Example sentences of "we should [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one area where we are not doing as much as we think we should is the Midlands ; that is why we are opening there . ’ |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Though it hardly seems possible , spring-flowering bulbs are on sale again , and if we want to bring some winter cheer to the home we should be planting them now . |
| 4 | And certainly that other main arm of executive control — the army — seems little better at this than the police , for the number of participant accounts of their deep structures remains negligible , supporting McCabe 's ( 1980 ) contention that we should be asking of all of these costly institutions , ‘ who is to be controlled by whom and for what reasons ? ’ |
| 5 | One of the conditions for ascribing to oneself experiences of a mind-independent reality , Kant argued , was that we should be capable of distinguishing between those sequences of perceptions ( if you like , ‘ representations delivered up by the input systems ’ ) which are determined by the movement of objects and those which are determined by our own movements . |
| 6 | I am not suggesting that we should be completely sceptical about the value of introspection . |
| 7 | First , we should be able to explain a relatively large set of observations in terms of a much smaller set of more general theoretical principles . |
| 8 | Freud , in Civilization and its Discontents , advanced the profoundly historicist suggestion that we should be cautious about interpreting the miseries of earlier times , since what now looks like unacceptable suffering may have felt less so in a different culture . |
| 9 | So if , as seems likely , we have to wait a long time for a follow up to the triumphant Glyndebourne production , we should be all the more grateful for occasions like the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 's concert performance ( sponsored by English Estates ) . |
| 10 | Had Germany taken the ‘ purist ’ line after the war , we should be without the wonders of Bruchsal and the Residenz at Wurzburg , and the great churches of Nurnberg would look like the clean , well-designed — but totally anaemic - interiors of those in Kassel and Stuttgart . |
| 11 | We should be looking for a market-based solution to our problems , not snooping in people 's backyards to check out what kind of barbecue they are using . ’ |
| 12 | Does Bellow think we should be amazed ? |
| 13 | But feasibility studies have been carried out and we should be in a position to act when we know what is expected . ’ |
| 14 | It is absurd to disagree about whether we should be fixed to the Deutschmark or not , while behaving as if we were . |
| 15 | In his defence of Rushdie 's right to publish , Mr Torode argues we should be allowed to ‘ shock and insult and to ridicule as a way of testing the faith of our forefathers ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ We should be saying to the Secretary of State : ‘ If you want fees say so , go to the electorate and ask them . ’ |
| 17 | We need to know how to see the world as the Christian Fathers saw it ; and the purpose of reascending to origins is that we should be able to return , with greater spiritual knowledge , to our own situation . |
| 18 | If so , we should be told . |
| 19 | ‘ Another half hour should see this job finished ; we should be back at the FRG asleep by first light . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'll take a quick break for some tea and then we should be ready to run it up in another hour , ’ he briefs Captain Tuck-Brown , who has come across to check on progress before going home for the day . |
| 21 | Peter Kennard 's photomontages are powerful anti-war images and as such we should be pleased to have them around . |
| 22 | We should be told . |
| 23 | If this annual clear up round the farm did n't take place , we should be in a hell of a mess by now . |
| 24 | I think we should be told . |
| 25 | This is not the same as ‘ force-feeding ’ doctrine ; one can sympathise with Jayne Greenwell 's reservations , but we should be careful what gets thrown out with the bathwater . |
| 26 | But we should be able to achieve that without cutting back in those regions where needs , though still real enough , are rather less acute . ’ |
| 27 | But we should be grateful for small mercies . ’ |
| 28 | We should be helping to conserve the environment and discouraging the unnecessary destruction of trees . ’ |
| 29 | He admitted , though , that Labour was seen as too producer-oriented : ‘ We should be able to give a value to unpolluted air , clean water , a safe environment , as the end-products of economic activity . ’ |
| 30 | If they were not told the embarrassing source of these words — and perhaps even if they were — most Asians would give a vigorous nod of approval to the sentiments expressed by Neville Chamberlain when Germany annexed the Sudetenland in 1938 : ‘ How horrible , fantastic , incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing . ’ |