Example sentences of "should [adv] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may not receive any extra money if you or your spouse already receive a state benefit , and your taxable earnings should not be more than £30 per week after the deduction of reasonable expenses . |
| 2 | To this end : In the Government 's view , the total increase [ in pay ] for any group compared with the previous year … should not be more than 5 per cent . |
| 3 | The four key criteria on economic convergence were ( i ) that inflation should be no more than 1.5 per cent above the average of the three best-performing member countries ; ( ii ) that the government deficit should not exceed 3 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) and the public debt should not exceed 60 per cent of GDP ; ( iii ) that the currency should have remained within the 2.25 per cent fluctuation margins in the European Monetary System for at least two years ; and ( iv ) that interest rates should not be more than 2 percentage points above the three best-performing states over the previous 12 months . |
| 4 | To avoid this , windows should not be more than 94 6-pixel characters from the edge of the applications window ( 104 6-pixel characters from the leftmost edge of the screen ) . |
| 5 | ( There was an Act of Parliament in the reign of George I , just when this house was being built , which decreed that their measurements should not be less than 13½in by 9½in by ½in ; , and these dimensions are still more or less adhered to today . ) |
| 6 | They should not be less than one metre deep and all peat , silt and made-up ground should be avoided . |
| 7 | One to house four ferrets should not be less than 3 feet ( 1 metre ) tall at the front and have a sloping roof . |
| 8 | This period of initial intervention should not be less than 3 weeks . |
| 9 | They should still be there if some animal has n't carried them off , ’ Travis answered , and went out of the door . |
| 10 | In mode 3 , however any delay to end users should always be less than one minute says IBM ; since both processors are already processing the same shared data . |
| 11 | She should n't be here because of Maria Luisa but she trusted Fernando enough not to be too unduly worried about it . |
| 12 | It should n't be there if you do n't need to use it . |
| 13 | the trombone and they think the trombone should n't be there and this man says , look , picks up the trombone and puts it outside the train . |
| 14 | This should n't be less than 225mm , but before deciding on a firm measurement , the same calculation should be applied to the vertical measurement , between the highest and lowest points . |
| 15 | Yeah he should n't be long before he 's home but |
| 16 | I 'll bring you a glass when we 've finished cooking — which should n't be long if Bailey has done as she was told . |
| 17 | The rug should then be carefully and systematically dried , making sure that there are no pockets of dampness in either the foundation or pile , by leaving it out in the sun and then methodically going over the entire area , both back and front , with a hand-held hair dryer . |
| 18 | You should never be more than two horse-lengths away from your man at any time . |
| 19 | There should never be more than two or three essential points , for you will never get enough time to make any more . |