Example sentences of "should [vb infin] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm maintain , to maintain contact is not as good as what it should 've been but that was fair enough . |
| 2 | Whereas the least you should expect is that any type of funding should be tailor-made for you . |
| 3 | What we should remember is that , using a white 1967 Gibson SG Custom ( converted to suit his left-handed playing ) Ollie actually invented the hammered-on , four finger runs we all take for granted today . |
| 4 | One key fact they should remember is that outside the United States , by far the largest amount of their prize money comes from events organised and funded by national associations which , in turn , are part of the ITF . |
| 5 | The other thing you should remember is that there are all sorts of confidences that you can apply to these sort of things . |
| 6 | What the public should remember is that the murderers the rapists have n't gone away … they 're in Bullingdon prison now and pretty soon they may be housed in Oxford prison |
| 7 | But one thing you should understand is that you 're in way over your head . |
| 8 | What you should recognize is that it is a warning sign that you have been doing too much , and that you need to get away from the patient , at least for short periods in the day , if not for some days or weeks . |
| 9 | Despite Leicester 's pressure the Tranmere goalkeeper was not as active as he should have been although his defence must take some credit for that . |
| 10 | There has been some confusion — I do not know why there should have been because it was made clear last night by the Secretary of State for Wales — about the position of students . |
| 11 | Robert knew that his stepdaughter would have a little inheritance , not as much as it should have been because that stubborn old woman had dipped into her capital to buy worthless stock , but it would be a nice little nest-egg all the same . |
| 12 | It it should have been because I put in . |
| 13 | The Guardian 's own Milestones Award for long-term creative commitment to the music went to the veteran George Russell , whose greeting from the crowd was as affectionate as it should have been and a services-to-jazz prize sponsored jointly by Wire and Carlsberg/Elephant lager went to John Surman , one of the most gifted members of that talented and ill-rewarded generation of musicians that came between Stan Tracey 's and the new young heroes . |
| 14 | This probably accounted for the fact that she was not on duty at the theatre as much as she should have been and was very moody when she was there . |
| 15 | Had Waddell 's trial in Edinburgh not been the farce it was , had he been found guilty of the murder of Mrs Ross as he should have been and sentenced by Lord Robertson to life imprisonment , as he should have been , it would seem likely that Mrs Chipperfield would be alive today . |
| 16 | Then I noticed that Helen had n't much room by my side , so I stepped to the left to where the grating should have been and slid gracefully down into the cellar . |
| 17 | Yet the officially measured real consumption in the past two years has been stronger than it should have been if the official measurement of GDP were accurate . |
| 18 | Freeman ( 1984 ) has suggested that some of her research was not as thorough as it should have been if she was to make such claims , and even that her desire to reach the conclusions that she did made her see things as she wished to see them , rather than as they actually were ( see Shipman 1988 ) . |
| 19 | Yet there should have been if he had walked across that floor without his boots on . |
| 20 | ‘ But what should happen is that the workflow should be built into the software so that it automatically decides what needs to be done , by whom and when , then sends it to the relevant person , noting the deadline , and recording outstanding requests . ’ |
| 21 | erm I think really what erm what should happen is that erm you , with your manager , ought to look at the the erm to establish and agreed job description and in addition to the notes that are are are there erm I have some sample job descriptions from other parts of the Press which have been completed as a framework job and erm we can discuss that in any kind of detail you want . |
| 22 | One thing I should mention is that you 'd be advised to try and view these videos on a stereo VCR , as many of the recorded examples — panning , for example — are pretty meaningless otherwise . |
| 23 | OK , it sounds decidedly dumb , but one glaringly obvious thing you should check is whether your machine 's ‘ turbo ’ button has been pressed . |
| 24 | The most you should say is that on these facts there is evidence of negligence ( or unreasonableness ) , and that a finding to that effect would clearly be right ( or conversely ) . |
| 25 | Perhaps this is a question all potential Members should ask is whether their party intend to replace this farce with a more constructive alternative . |