Example sentences of "should [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no known reason why a commission should not sit in parallel with criminal proceedings . |
| 2 | She could not find any reason why Benny Hogan from the shop across the road and Eve Malone from the convent up the town should not sit and drink coffee in her bay window , but somehow she would have preferred to keep the space for wealthier and more important matrons of Knockglen . |
| 3 | There is also the oft repeated argument that we should not sit down together at the table until after unity is accomplished . |
| 4 | We , as members , should not sit on their desks and tell them exactly where to go . |
| 5 | We are taught that we should not love ourselves — that self-love is conceited , vain or selfish — and obediently , we learn to dislike and criticise ourselves . |
| 6 | Many religious ethics teach that people should not love sexually , but cultivate feelings of affection for all mankind . |
| 7 | One can only assume that your club committee have the welfare of both the fishery and your fish at heart which we should not knock . |
| 8 | I think perhaps we should not speculate beforehand . |
| 9 | An example of the objectionable content of the draft was the call for relaxation of controls over private sector housing : ‘ local authorities should not lay down requirements on the mix of house types , provision of garages , internal standards , sizes of private gardens , location of houses on plots and in relation to each other , provision of private open space . ’ |
| 10 | In 1945 most opinion in the allied countries held that Japan must be wholly disarmed and that Japan should not possess armed forces in future . |
| 11 | When the Foreign Office List made its first appearance " it was strongly objected to in certain quarters , as likely to afford information to the general public with regard to the office , which they thought it advisable they should not possess , and much information was for a time withheld " . |
| 12 | Yet there was no good reason why it should not recover . |
| 13 | Ranter writing should not displace Paradise Lost ; Arden of Faversham and domestic tragedy should not merely replace The Spanish Tragedy and court-centred drama . |
| 14 | Contractors and skip firms should not deliver skips to customers unless the customer ( whose responsibility it is ) has obtained a permit from the roads department . |
| 15 | This time , Reg Akehurst , who was taken by surprise when Solidasarock won the SGB Chase at Ascot , will be expecting his seven-year-old to improve on that performance in today 's event at Newbury and there is no reason why this promising young chaser should not continue to progress . |
| 16 | There is no reason why we should not continue our activities , if we choose to do so , after our partners have retired . |
| 17 | Because generations of hard working and poorly-paid working people have shown enormous resilience and good humour in coping with substandard housing , polluted air , lifeless local rivers and streams and degraded surroundings , it does n't mean that efforts to improve air quality , the quality of rivers and also , no less , the quality of the surrounding landscape should not continue to be made with all the imagination and expertise the community has at its disposal . |
| 18 | Sports players should not continue to play with open wounds . |
| 19 | Judge Donald Herrod added : ‘ This is a very dramatic turn of events and it is right that this prosecution should not continue . ’ |
| 20 | Companies should not continue to be penalised by a reference to an inherent uncertainty in the auditors ' report when the directors have given it prominent and full disclosure . |
| 21 | Voronov-Vaux 's red vision was his vulnerable flaw ; for the Imperium might just decide puristically that a mutant should not continue as governor . |
| 22 | It may be asked why , if we have had this enormous devolution and if Parliament , with a unitary system , is able to respond to the distinct needs of Scotland , this should not continue . |
| 23 | 4.1 Our proposals for reform recognise the importance of two principles : First , a landlord or a tenant of property should not continue to enjoy rights nor be under any obligation arising from a lease once he has parted with all interest in the property . |
| 24 | well I , I anticipated that the management charges would rise over and above inflation and I suggested we should , should not continue with that statement |
| 25 | He added : ‘ There is no reason , barring unexpected changes in crude oil pricing and dollar/pound exchange rates , why Premier should not continue to prosper in 1993 and subsequently . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Voluntary groups are providing the services already and there 's no reason they should not continue to do so on behalf of the SSD , he says . |
| 27 | It should not consist merely of spending money , in terms of the framework established earlier . |
| 28 | They should not consist of invitations to comment directly on the policies of other parties in the House , for which the Prime Minister has no responsibility . |
| 29 | They should not consist purely of lower order questions , " What ? " |
| 30 | The Tax Faculty reiterates its earlier proposed solutions that the group income provisions should be extended to include dividends paid to a parent resident in another member state and that dividends derived by a UK intermediate holding company from an EC subsidiary should not attract ACT if the ultimate parent is not located in a member state . |