taken into consideration . |
| 28 | Perhaps I should also say that the panel has not made up it 's mind yet about whether there should or should not be a new settlement of course . |
| 29 | It 's not my place to tell you whom you should or should n't invite . |
| 30 | The principle of whether features should or should not be binary ( i.e. ‘ + ’ or ‘ — ’ , ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ ) has been much argued about , but this is too big a question to go into here ( Hyman ( 1975 ) , pp. 32–3 , 55–8 ) . |