Example sentences of "[pers pn] should [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you should be given a chance to state your case |
| 2 | I think actually you should be allowed a house , You know for a . |
| 3 | They would not let her speak at table and made her wear a white canvas apron and a short gown ‘ so that she should be held a fool ’ ; but , said Margery with unholy self-satisfaction , ‘ she was held in more worship than they were , wherever they went ’ . |
| 4 | Reg Davis , Wimbledon 's commercial manager , added : ‘ If damage was caused , then it is only right that we should be sent a bill for the repairs . |
| 5 | Once a witness has been seen they should be sent a proof of their evidence for signature immediately . |
| 6 | It is right that they should be given a place of honour in the history of ancient art . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His agent , Giles Gordon of Sheil Land , had reacted to the sight of the manuscript with alarm , but was won around by reading it : ‘ He said that perhaps it should be cut a bit , but that we should aim to keep it to the same kind of scale . ’ |
| 9 | I think it should be done a lot younger as well . |
| 10 | If such a home places its residents under the care of a consultant psychiatrist , surely it should be called a hospital . |
| 11 | Yes , I think this is what 's tended to happen is people call the system , i.e. the central processing unit — which is really the microprocessor , the memory and the interface circuits — as a microprocessor , when really it should be called a microcomputer . |
| 12 | In 1790 , when the county of Cromarty was being contested , one of the freeholders serving in the army demanded , as the price of his support for the candidate favoured by Henry Dundas , that he should be given a company in a regiment stationed in Britain . |
| 13 | He may , however , begin to think that , being judged capable of running his own show , he should be given a department of his own . |