Example sentences of "as [pron] should be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But I do n't think everyone is as aware as they should be of the after-effects .
2 We ask them to be multi- skilled , we ask them to use new technology , we ask them to be obsessed as they should be with quality add customer service .
3 Ministers stopped the force contributing to this article , which suggests they are not as confident as they should be about its achievements .
4 That was great and started a whole year of being in America for me , which was seeing David as a major star and also for myself , experiencing life as it should be as a major star , with your cars and people looking after you and the record company being polite to you rather than treating you like shit and not working .
5 When he introduced his national health service , a wonderful scheme , everything was free , it was paid of the taxes you know , as it should be as Beveridge envisaged you see ?
6 As it should be on a ‘ 59-style Strat it 's a proper thick ‘ slab ’ board , not the curved veneer type , and it 's got reasonably authentic-looking plastic clay-type markers .
7 It is a matter of total indifference to me , as it should be to the hon. Member for Swansea , East ( Mr. Anderson ) .
8 After this digression , it is now time to examine the way in which the curriculum , divided as it should be between the practical and the theoretical , is to be reflected in the school examination system .
9 This is as it should be under the constitution of the United Kingdom .
10 Now , on the corner of Monteoliveto , and only a short walk from other similar churches , he felt once again that little nag of doubt : maybe all this was not as it should be after all .
11 Dana Gillespie : ‘ DeFries always thought that in order for us to absorb musical culture as it should be from America , we should actually go and live in America , and it took quite a few months for it all to be organized .
12 Back in 1973 the Turin vice squad had a tip-off that all was not as it should be in one of the city 's massage parlours which offered a variety of therapeutic services , among them ‘ Overall body massage with opportunities for meditation ’ .
13 ‘ I agree therefore with all your Lordships that the practice of exacting an undertaking in damages from the Crown as a condition of the grant of an interlocutory injunction in this type of law enforcement action ought not to be applied as a matter of course , as it should be in actions between subject and subject , in relator actions , and in actions by the Crown to enforce or to protect its proprietary or contractual rights .
14 The story count is high — page three of the winning issue positively buzzed with 11 stories , and eight were crammed on to the back , which is as it should be in a conglomerate all about communication .
15 We disagree among ourselves about much , and that is as it should be in an open society .
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