Example sentences of "[conj] it should " in BNC.

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1 It is true that we are more enlightened than we were ; there is a public which has learnt to smile at the reviewer who declares that a line ‘ will not scan ’ , or that it contains a ‘ trochee ’ where it should have had an ‘ iamb ’ , without considering whether it was ever intended to ‘ scan ’ , or whether there is anything in English verse which can be treated as the absolute equivalent of a Greek or Latin trochee .
2 ‘ We seek the power in order to do all that , to stop being spectators and start being negotiators , to take our country off the sidelines and put it in the mainstream of advance where it should rightly be .
3 Where it should have tried harder , however , is with taming mechanical noise levels .
4 The administration and Congress agree on the need to help the new or emerging democracies but disagree on almost everything else : how much aid should be given , where it should come from and who should control it .
5 It then becomes the dominant element in the design , just where it should be , near the geometric centre .
6 On the one hand , Hawaiians were proud that the climax of the Tour was back where it should be .
7 God/dess has no interest in our begging for forgiveness , bearing crosses and praying to be allowed into heaven , but is urging us to dance , to celebrate , to love — to create a heaven on earth , where it should have been all along .
8 ‘ Nothing means more to me than to be here with this bunch of guys and bring the Cup back where it should be . ’
9 As with all special paints , read the label carefully to determine how and where it should be used .
10 Where it should be visionary , it is broadly neutral .
11 Lowell instituted a search for this unknown planet , confidently predicting exactly where it should be .
12 Of the two , Last of the Summer Wine ( E1 5b ) is the finer and better protected ; continually interesting with the crux just where it should be — at the top .
13 It was a nauseating night for those who like to enjoy their football where it should be watched — inside a stadium — rather than on satellite television .
14 In his opinion , the group simply needs to cut headcount by 50,000 this year to be back where it should be .
15 Measures that drive up the costs of waste disposal may appear to fulfil the principle that polluters should pay for the dirt they create ; but they also encourage waste to end up where it should not .
16 But the British collection should stay in the Tate , which is a suitable building , and the modern stuff should be moved to a specially designed emporium where it should feel at home .
17 Agency is used in systems of municipal law to maximise commercial dealings by avoiding the restraints of privity , and imposing liability where it should lie .
18 He was twenty — well this June — and he still had n't walked out with a girlfriend , and yet his mother was moving in very exalted circles , where it should have been possible for him to meet the pick of the debutantes .
19 A convenient time , with the light fading , for all the brothers who were engaged in copying or reading had abandoned their books for the evening , leaving the prior to ensure that everything was decently replaced exactly where it should be .
20 It would focus his attention where it should be focused : on finding Samantha .
21 Arthur Rackham : A life with illustration , puts the spotlight right back where it should be .
22 The dress was tight in the right places , and shiny where it should n't have been .
23 Though what I did notice was a motor bicycle parked where it should n't have been — outside Wheeler 's .
24 While she has /r/ in person where it should be in JC , she has pronounced /r/ at the end of mother , where Jamaicans usually do not pronounce it , and at the end of Jamaica , where historically it is absent : in this last case displaying the type of hypercorrection for which John F. Kennedy ( a speaker of the r-less Boston English ) was famous .
25 Fast free kicks are ok ( as along as the ball is stopped I think ) what was very illegal was the fact that the free kick was taken from a COMPLETELY different spot to where the foul took place , so the Leeds player were ( justifiably ) waiting for the ball to be placed where it should have been .
26 Now we are trying to make sure the money goes where it should .
27 She avoided a car trying to turn right where it should not , and turned left .
28 A bailiff had found a pig wandering where it should n't and , according to city regulations , had promptly cut the animal 's throat .
29 It should meet BS 5446 Part 1 or it should have the Kitemark on it .
30 ‘ Having kids is a privilege , a joy , or it should be , and , by God , I 'll get the County down on you if I see you strike that boy of yours on the head again !
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