Example sentences of "should [adv] be [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responsibility lies with the SROs , but it could be argued that they have insufficient resources to carry out this role , and should merely be ombudsmen ( although there is also some doubt as to their ability to act in this limited capacity given their degree of underfunding ) . |
| 2 | Applicants should normally be graduates with relevant experience in voluntary or paid work . |
| 3 | Perhaps we should just be friends ? ’ |
| 4 | If I never did anything but sit in this room and powder my face and tell you what a clever fool you are , i should still be heavens high above the millions of common women who do their domestic duty , and sacrifice themselves , and run Trade departments and all the rest of the vulgarities . |
| 5 | Trade unionists and educationalists should also be members . |
| 6 | There should also be rules to meet the needs of other service providers . |
| 7 | There should also be incentives for closer working between primary and secondary services . |
| 8 | He believed that the greatest scientists should also be poets , for both recognized affinity , analogy and beauty ; and although to his biographer his mind seemed essentially Platonic , his greatest heroes were Aristotle , Linnaeus , Robert Brown and Goethe . |
| 9 | They should also be jobs that young people might have experienced difficulty in gaining access to , without Compact . |
| 10 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 11 | ‘ Be always ready , according to your power to relieve the poor and help the distressed … ’ is a quote from The Rules for the Conduct of Life , a copy of which is given to all new Freemen — or perhaps it should now be Freepersons . |
| 12 | Managers should never be administrators Over the last few decades the distinction between leaders , managers and administrators has become increasingly blurred , to the detriment of profit and people alike . |
| 13 | The campaign groups should ideally be voices calling from the wilderness on behalf of the wilderness . |
| 14 | New activities to be promoted should therefore be ones requiring relatively small amounts of investment capital . |