Example sentences of "should [vb infin] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When your Uncle Jim died , ’ Louise continued , ‘ and I decided to retire up here , it seemed the most natural thing in the world that cousins should want to be close in their widowhood . |
| 2 | Your notes , however , should strive to be concise and need to be stripped of unnecessary words . |
| 3 | So , when I found I wanted to write a book that would reflect a little on whether we should strive to be perfect or settle for the second-best but practical , I realised I would have to have a murder that was in some way imperfect . |
| 4 | Another criticism he makes is that it has an uneasy relationship with such values as justice which some people should consider to be important in human life . |
| 5 | The Staff Guide offers advice on this matter and recommends to staff when a module should need to be double marked . |
| 6 | But the right balance is not something which partners should expect to be able to settle at the outset in such a way as will necessarily be appropriate throughout the life of the firm . |
| 7 | In the meantime , we should expect to be surprised very often . |
| 8 | We should like to be constructive and we shall consider with our allies how best we can respond . |
| 9 | I should like to be sure that the child Barbara is carrying is my grandchild , not your bastard . ’ |
| 10 | The question we should like to be able to answer is , therefore , what suddenly created such a new , unheard of , situation in the religious life of antiquity . |
| 11 | Laocoon suffers ; but he suffers like Sophocles ' Philoctetes ; his misery pierces us to the soul ; but we should like to be able to bear anguish in the manner of this great man . |
| 12 | There is a meeting of the Parish Council on 16th July and I should like to be able to bring your reply to that meeting . |
| 13 | That aside , we should try to be happy with the body we have . |
| 14 | We should try to be happy in everything we do . |
| 15 | The West German Chancellor also fell into line with his French allies by agreeing that the Community should try to be ready to implement the economic union when the single market came fully into operation on January 1 , 1993 . |
| 16 | I have decided that I should try to be objective instead , and reflect for a moment . |
| 17 | Aunt M. nags and nags , and Uncle John said outright that he did n't see why they should have to be responsible for me , when Mother was only half-sister to Aunt Millicent . |
| 18 | For we should have to be able to redescribe both the actions we currently regard as rational , and those we think of as requiring a reactive response , so as to overcome the contrast between them . |
| 19 | Committees should cease to be executive or administrative bodies and should concentrate on policy determination . |
| 20 | On the whole , however , I believe that , though school assembly should cease to be compulsory as an act of worship ( largely because it has long ceased to be that anyway ) , there should be a place in the timetable for the compulsory teaching of Christianity , as long as Church and State are linked . |
| 21 | These bacteria are , of course , just the kind of parasites that , I argued , should cease to be parasitic and become mutualistic , precisely because they are transmitted in the eggs of the host , together with the host 's ‘ own ’ genes . |
| 22 | Rather than duplicate the work carried out in the creation of these parsers , the use of existing parsers should prove to be beneficial . |
| 23 | And the final reflection which suggests itself is that if this pattern of behaviour should prove to be normal , it should be assumed — at least until the contrary is demonstrated — that it is beneficial and has been evolved by trial and error as a preservative device or mechanism . |
| 24 | Returning now to our basic theory , we see that the extension of Freud 's monotraumatic theory of human social evolution to a polytraumatic one allows us to discern in human cultural evolution a pattern which , if it should prove to be real , may perhaps represent for the human sciences something like the revolution introduced into the physical sciences by Copernicus , Kepler and Galileo . |
| 25 | ‘ You must give me your solemn assurance on three counts : that you will not seek to discover the identity of my client , that you will not ask for any further assistance if the venture should prove to be unsuccessful and finally that you will not discuss this matter with any other person ; this stipulation to include even members of your own family and your circle of personal friends and acquaintances . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But Jamie or Gary should prove to be suitable donors . |
| 27 | She had suggested that one of them should pretend to be ill , shout for help and then , when one of their captors responded , the others should attack him . |
| 28 | There is every reason why it should continue to be pleasurable and satisfying for both husband and wife for the rest of their married life . |
| 29 | Psychiatrists should continue to be involved in the assessment and management of these patients alongside other professionals . |
| 30 | Of course the reverse may also be possible , that hostility and resentment build up , but this is all the more reason that a social worker should continue to be available for old people in residential care and the families . |