Example sentences of "[modal v] be happy " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Auditel 's Malgara , everyone should be happy . |
| 2 | If she loses this gigantic amount in a year she should be happy . |
| 3 | At the age of twenty-eight she had awakened one morning to the realisation , clear as dawn , that to hope for things did not necessarily bring them about , that there was no earthly reason why she should be happy , healthy and husbanded . |
| 4 | ‘ You big silly , you should be happy . |
| 5 | Most shops have at least one windsurfing enthusiast , who should be happy to advise you further since you could become a future customer . |
| 6 | Beaming all over his face he related how he had told the mother congregation that he had woken up so happy … bursting with joy and excitement at the birth of a new baby … and they should be happy too ! |
| 7 | Or that you do n't ‘ deserve ’ success , or should be happy with life as it is ? |
| 8 | Clearly , if you or I should happen to chance on a second , battered and with a dozen pages adrift , we should be happy to buy it for a modest sum . |
| 9 | ‘ Fear and love do not mix , it seems to me — one should be happy in one 's love , ’ he said soberly . |
| 10 | And you should be happy because you have made your sale , given your customers credit , and avoided giving it yourself . |
| 11 | Children should be happy at school and acquire positive attitudes to learning , developing new interests as well as pursuing old interests . |
| 12 | " It is good that the natives should be happy for surely that is ultimately what we , the Company , are in India to procure … " |
| 13 | The excitement of this first fall of rain had filled her with a desire that things should be different , that she should be happy again . |
| 14 | ‘ Then you should be happy . ’ |
| 15 | I knew he was convinced that if he made love to me I should be happy . |
| 16 | Mother 's objects were the detritus of a life scraping for pennies , making things last beyond their natural span , so that her fatherless children should be happy . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said firmly , ‘ I should be happy to . ’ |
| 18 | He hesitated for only a moment , then glanced briefly at Alexandra and said , ‘ I should be happy to . ’ |
| 19 | You should be happy to be rid of them . ’ |
| 20 | I suppose that I should be happy with that response . |
| 21 | I should be happy to discuss any particular problems with the hon. Gentleman at any time . |
| 22 | I should be happy to visit Southend-on-Sea travelling by British Rail at the earliest opportunity . |
| 23 | I should be happy to add that training scheme to the many other excellent training schemes we have at present . |
| 24 | If hon. Members would like to debate the five guillotine motions that I introduced , I should be happy , if the Leader of the House was prepared to give us time , to debate those matters . |
| 25 | I should be happy to have a five-hour debate on this part of his speech alone , let alone the rest of regional policy and government . |
| 26 | If the Conservative Government were serious about a genuine effort to reach a consensus about the way in which we should mirror what is taking place in the rest of Europe — east , central and west — and in the United States and Canada with the devolving and decentralisation of services , we should be happy to reach an agreement with them . |
| 27 | I asked him if he would be prepared to support the Government 's privatisation proposals , and he said : ’ I should be happy to do so , provided that the general public can apply for shares . ’ |
| 28 | I should be happy to look into that correspondence and to consider the hon. Gentleman 's point . |
| 29 | ‘ I should be happy to accept the position . |
| 30 | He says , " You should be happy . |