Example sentences of "that it should [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The factory , faced by demands from minority groups that it should not discharge its waste into the local river , will be unmoved by such considerations if its productivity and its economic survival depend upon keeping costs down . |
| 2 | Consequently , one lesson to criminal law from legal theory is that it should not aim at a comprehensiveness inconsistent with its subject-matter . |
| 3 | I am rather keen , and I 'm sure you are rather keen , that it should not end in a shabby way . ’ |
| 4 | The fact that the defendant was intoxicated , and his awareness was impaired for this reason will not avail , since the Act expressly provides that it should not do so . |
| 5 | It was crucial to the consistency of the work that it should not conclude : the narrator simply states that ‘ there has been no decision except that I 'm moving on ’ ( Wurlitzer 1969 : 161 ) . |
| 6 | Dr Sagdeev is concerned that it should not exceed 50% , ‘ otherwise institutes will lose their stability and become preoccupied with ad hoc projects . ’ |
| 7 | An interesting feature of the general theory of relativity is that it should not matter whether time is running backward or forward : it is time-symmetric . |
| 8 | As Bertrand Russell points out , it was James Mill , active Radical as he was , who in 1831 wrote of Hodgskin 's followers : ‘ Their notions of property look ugly : … they seem to think that it should not exist , and that the existence of it is an evil to them . |
| 9 | Coun Caroline Seymour told the full council that it should not offer any preferred route to the public inquiry due in May . |
| 10 | The Practical Curriculum , for example , a useful , practical discussion document for schools from the Schools Council , had to be held up so that it should not upstage an HMI view of the curriculum . |
| 11 | A similar procedure is adopted for the second objective , imposing the constraint that it should not drop below whichever is the smaller of its optimal value and its goal . |
| 12 | Maxton led the opposition to this view , claiming not that the Party should disaffiliate immediately , but that it should not hesitate to do so if its freedom to advocate the Socialism in Our Time policy were limited . |
| 13 | The IMF 's attempts to help Russia , says Mr Sachs , have been ‘ a disappointing performance of a task that it should not have been given . ’ |
| 14 | But , reflecting the Bundesbank 's concern that it should not have to endanger its own money-supply targets by supporting every sick currency , they say there should be no rigid rules on who has to intervene when . |
| 15 | If the Chairman disagrees with the Council and says that it should not have refused your request , then the Council must let your child have a place in the school your asked for . |
| 16 | All quoted the MoT regulations introduced on 1 January yet the crack in the test windscreen was less than ten millimetres long , so that it should not have failed the test . |
| 17 | Erm whether And the District Council as you say clearly clearly considered it appropriate that it should not expand any further at that time . |
| 18 | If a project is a genuine community-based initiative creating jobs and providing a service for the community , and if its management and accounts are in order , it is utterly unacceptable that it should not receive funding on the basis of its alleged political associations . |
| 19 | I determined that it should not happen again and it seemed impossible that it should for this time I should carry with me the foundation of happiness which I had found behind the wire . |
| 20 | My right hon. Friend will agree that those questions must be answered and that we have to get to the very heart of the scandal to ensure that it should not happen again , not only in Leicestershire but elsewhere , and those responsible for the cover-up are made to realise what they have done and the subsequent effect it has had on numerous children . |
| 21 | The International Water Tribunal ( IWT ) has told the Canadian province of Quebec that it should not proceed with its controversial James Bay hydroelectric project [ see ED no. 47 ] until a full environmental impact assessment has been carried out . |
| 22 | Kant then goes on to describe how Leibniz ( 1646–1716 ) , the great polymath , carried out field observations of caterpillars and similar creatures , being careful afterwards to return them to a suitable leaf out of harm 's way , ‘ so that it should not come to harm through any act of his . |
| 23 | This case also concerned a joint and several promissory note , to which the defendant pleaded that the co-debtor had been released by deed on making a composition with the creditors , but the deed contained a proviso that it should not operate to prejudice the rights of others . |
| 24 | The court accepted that it should not substitute its judgment for that of the agency . |
| 25 | However , a resolution which had been attached to the bill stipulated that it should not enter into effect until the beginning of 1993 because of the financial problems involved in implementing it . |
| 26 | On passing a sentence of imprisonment of two years or less the Act empowered a court to suspend the sentence by ordering that it should not take effect unless during a specified period the offender committed another offence punishable by imprisonment . |
| 27 | Alex Tate , 34-year-old ship 's cook , was told by Judge Alan Simpson that the assault merited a short prison sentence but that it should not interfere with his work . |
| 28 | It is a matter of principle for the Hong Kong government that it should not seek to restrict the numbers leaving , whether directly or by influencing resettlement countries . |
| 29 | It is a fundamental feature of Rawls ' conception of the fairness of the original position that it should not permit the choice of principles of justice to depend on a particular conception of the good over which the parties may differ . |
| 30 | ( The precise scope of executive privilege was unclear : the only Supreme Court ruling on the doctrine — the 1974 decision against Nixon — found it to have a basis in the Constitution but adjudicated that it should not provide an impediment to criminal prosecution . ) |