Example sentences of "[conj] should [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Major questions about the individual and society have preoccupied thinkers in all periods of history : the philosophers of Ancient Greece and Rome reflected upon the way society operated and/or should operate , and for centuries afterwards social and political theorists and philosophers applied themselves to similar questions . |
| 2 | Or should want to know . |
| 3 | No court can or should give him direction on such a matter . |
| 4 | No court can or should give him direction upon such a matter . |
| 5 | In other proceedings , however , the limitation period of six years gives , or should give , the local authority ample time to sue even after an appeal against their demand . |
| 6 | But all this did not yet add up to a widespread expectation in London that Anglo-American relations would or should retain their wartime intimacy . |
| 7 | No one could or should pretend that nursing in the future will resemble nursing in the past . |
| 8 | There was some slight discussion whether the British should keep Canada or should choose the large French sugar islands like Martinique and Guadeloupe ; very few politicians close to the centre of power thought of giving Canada back to France , but the issue underlined the fact that Canada was unlikely to provide much revenue for the British treasury directly , and certainly would not provide the amount of revenue that sugar for re-export would give at a time when Britain used for consumption or for manufacture all that her West Indian islands could produce . |
| 9 | No set of contract conditions can or should protect the seller totally against his own incompetence . |
| 10 | Neither lexicographers nor political theorists can or should hope to halt this process of constant revision , although they may legitimately aspire to guide or nudge it in one direction rather than another . |
| 11 | It is also what your collection people , sales people , delivery people and the grapevine tell you or should tell you about your customers . |
| 12 | The most that Europe can hope to achieve , or should aim for , is an expanded economic free trade area made up of sovereign states all contributing to a cultural diversity that is economically stable and ecologically sustainable . |
| 13 | Excuses not to do the work we think we might or should do , excuses not to be kind or considerate or whatever it is we feel we should be ? |
| 14 | The mark of the adjudicator is simply that he is called upon to decide what parties in dispute should have done or should do in the circumstances of a particular case . |
| 15 | For example , if users hold excessive expectations about whether accounts can indicate subsequent financial collapse , that will create an expectations gap regardless of what auditors can or should do about it . |
| 16 | If duties are what you must or should do , wishes are what you want to do . |
| 17 | Sometimes this is no more than a description of what has to be done but sometimes it incorporates how the operator does it or should do it . |
| 18 | You own two very expensive fish , or should do if they 've survived their last attack of acne . |
| 19 | And the final balance represents the position at the end of the or should do . |
| 20 | Manners change , and the verdict must ultimately rest on the jury 's sense of what their own community would or should tolerate on environmental grounds at a particular moment in social history . |
| 21 | Arguments may continue at varying levels about what completing the internal market does or should mean . |
| 22 | Those with lower incomes pay , or should pay , a lower share of their income in tax . |
| 23 | I do not believe that Scotland can or should avoid its international obligations , but I object to the fact that we are apparently being singled out as the one country that will be the nuclear laundry for everyone else . |
| 24 | Parents , it is proposed , will determine whether a particular school should opt out of Local Authority control , or should stay in . |
| 25 | Now going back into the Hebrew scriptures , you 'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel , an idea was there long before the days of Jesus and the Apostles and people 's lives were involved in its state , even in those days , let's just let us have a look at one , Isaiah forty two eighteen to twenty now this terms it slightly different , but when you look at it and analyze it , you realize he 's talking about exactly the same thing , it 's regarding the nation of Israel who turned away from Jehovah , they were n't doing what they should be doing , or should 've been doing as he 's pleading with them look there , that look here , here you deaf ones , well we know the nation of Israel were n't all physically deaf , they were like we are , perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them , but |
| 26 | But he said Labour did not agree that Britain could or should abandon development , either for itself or for the developing world . |
| 27 | It is difficult to distinguish cause and effect ; and even if we could be sure that the low level of orienting in the pre-exposed subjects was responsible for their retarded conditioning , it would still be necessary to explain why it is that the OR should return when reinforced training begins . |
| 28 | Until comparatively recently there was a general belief or tacit agreement within the community that the later years of life were a time of " all passion spent " — that sex stopped or should stop with the menopause in women and that it continued into later years only in old men who were awarded the epithet " dirty " . |
| 29 | The analysis reveals the information that could or should exist if the model is a fair reflection of the real world activity . |
| 30 | It is inappropriate to act as though consensus exists ( or should exist ) over good practice , and doubly inappropriate to expect conformity to a particular version of it . |