Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] they should be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to no-one 's advantage that they should be homogenised . |
| 2 | Earlier in his essay on the rule of law Oakeshott had suggested that to deliberate the jus of lex is ‘ to invoke a particular kind of moral consideration : … the negative and limited consideration that the prescriptions of law should not conflict with a prevailing educated moral sensibility capable of distinguishing between the conditions of ‘ virtue ’ , the conditions of moral association ( ’ good conduct ’ ) , and those which are of such a kind that they should be imposed by law ( ’ justice ’ ) ' . |
| 3 | Both need our help , but the help that they should be given is by their own Government , by the full implementation of resolutions 706 and 712 . |
| 4 | We recognise why that is , and it is a perfectly reasonable requirement that they should be given that free school meal , but it is producing a rather sudden burden for education authorities which they are finding difficult to accommodate at present . |
| 5 | Erm , on the basis that they should be put back into the position that they would have been had there been no breach . |
| 6 | The dead are impersonal , and so perhaps it is of no especial moment that they should be disturbed — or so I might once have argued on Victor 's behalf . |
| 7 | Bangor City have tabled a request to the annual meeting that they should be allowed to host all their league fixtures at Farrar Road under the lights in midweek . |
| 8 | Notably absent from the CBI 's understanding of the problems of inner cities was any notion that they should be met by national economic policy . |
| 9 | Bacon and Bungay were so exhausted that they set their servant , Miles , to watch it whilst they were asleep , under the instruction that they should be woken if the head started speaking . |
| 10 | The papers we have in our Archive are essentially the contents of Christabel 's desk when she died — she expressed a wish that they should be sent to one of her nieces , May Bailey , ‘ in the hope that she may come to care about poetry ’ . ’ |
| 11 | There was ‘ no real validity ’ in the argument that they should be paid the same as fire-fighters and the police . |
| 12 | Beneath the oral history lies a sad text of spies , betrayers , official reprisal and oppression , and heartrending devotion : ‘ Old Mrs Macdonald , after her guest had left the house , took the sheets in which he had lain , folded them carefully , and charged her daughter that they should be kept unwashed , and that , when she died , her body should be wrapped in them as a winding sheet . |
| 13 | The manufacturers sold chemicals to the second defendants with a warning that they should be tested before use . |
| 14 | Hartlepool Council officials are to be given one last chance to persuade the government that they should be given a slice of its City Challenge cash . |
| 15 | People are excluded from seeing death by the fact that death has become more like an illness that must receive medical attention , rather than the last event in a person 's life that they should be left in peace to deal with in whichever way they choose . |
| 16 | Conversely , many headquarters staff saw those in the field as too narrowly concerned with the running of their own prison establishments , and resistant to any suggestion that they should be called to account for the extent to which they implemented nationally agreed policies . |
| 17 | ‘ Any criticism against the centres by this independent body surely confirms the view that they should be covered by statutory regulations , ’ said Hodgkin . |
| 18 | British politicians have persistently rejected the view that they should be regarded as delegates , arguing instead that their duty is to make judgements for themselves in terms of their understanding of their constituents ' best interests , while recognizing that they may , of course , be rejected at the next election if they become seriously out of touch with the people they represent . |
| 19 | Few Europeans would have contested the view that they should be organized politically in sovereign states . |