Example sentences of "[conj] should " in BNC.
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| 1 | Major questions about the individual and society have preoccupied thinkers in all periods of history : the philosophers of Ancient Greece and Rome reflected upon the way society operated and/or should operate , and for centuries afterwards social and political theorists and philosophers applied themselves to similar questions . |
| 2 | Whether he is sober enough to go back and fetch his dilapidated car , or should soldier on , is the question here , or at any rate part of it . |
| 3 | Excuses not to do the work we think we might or should do , excuses not to be kind or considerate or whatever it is we feel we should be ? |
| 4 | ‘ Darling , ’ said Francis , ‘ or should I say Ms. Razorblades , could we attempt lunch ? ’ |
| 5 | It is not , however , possible to complain about whether such and such a point should or should not have been awarded . |
| 6 | Or should I put them back where they were ? ’ |
| 7 | London was , or should have been , the most exciting place in the world . |
| 8 | The UK exports no wastes , but accepts them from countries which either have or should have the capacity to destroy their own ‘ chemical arisings ’ , as scientists call waste products . |
| 9 | But he said Labour did not agree that Britain could or should abandon development , either for itself or for the developing world . |
| 10 | Can it be farmed intensively or should it only be reared extensively ? |
| 11 | Should we just enjoy the things that touch us in a painting or should it spur us on to learn more ? |
| 12 | Or should development be given over to a broad church of interest groups and realised by a catholic mix of architects working in a number of complementary styles ? |
| 13 | It is , however , a puzzle to me why this should be a surprise to anyone , or should even require exhaustive research . |
| 14 | So appraisal has , or should have nothing to do with what the tabloid press likes to call ‘ weeding out ’ . |
| 15 | Any fool can boost spending by taking out an overdraft ; no bank manager would deduce from such figures that the same growth could , or should , be extended indefinitely . |
| 16 | The East German crisis — or should one say simply the German crisis ? — is thus essentially a political crisis , and the answers to it , if there are answers , must also be political . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , Piper , fish , freshly caught , or should I say blown out of the water ! ’ |
| 18 | Whether it can now — or should be — applied to the Cairngorms is open to argument . |
| 19 | The idea of a God-given nature and destiny had the corollary that nothing so essentially predetermined could or should ever change . |
| 20 | According to the Chancellor , Nigel Lawson , in his Mais Lecture in june 1984 : ‘ It is the conquest of inflation , not the pursuit of growth and employment , which is or should be the objective of macro-economic policy . ’ |
| 21 | Because of a combination of so many unknowns , we , or should I say they — Pete and Dick did all the work , I just made the bikes — made a total cock-up of ability and distance . |
| 22 | If the parents say your wife should do this or should not do that , the boy listens to his parents . |
| 23 | It is , or should be , an hour in which the pupil gradually comes to learn to defend himself or herself in argument , to have confidence in his or her own prose style , to grow up intellectually . |
| 24 | Or should we give them back their dignity , their freedom and their rightful place in the natural order of the world 's rivers and oceans ? |
| 25 | Can you deal with inflation while bringing in the market , or should you deal with the first problem first ? |
| 26 | If Three Mile Island and , above all , Chernobyl , had not happened , the image of civil nuclear power would ( or should ) have assumed a more friendly warmth as the superpowers ' diminishing stocks of warheads dwindled towards a largely symbolic status . |
| 27 | But they are bankers , not industrialists ; they are scarcely more qualified than any other director to tell managers what they should or should not be doing . |
| 28 | It was this — you have now , or should have , at least a sovereign left out of your monthly pay & what survived of the 15/ from the Bank ; so is it not best to send it all to me at once ? |
| 29 | The essence of the court 's answer was that ‘ It is not in the public interest that people should try to cause or should cause each other actual bodily harm for no good reason . ’ |
| 30 | The legal problems are similar to those in the cases of mistake and deception : are all threats serious enough to justify regarding the crime as a rape , or should some threats be accommodated within a lesser offence ? |