Example sentences of "a [noun] should be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It will be handsome when uniforme , ’ said Palladio about his houses , ‘ because a building should be like an entier and perfect body where each member agrees with the other. , |
| 2 | He believed that ‘ a club should be like a big family , with all members of it sticking and pulling together under one head ’ . |
| 3 | We can not say what the scope of such a review should be in respect of the machinery 's wider preoccupations , but we think that it should look at two aspects in particular . |
| 4 | A telephone should be on a half-moon table in the hall . |
| 5 | ‘ Now this is what a pub should be like , ’ he said to them with a grin . |
| 6 | ‘ They had been discussing the idea that a pet should be for life not just for Christmas and decided to take the idea a step further , ’ she said . |
| 7 | " I know I have n't always been what a husband should be to you — but that does n't mean I do n't appreciate and admire your beauty . " |
| 8 | When a man wished to know what a king should be like , his clerical advisers would give him an expurgated account of the careers of King David , King Solomon and King Hezekiah ; if a man aspired to be emperor , he might hear a little about Constantine and Theodosius and other imperial figures of the distant past ; but he would hear above all about Charlemagne . |
| 9 | JOHN Major 's income tax cut which Labour described as a bribe should be in the people 's pockets in mid-May , but he should be able to provide an even greater post-election thank you for the majority of voters in the form of a stabilised housing market . |
| 10 | ‘ I know , ’ said David cheerfully teasing her , ‘ you think a church should be like an English Gothic cathedral or a little whitewashed village church with moth-eaten Peninsular War banners fluttering from dry-rotted lances . ’ |
| 11 | No one writing a report should be without a Roget 's Thesaurus . |
| 12 | Visually a pool should be in the lowest part of the landscape , whether that landscape be of magnificent proportions or the back garden of a suburban semi-detached house . |
| 13 | It was not essentially a narrative : the battles , the poems about incidents in the struggles between Zuwaya of Ajkharra and Berbers of Awjla , or Tibbu of Kufra and Rabiana , served to show how Zuwaya acted in the past , and how a tribe should be in order to survive without government and authority . |
| 14 | Thus we can always tell what colour a face should be by looking at its centre , regardless of how mixed up the cube is . |
| 15 | This suggests that to the criteria for trust wording a further one should be added : that the words be not only ‘ mediate ’ ( in the sense that they do not attribute property directly to the beneficiary ) but that they should also unequivocally attest the testator 's intention that a trustee should be under a legal obligation to a beneficiary . |