Example sentences of "[pron] should be only " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the hon. Member for Leicester , South ( Mr. Marshall ) would like to accompany me in the new year , I should be only too happy to take him on a tour and show him just how much is happening outside Belfast as well as in it . |
| 2 | ‘ You should be only too glad to be rid of him . ’ |
| 3 | Sir Archibald Sinclair , the Secretary of State for Air , thought there should be only one company , and Lord Beaverbrook stated that free enterprise should have the widest possible scope in the operation of the companies . |
| 4 | He told a news conference after the meeting : ‘ We must all agree that there should be only one nuclear state ’ in the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) , apparently referring to Russia , which holds about 17,000 nuclear warheads . |
| 5 | Then again , at the turn of this century , a geographer named Otto Krümmell decided that both Seven and Five were too many , and that there should be only the Three . |
| 6 | If the prime function of judicial review is seen as being to provide remedies against unlawful behaviour by government , then there should be only an absolutely minimal standing requirement such as ‘ taxpayer ’ or ‘ citizen ’ , or even no requirement at all ( ‘ any person ’ ) . |
| 7 | He also quoted Mallarmé " I think … that there should be only allusion … |
| 8 | Rather there should be only one set of notes for each subject regardless of source . |
| 9 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 10 | Over the weekend the Chief Whip , William Whitelaw , detected a strong feeling in the Parliamentary Party that there should be only two nominations , not more . |
| 11 | There should be only 20 such tournaments in a Ryder Cup year and they should be the biggest and best . ’ |
| 12 | There should be only one opportunity for discount ; otherwise the full purchase price should apply , he said . |
| 13 | So it looks as though hpGRF and hypothalamic GRF are the same thing in these species , and it should be only a matter of time before it is from the hypothalamus as well . |
| 14 | But she erm thinks that the way it should be only four days rather than three . |
| 15 | Perhaps communication should be at the broadest possible level if that is done well ; if not , it should be only at that level which can be done well . |
| 16 | There were a lot of very poor men also in a number of these trades who were not originally covered by the legislation , and that 's where the erm the developments have , have come from since then , the dynamic of the policy , because the argument over whether it should be only for women rebounded on them , and people said , ‘ No , it should n't ’ , so for a while the legislation was all scrapped and then they started again , and now the Americans have much more comprehensive laws than we do . |