Example sentences of "[noun pl] should not [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | This would be in tune with the general desire of the council officials that we as researchers should not set about asking direct questions about incomer and Shetlander relations . |
| 3 | But schools should not rely continually on replicas , and when they are used the fact that they are copies should be acknowledged . |
| 4 | But , more important , the participating schools should not take only the very clever . |
| 5 | Businessmen should not set up in a market where they will be powerless to enforce their credit terms . |
| 6 | Coaches and parents should not put too much pressure on youngsters at this age . ’ |
| 7 | They sensed the change in political mood and were anxious that the Conservatives should not get out of step with the public . |
| 8 | We do not say that workers who have clocked in 35 or 40 years should not retire early , but we are emphatic that their departure should create new promotional opportunities and , most importantly , should create job vacancies for young school leavers who will add a great energy and enthusiasm in the enterprise ’ . |
| 9 | Then , properly managed , perhaps using birth control instead of the crude culls practised by Zimbabwe and its friends , there is no reason why elephants should not go on producing ‘ found ’ ivory ( tusks picked up after natural mortality ) and tourist revenue for ever . |
| 10 | Of course , too much should not be attempted at any one time , and the ideas should not run ahead of our abilities to put them into effect . |
| 11 | As a general warning vendors should not place too much reliance on employment cases . |
| 12 | In other words , managers should not cling blindly to a plan when unfolding events indicate the desirability of actions which were not originally authorized . |
| 13 | the principle of span of control : managers should not control more than 5 or 6 subordinates if they have interlocking responsibilities . |
| 14 | But Gaullists and Thatcherites should not get too excited . |
| 15 | This morning leading figures from the Law Society of Scotland will congregate in Westminster to tell the Scottish Affairs select committee why the reforms should not go ahead . |
| 16 | The relevant questions should not concern how local ‘ culture ’ forms local politics , but how this ‘ culture ’ itself is formed , how it is sustained or transformed , and how it affects local political activity in conjunction with a host of other structures and practices , some of which may be locally based and some of which may not . |
| 17 | Brussels , in its infinite wisdom , has decided ( for the moment at least ) that the standard for fittings should not include either dimensions or strength ; and the supreme importance of the god of uniformity should not be left in operation to cover these aspects . |
| 18 | ‘ They believe girls should not speak up and that they should let their parents control their lives . |
| 19 | ‘ The Department of Education and Science themselves said the teachers should not get more than five per cent that is what teachers have got in recent years . |
| 20 | The Americans should not intervene militarily to help the Kurds . |
| 21 | It is highly desirable for economic and functional reasons that rainwater discharges should not enter either cess pools or septic tanks , but should run into streams , ditches , collecting tanks or soakaways . |
| 22 | It is equally important that disciplinary proceedings should not become unduly protracted . |
| 23 | Next month , Guy Duke reports from Pakistan 's North-west Frontier : ‘ Tourists should not come here alone ! ’ screamed the guide book . ’ |
| 24 | It is inevitable that we think of children at Christmas but , as Father John McCullagh writes so movingly on this page , our thoughts should not stop there . |
| 25 | Yet Ministers only received £5000 and Permanent Secretaries in the civil service £3500 , and the Treasury were naturally concerned that public sector industries should not get too far out of line . |
| 26 | Mark Saunders admits that car receivers should not rely exclusively on reception of the CT ( clock ) and date information but use the RDS to set and correct the displayed time . |
| 27 | While most , for example narcissi and scillas , should be planted as soon as they are bought , tulips should not go in to the garden until November . |
| 28 | Filing cabinets should not take up too much floor space and be sited so that it is easy to open drawers and get at records . |