Example sentences of "should a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 During the surface interval , the fly time screen displays one of four sets of information : Warning/do not fly for … hrs … mins ; safe to fly/time to tissue desat … hrs … mins ; safe to fly/tissues desaturated ; and , should a decompression incident have occurred : Warning/do not fly .
2 He might visit from time to time should a story miserable enough to write about crop up , but there was no way he was going to edit the paper from there .
3 Remember to have a neighbour on call so that the unit may be switched off should a hosepipe ban be imposed by the local water authority .
4 How long should a patient use a pump ?
5 His condition creates a crisis of conscience amongst medical staff — should a patient with a terminal condition really be allowed to take up already over-subscribed resources ?
6 Should a buyer cancel , he is automatically entitled to claim back advance payments and the seller is not allowed to levy a cancellation fee .
7 This has now become a listed building and should a buyer be found for the surplus Ministry of Defence land , a pre-requisite would be the dismantling of the hangar and its re-erection on RAF Museum land .
8 So , when buying an alternative energy generator what should a buyer look for ?
9 Should a question be included about the number of children in the unemployed person 's family ?
10 Why should a customer buy any one particular company s insurance product as opposed to a similar product from another insurance company ?
11 Why should a society dedicated to an economy of profit-making competitive enterprise , to the efforts of the isolated individual , to equality of rights and opportunities and freedom , rest on an institution which so totally denied all of these ?
12 Smacking — a mother 's dilemma : How should a child be punished ?
13 Should a child die before attaining an absolutely vested interest , his interest passes on to those next entitled , that is to say , other children , a parent , brothers and sisters of the whole blood , a surviving spouse , or remoter relatives if there is no surviving spouse .
14 To prevent this from running down on-to the rest of the body and the swaddling clothes , it was immediately covered by a narrow linen band known as the ‘ chrysom ’ ; and it was the custom , should a child die before it was one month old , that this chrysom was used as the head-covering to the funerary swaddling .
15 It is easy enough to accept that a child 's first word should label its mother , until we start to think about it : why should a child connect sounds with objects at all ?
16 But why , they asked of each other , should a child like that be under the care of the rag woman ?
17 ‘ For instance , should a child who has run away from home ring and ask that their parents be contacted , then the counsellors will do that and tell the mum and dad concerned where the child is , ’ she says .
18 For instance , should a farmer require some fencing , he knew that Mr. Green would be on the edge of the pavement at the right hand corner of The Market House — a position that Green 's had occupied over generations .
19 What should a coach do if he encounters a boy who bowls with an action reminiscent of Mike Procter ?
20 Should a court be prevented from hearing and acting on evidence that , despite the lapse of a few hours , a defendant 's temperament was such that it is fair to say that he or she was provoked to lose self-control , and that it was not calculated revenge ?
21 How , then , should a court confronted with the issue go about classifying a function as public or not ?
22 A fine comedy resulted , as the high culture of pre-war Vienna was reduced to eight discs , one book ( Goethe 's poems ) , one luxury ( a bath-tub ) , and responses to such questions as ‘ What should a person going into an art gallery for the first time look for ? ’
23 The question is when should a person be under a duty to compensate others for harm to their interests .
24 How else should a person look , while , in the course of a single ceremony , he kisses everything goodbye — just blows it all away in a prodigal storm of confetti and rice ?
25 Why should a bloke on the wireless write about ghosts ?
26 you ruin your chances so about three times a week the comes in to arrange my poll tax and all this and they get going you know well why should a bloke that having a big house and he only pays the same rate as them so I said , well it 's like this as far I 'm concerned I said you know no bloke works perhaps twice as many hours as you do he chooses
27 In other words , if there is to be a contribution from taxes to balance the operating account , then it should be explicit and calculation of it should also be explicit as should a contribution from Housing to the General Fund .
28 The time-honoured foam filter is a good beginner 's choice , and an excellent back-up to other systems , especially as it can be matured ( build-up a working population of bacteria ) in the tank at the same time as other systems — then moved into action at the required time should a back-up or quarantine tank become necessary .
29 There was an echo , and no man ever saw a ghost with a shadow , so why should a ghost 's voice have an echo ?
30 Should a metal bar be heated ten times , a hundred times , or how many times before we can conclude that it always expands when heated ?
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