Example sentences of "should be [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How cruelly ironic it was that the first man to capture her heart and awaken her senses , the man she had waited and longed for , should be metaphorically a ship passing in the night . |
| 2 | Life in the Third Millennium should be just a bundle of laughs . |
| 3 | It should be both a dialogue with experience and a dialogue with living religions so that one can interpret and reinforce the other " ( p. 43 ) . |
| 4 | The SWA therefore urges that the practice of index linking excise duty on spirits should be discontinued , and that there should be neither an increase in excise duties , nor revalorisation , until present differentials have been substantially eroded . |
| 5 | The rough guide is that there should be approximately a year 's progress-gap between each grade . |
| 6 | From this experiment , I would be inclined to belief that psychology should be predominantly an activity in which we use non-experimental methods for understanding people 's experiences in their own terms , taking into account the social context of those experiments , rather than an activity in which we transform common sense into scientific knowledge . |
| 7 | The modern novel should be largely a work of reference ’ ( 1939:25 , cit . |
| 8 | If the software documentation is readable and understandable , this should be largely a matter of following instructions . |
| 9 | The primate centre received requests for 300 macaques and 14 chimpanzees , many of which could not be supplied because of a policy that it should be primarily a supplier for TNO institutes . |
| 10 | ‘ We firmly and explicitly reject the idea that a Ph D student should be primarily a research assistant involved in an ongoing research project … the preparation of a Ph D thesis … provides a means of ensuring that research undertaken is preserved and can be made available to others . ’ |
| 11 | He says he thinks the theatre should be more a part of the community . |
| 12 | The cost of the implant should be only a fraction of the total cost of surgery and inpatient care — overall cost £3000-£5000 per joint replacement ( Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust costings , 1992 ) . |
| 13 | So it looks as though hpGRF and hypothalamic GRF are the same thing in these species , and it should be only a matter of time before it is from the hypothalamus as well . |
| 14 | Certainly , it may be an adaptation of a TV or press campaign , but it should be specifically a radio treatment . |
| 15 | Donegal have n't lost a game in 12 months , while Derry have only lost three times in 27 months , so it should be quite a struggle . |
| 16 | South Leinster are also strong , having seven internationals in their side , so it should be quite a contest at Lurgan . |
| 17 | It should be quite a challenge , although many of the roads are tarred . |
| 18 | For the quarter of a million people expected here over the weekend , it should be quite a show . |
| 19 | And er the subject matter of the , the lecture is ‘ Searching the heart of humanity , to find the common bond ’ , which is of course , it 's , it 's just like my film ‘ Eternity ’ , it 's a huge , you know , it creates a huge expectation , but I 'm not afraid to step in front of people now and , and er you know , present myself and say ‘ well let's ask the big question , let's , let's go for it , so er so it should be quite a lot of fun tomorrow . |
| 20 | The British parliament , by contrast , just reiterated the view that the Council should be merely a meeting place for discussion and ideas , while in Scandinavia the recommendations were not even debated . |