Example sentences of "should [not/n't] be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 All these arguments , from people involved in different ways in the study of language , have weight , and should not be ridiculed or dismissed out of hand , as has become rather fashionable in some language teaching circles .
2 Pages , venerably yellow , should not be cased in military morocco , but in sober brown russia …
3 Beyond the town , the old county boundary is crossed , Caithness being left for Sutherland , both of these ancient counties having now sadly lost their identities in the new-fangled administrative area known as the Highland Region — one hopes that Caithness will for ever remain Caithness and Sutherland Sutherland in the minds of Scotsmen : historical associations should not be trampled on by modern bureaucracy .
4 Ground impact marks , sometimes a considerable distance from the main wreckage , should not be trampled upon or run over by rescue vehicles .
5 Any commission paid to a foreign sub-agent should not be charged to the artist .
6 The additional attraction of moving to a central control , for some , is that it has often been argued , and increasingly so over the past 20 years , that debt charges do not measure ‘ cost of service ’ and should not be charged to detailed revenue accounts anyway .
7 This means that even if the applicant has standing , has made the application in good time , and can establish that the respondent has acted illegally , he or she may be denied relief if the court thinks , for some reason , that relief should not be granted .
8 Hambros Jersey contended that the jurisdiction conferred by this rule can only properly be exercised by analogy to R.S.C. , Ord. 11 , so that leave should not be granted unless the case falls within one of the paragraphs of Ord. 11 , r. 1(1) .
9 In an effort to tighten up the administration of poor relief the Local Government Board issued a circular in 1871 to the effect that outdoor relief should not be granted to the able-bodied widow with one child .
10 It is obvious that a patent should not be granted for anything which is not new , which is already in the public domain , otherwise the grant of the patent could make illegal an act which was previously legal .
11 Such a condition is particularly appropriate where the proposed development is undesirable on a long-term view , but there is no reason why a temporary permission should not be granted .
12 Two judges found the evidence of a contract too thin to grant an injunction on " balance of convenience " principles ; the third , Lord Justice Kerr , said that in principle an injunction should not be granted to stop a programme which depended on topicality and timing .
13 But there is no reason why both these and other sensory systems should not be employed .
14 There is , however , no statistical reason why these tests should not be employed on such data , although clearly the probability of any result being due to chance is more likely to be lower as sample size increases .
15 For example , s. 59 FSA 1986 permits the SIB , if it believes any individual is not a fit and proper person , to direct that he should not be employed in connection with investment business by any authorised or exempted person .
16 In 1894 Gertrude Tuckwell ( Secretary and later President of the Women 's Trade Union League ) advocated ‘ the gradual extension of labour protection to the point where mothers will be prohibited from working until their children have reached an age at which they can care for themselves ’ , and the Women 's Labour League agreed that mothers with children under five should not be employed .
17 It may be argued , however , that the lack of success experienced by the UK in the 1980s with its attempts to control the money supply growth rate was due to special factors and should not be employed against the search for ways of formulating an effective monetary policy at the national level .
18 Although I consider that at the relevant time Lautro 's Rules , and thus its procedure , were defective in the respects I have outlined , for the reasons I have given I conclude that Lautro were not required by law to afford to Winchester the opportunity to make representations as to why an intervention notice should not be served before deciding whether or not to serve such a notice .
19 The language of rights , legitimate expectations or privileges should not be elevated to any higher status .
20 Even though the offence is a relatively minor one , the words remain ‘ strong ’ ones , and the criminal sanction should not be invoked unless its use is really called for .
21 Lists of names of authors should not be differentiated according to gender , by using first names for female writers but only family names for male writers ( as in " Shakespeare , Milton , Jane Austen , Hardy " ) .
22 It recommends formula milk be heated in volumes of at least 4 oz and that 8 oz bottles should not be heated for more than 45 seconds .
23 But if we are to move towards the maximum recycling of plastics , and the maximum environmental benefit , then food packaging should not be ruled out .
24 Notwithstanding some products marketed as sanitisers can be effective disinfectants when used as such and the use of sanitisers in some circumstances should not be ruled out .
25 Earlier , the Federal Reserve said that higher short-term interest rates , currently 3% , should not be ruled out .
26 And the view should not be ruled out too summarily that all our desires grow up from the fact that certain things have been found immediately pleasurable .
27 Should not be ruled by a foreign power .
28 It would be almost impossible to ban such remarks in a court of law , but there is no reason why a judge should not be empowered to say that , in an appropriate case , the name of the person maligned should not be repeated in the press .
29 Mr Amanullah Khan , chairman of the JKNLF , told a press conference in Rawalpindi that Ms Sayeed should not be condemned for the crimes of her father , whom he denounced as a traitor .
30 Since professional development is a dynamic process , the training which some South Asian teachers have received in the subcontinent should not be condemned as totally inadequate as is currently the case in official circles .
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