Example sentences of "should [adv] be [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Work habitually done on an ad valorem basis may be quite uneconomical and should perhaps be time charged .
2 Proposals to rehabilitate existing broadleaved woods ( which are a source of livestock shelter ) on farms should only be grant aided if the scheme aims to ‘ retain the essential broadleaved character of the woodland with appropriate native tree species ’ .
3 Me feeling is that there should only be team promotions and that the money should be split .
4 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 ) .
5 Applicants should normally be graduates with relevant experience in voluntary or paid work .
6 To ensure an adequate flow of water , feed pipes should generally be 22mm .
7 There should generally be convergence between exchange and physical prices as the contract moves towards expiry .
8 Perhaps we should just be friends ? ’
9 There should just be room for your finger , and your toes should not feel cramped .
10 The unlucky 4–0 defeat at home to Alborne showed great promise for the future and if it had not been a mathematical impossibility since the beginning of October , I would have said that playing like that we should still be promotion contenders .
11 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 .
12 They should still be disk .
13 These matters of a more technical constitutional nature are perhaps not immediately obvious to the man in the street , nor even to politicians ; yet it is incredible that there should still be people advocating federalism for the EC given the abysmal record of other multinational federations .
14 Even if you are in a rush there should still be time for a glass of skimmed milk and a piece of fruit or fruit juice .
15 The keynote should always be flexibility and adaptability .
16 If the underside of the roof slope is insulated , there must be a gap of 50mm between it and the insulation , and there should also be ventilation openings at the ridge equivalent to a continuous strip 5mm wide running the full length of the ridge .
17 Trade unionists and educationalists should also be members .
18 There should also be rules to meet the needs of other service providers .
19 There should also be incentives for closer working between primary and secondary services .
20 At the Feb. 27 Országgyüles session , one representative called for seats in parliament for minorities , and another proposed that there should also be church representation .
21 There should also be legislation which will protect older people against bad practice and abuse in both private and public residential care and nursing homes and in hospitals .
22 The plant should also be self draining .
23 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 .
24 They should also be jobs that young people might have experienced difficulty in gaining access to , without Compact .
25 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 .
26 ‘ 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 .
27 It should really be occasion for surprise that the terraces are as well preserved as they are , not that they are dissected .
28 This tale is set in Antwerp , and the major difference between it and the Miller 's Tale is that the woman concerned is not a wife but a prostitute , who lives in Coperstraten ( apparently Merchant Street , although it has been suggested it should really be Coeperstraten , Cow Gate Street ) .
29 All the rule books seem to say you must wear some sort of jacket — the BSJA naturally stipulate the colours — and in some classes it should even be tweed .
30 Fighting for justice should indeed be part of the Great Battle — God forbid that our fight has no social and political cutting edge — but it must never become a secular substitute for it .
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