Example sentences of "should [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | The causal sequence is unimportant , that is , whether the elation or depression came before or after the rise or fall , as the importance of the behaviour would be that ‘ he should stay down quietly and not try to make a comeback for some considerable time ’ ! |
| 2 | • The Japanese motoring industry is meanwhile considering if it should slow down its expansion into the luxury car market , due to the Gulf crisis hitting fuel prices . |
| 3 | ‘ They should slow down . ’ |
| 4 | The merger with the CBSI should slow down the fall in membership and thus the subscription base , though the eventual impact on reserves is hard to forecast . |
| 5 | ‘ The heavy rain after the dry weather we 've been having makes the roads more slippery , and drivers should slow down accordingly . |
| 6 | I think the government should slow down on all its activities at the present time and concentrate on getting the economy right , and everything else put on the back burner . |
| 7 | The emergence of such standards , and the ability to re-use programs written in conventional languages , should bring down the last barriers to wide acceptance of parallel computing . |
| 8 | This should bring down barriers caused by a lack of knowledge and by technical jargon and encourage users to become involved in the technological change . |
| 9 | Now I think we should bring down the curtain on this little episode , and go to bed . |
| 10 | They do n't see why you should bring down such a beautiful tree . |
| 11 | She knew hat she would be flaunted before the whole of Northumberland if her mother had her way , so , although aware that good form dictated that she should dress down in the country , she took a deep breath and faced the fact that , for their first few outings at least , she would have to wear what Nora called her ‘ dressy ’ clothes . |
| 12 | As they part company , Gregson will surely find ample work as a respected producer and musician , while Collister 's voice , sultry and robust , should break down the doors it fails to open . |
| 13 | And if Elinor 's mother should break down he would sob operatically and people would say to each other , as he stood by the flowers afterwards , ‘ My , my . |
| 14 | Community nurses and health visitors are paid a mileage allowance but you will also want to know who pays for what if you should break down or have an accident , and whether you can claim an allowance against income tax for general depreciation . |
| 15 | A second police car followed close behind in case the first should break down . |
| 16 | It was thought , on the contrary , that if the first car should break down — and if the people knew whom it contained — there would be a spontaneous outburst of healthy anger . |
| 17 | However , there seems to be no reason why it should break down until the gravitational field becomes strong enough that quantum gravitational effects are important . |
| 18 | If that preference is not present , there would be no balancing force to counteract the advantage of smaller tail size , and the equilibrium should break down . |
| 19 | What if he should break down ? |
| 20 | The Bill does nothing to increase the powers of the courts if order should break down inside a prison , although it touches in a new way on some of the matters relating to aiding and abetting an escape outside a prison . |
| 21 | Whilst the provisions of the agreement should when drafted accurately reflect what the partners desire to happen in certain specified events or , at any rate , what the partners may have agreed as a satisfactory basis for subsequent negotiation or a sufficient fall-back position if those negotiations should break down , they should be kept under regular review . |
| 22 | That would do , but they should ease down when they come past , but they did n't , they never took no notice . |
| 23 | And Dickens does mention both , I am told , ’ Auguste added anxiously in case Rose too should look down upon this departure from the true Dickensian menu . |
| 24 | Now Michael Portillo is one of the Tory high flyers , for anyone that do n't know who he is , he 's a Tory high flyer who finds it very difficult to look down , very difficult to look down on those but he should look down before he makes a such statements . |
| 25 | The process of experimentation , he adds , should narrow down flexibilities over time . |
| 26 | Faced with such evidence , Marc Thompson — an IMS research fellow who worked on both studies — believes that the Department of Health should tone down its enthusiasm for PRP in the health service , despite the Citizens ' Charter pledge to introduce merit pay into the public sector . |
| 27 | The demonstrators again demanded that Mr Krenz should step down . |
| 28 | One of the opposition 's chief demands is that President Gustav Husak should step down because of his association with the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 . |
| 29 | Van Zyl should step down , as may Snell . |
| 30 | Theology in all its guises should step down from its exalted position and take its place alongside all other human activities and contribute to an autonomous religion only what is relevant , and that with no more authority than is accorded any other sphere of human endeavour . |