Example sentences of "they should not be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Danzig Poles were not keen for the city to come under Polish rule , they were nevertheless determined that they should not be penalised for being Polish , and in their own way they were proud of their identity — even if it did not quite amount to ‘ nationality ’ in a conventional sense . |
| 2 | They should not be taking decisions about how money should be spent . |
| 3 | Although this chapter and the next are about sex differences in the use of language , they should not be treated as an exhaustive catalogue of research findings on that subject . |
| 4 | But what is more important than anything else is that they should not be treated as packages and removed from one place to another and back again because the grown-ups are involved in a dispute and have overlooked that children have rights , and that children 's rights are to remain somewhere until after calm and sensible consideration and a decision by a court that the particular place in which they are living is changed by the decision of the court to them living somewhere else . |
| 5 | Expert private customers can elect that they should not be treated as private customers ; if they do , they are non-private customers . |
| 6 | They should not be given legal binding force . |
| 7 | Of course , the children should enjoy themselves , but they should not be given rich food . |
| 8 | An inspection of the table reveals overlaps between the three trends , and clearly they should not be seen as mutually exclusive . |
| 9 | County freeholders , often indiscriminately styled ‘ barons ’ , as indeed some of them were , whose estates had been erected into free baronies by a crown charter , were gentlemen landowners of the shire , the direct vassals of the crown , and most of them were fully conscious of holding a social position which demanded that they should not be seen to be in any man 's pocket . |
| 10 | As they stepped on to the landing he signalled her to go ahead while he hung back so they should not be seen arriving in the newsroom together . |
| 11 | One aim of it is to make opponents of abortion appear unpatriotic and out of tune with American values ; but the main message being conveyed implicitly here is that women are Americans too : they should not be deprived of the rights and liberties guaranteed to all American citizens by the US Constitution . |
| 12 | They er they they should not be received by me . |
| 13 | They should not be handled or taken away if found . ’ |
| 14 | The more fundamental point about exchange rates is that they should not be maintained at artificial levels as is certainly the case at present , when sterling has to be supported by 14 per cent interest rates . |
| 15 | But it can not be stressed too strongly that there are places of great strength and potential for growth : they should not be squashed , marginalised and ignored . |
| 16 | The Libyan quarrel was referred to Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria , a very well-educated man , who sided with those theologians who stressed the distinctness of Father and Son ; they should not be said to be of one being but to be as distinct as the husbandman and the vine . |
| 17 | Cuvier insisted that the four types were simply different and equally successful body plans — they should not be ranked with the vertebrates at the top , since this would smack too much of the old chain of being . |
| 18 | Above all , they should not be imposed and regulated by a central power . |
| 19 | A.3.1 The Vendor can only warrant facts as at exchange : they should not be repeated at Completion . |
| 20 | So long as I hold the office of Home Secretary , I shall give no countenance to the view that they should not be prevented from being such a danger . ’ |
| 21 | The Federation established industrial co-operatives with the intent that they should not be absorbed into or controlled by the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 22 | What is important is that they should not be trying to enter publishing on an uncommercial basis , especially when there are such clear and obvious shortcomings in their performance in almost all the areas that are quite clearly their responsibility , and on which the future of British tennis depends . |
| 23 | They also decided that two Albanians who had recently bought land in Zakuti should be boycotted , and that they should not be accepted as residents of the village ( Borba , 18 June 1986 ) . |
| 24 | They have come to the conclusion that , from the point of view of the welfare of the children , it is more important to the children that they should not be separated from each other than that either child should go to one of the grandmothers . |
| 25 | Birkbeck 's study of garbage pickers in Cali , Colombia , suggests that they should not be viewed as vagrants left behind by economic development but as workers who are part of the industrial system ( Birkbeck 1979 ) . |
| 26 | These funerary items were nearly always painted by heraldic amateurs — signwriters , coachbuilders and so on — so although they provide useful clues they should not be regarded as authoritative , but of course the fact that they are not can also form part of the story the local historian has to tell . |
| 27 | As for polyunsaturated fats , these are a preferable substitute in our diet , but even they should not be regarded as totally beneficial . |
| 28 | Cantors or animateurs could also have a place in those churches with a thriving musical tradition and they should not be regarded simply as emergency personnel . |
| 29 | They should not be regarded as simply a last resort , but involved in the consultation process surrounding possible action to prevent risk to employees . |
| 30 | My believe is what P P G is inviting local authorities to do is be cautious in proposing them , they should not be regarded as a first option , or an easy option , they should be cautious in proposing them . |