Example sentences of "[n mass] should not be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manu-facture of military weapons and civilian aircraft should not be allowed , restrictions on industrial production should be minimised . |
| 2 | Gradually the short hops became longer hops , and it was evident that there was no reason why this aircraft should not be taken into her natural environment . |
| 3 | Since a typical Enumeration District contains about 200 households , a 10% sample of a single ED is unreliable , and the 10% data should not be used for areas smaller than a few Enumeration Districts ( Cole 1993 ) . |
| 4 | It is important to emphasise that older people should not be regarded en masse as ill , frail or in terminal decline . |
| 5 | But whether people should not be called to account for continuing to hold such a picture today is another question . |
| 6 | None the less , civilized people should not be called upon to suffer such cheek from the younger generation , who had little spending power and did nothing to justify their existence . |
| 7 | It captures the idea that humanity should be respected for its own sake , so that people should not be treated in organizations solely as the means in an economizing process . |
| 8 | The central problem would seem to be market vagaries ; old people should not be denied the services which they need to survive in the community because there happens to be a shortage in a given locality , or because certain areas are not profitable , or because some old people are less congenial than others . |
| 9 | There is a policy supported view that mentally handicapped people should not be placed in institutions ; that community based alternatives should exist ; and that small living arrangements are preferable to large . |
| 10 | The Liberal Democrats are promising what they would do , but people should not be fooled into voting for them . |
| 11 | Seriously mentally disordered people should not be put in prison . |
| 12 | It also remains unclear to what extent disabled people working in the health and caring professions have a better understanding of illness and disability than their able-bodied colleagues , although it can be argued that this should not be a central Issue as disabled people should not be expected to perform better than other people in order to be acceptable . |
| 13 | This reflects the Conservative government 's concern that people should not be drawn into what is called the ‘ dependency culture ’ . |
| 14 | In the meantime , people should not be advise to seek guidance from the tabloid newspapers , which are more interested in a ‘ good story ’ than scientific accuracy . |
| 15 | ‘ It does not necessarily mean that people should not be told the truth in school about what happens in reality . ’ |
| 16 | Department of Health guidance is clear that people should not be discharged into private nursing homes when they have no wish to pay . ’ |
| 17 | people should not be compelled to pay for fuel in arrears — that is , they should be allowed prepayment meters if they want them ; and easy-payment schemes should be boosted . |
| 18 | But the paper added : ‘ It is also right that people should not be forced to work into old age in jobs that may , on the one hand , impose physical or mental demands which are beyond their capacity or , on the other , be boring and repetitive . ’ |
| 19 | POPE John Paul , on his first trip to the former Soviet Union , yesterday called for reconciliation in post-communist nations and said their people should not be divided into ‘ winners and losers ’ . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , if we adjust the above findings , they suggest that almost 40% of the public feel that mentally handicapped people should be segregated from the rest of society ; around the same proportion would dislike the idea of a mentally handicapped child being at the same school as their child and around 70% feel that mentally handicapped people should not be allowed to marry and have children . |
| 21 | From these beginnings developed the startling and revolutionary notion that in residential areas traffic and people should not be segregated but instead should be integrated . |
| 22 | Mr Jones has criticised Mr Mandelson for announcing his candidature in a newspaper article and said that the spirit of the party 's selection code , which says the media should not be used to promote a candidate , may have been broken . |
| 23 | Whatever the curriculum there is no reason in principle why some appropriate means should not be devised to assess the extent to which any pupil has achieved some desirable level of understanding , knowledge or competence as a consequence of following that curriculum . |
| 24 | There was covert opposition to these measures from the older departmental heads , who displayed considerable ingenuity in discovering reasons why staff should not be released . |
| 25 | Relocation allowances for existing staff should not be reviewed as bonuses but as compensatory payments which enable employees to make decisions about their futures within their companies without worrying about financial pressures . |