Example sentences of "should be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This in itself presents a powerful argument against change , for it is clearly desirable that national and EC policies should be broadly similar if only because it is less confusing to the business community . |
| 2 | The answer is that it does , and that the justifications for doing so have been set out above — not so much because rape is a serious offence , but rather because ascertainment of the facts is so easy that there should be little substantive unfairness to defendants . |
| 3 | Even if such a sweeping conclusion is not warranted , retributivists should be strongly critical of many aspects of our penal system , not least the lack of consistency in sentencing practices ( see Chapter 4 ) which means that offenders are to a great extent not dealt with in proportion to their just deserts . |
| 4 | It was decided early that the organization should be strongly business-led with unified functional departments in support . |
| 5 | For the strictly limited purpose of deciding whether Ward J. 's decision should be affirmed or reversed , it suffices to say that an appellate court should always be slow to reject a trial judge 's findings of fact , he having had the advantage of seeing and hearing the witnesses , and that it should be even slower to do so if any findings which it would be minded to substitute would lead to the same result . |
| 6 | This puts the chances of survival at about 33 to 1 , and some authorities think this should be even higher — as much as 50 to 1 . |
| 7 | But , overall , our crime rate could and should be even lower . |
| 8 | And even though Northern Ireland has one of the lowest crime rates in Europe for theft and burglary , it could and SHOULD be even lower . |
| 9 | If this is so , then southern , one-party States with large black populations should be even lower welfare spenders than others where the electoral need to spend is weak , although statistically it is hard to separate out this effect because all of the extremely safe Democratic States are relatively poor , have large black populations and are in the South ( Johnston , 1983b ) . |
| 10 | Pakistan should be even better as a five-day team than they proved they could be over 50 overs . |
| 11 | It 's nice just to see it once , that er really that nine should be written smaller and then that two should be even smaller still , and that three should almost be unreadable because those things are smaller and smaller are n't they , as you go along there , these are getting tinier and tinier . |
| 12 | Now that you are well into your second week , progress should be even faster . |
| 13 | Some locals think the police should be even tougher in future . |
| 14 | Last year 's best pitching staff in the American League should be even stronger following the close-season signing of Jack Morris , Most Valuable Player in Minnesota 's seven-game 1991 World Series success against Atlanta . |
| 15 | All sockets , conduits and cables should be well clear of gas lines and points , and for safety no electrical socket should be reachable from a sink or washbasin with taps , to avoid wet hands touching plugs or switches . |
| 16 | It is important that whenever a rabbit is shot at it should be well clear of the hole . |
| 17 | ‘ Cold-blooded words do n't necessarily betoken a callous nature , as you should be well aware by this stage in your training . |
| 18 | " As for the evidence that cholera is spread in drinking water , there is , as Dr Dunstaple should be well aware , a considerable amount of evidence to support this view . |
| 19 | You should be well aware that evolution can only be viewed with hindsight , and whether our species ' rapacious predatory record will prove successful in the long term can only be speculation . |
| 20 | The private rented sector as you should be well aware , is in fact declining quite rapidly in this country and no measure that the government has so far taken has managed to rev reverse that trend . |
| 21 | In doing so the ‘ enlightenment ’ that can be gained from research in helping us develop good child care policy and practice should be just that which should inform good policy and practice for child abuse . |
| 22 | Authority is a secondary issue and flows from accountability in the sense that there should be just that amount of authority needed to discharge the accountability . |
| 23 | Social housing should be just that . |
| 24 | Well if we specified our model correctly , right , then these residuals should be just one noise , they should just be , appear with random fluctuations with mean zero . |
| 25 | Yes , this one here , it should be one overall , it should be just one overall picture of the item like the land , and this shows the different proportions of land in the north and south . |
| 26 | ‘ Here you are , this should be just right for you , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Should be just right then should n't it . |
| 28 | For equilibrium , we require that the aggregate demand for the economy 's goods and services should be just equal to the total value of goods and services produced . |
| 29 | If it is somewhat bizarre that after all the arguing , all the effort , the video souvenir of the event should be enormously disappointing to the band , it 's not more ironic that the fact that after the show the support act stole all the headlines — for all the wrong reasons . |
| 30 | This should be slightly bigger than the piece to be worked . |