Example sentences of "they [vb mod] be doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 2 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 3 | the ability of superiors to deal with interruptions to the work they may be doing and the number of problems which arise and need to be dealt with ; |
| 4 | Western economic pressure may be creating mental ill-health in the Third World ; and Western ‘ hi-tech ’ psychiatric methods are so inappropriate in this context that they may be doing little to mend the damage . |
| 5 | In all probability pupils will miss the point of the otherwise excellent work they may be doing on the phenomema of religion , its rites , customs , beliefs and moral values and so forth . |
| 6 | They may be doing the same job as older people , but there are questions about whether you might not make more jobs for young people if you paid them seventy-five per cent , two-thirds of , of the going minimum wage . |
| 7 | Thus a suspect defence completed the qualifying programme of six matches without conceding a goal ; they must be doing something right , although not for the first time their debt to Shilton was manifest . |
| 8 | ‘ They must be doing it off screen , ’ insisted hardened news editors . |
| 9 | If they annoy suck-holing , spittle-licking , brain-dead Tory scum like you so much , then they must be doing their job . |
| 10 | They must be doing well , ’ said Mrs Hnatiuk . |
| 11 | I hope they 're going to support the wall at the , our end they 've done nothing , I suppose they 've just taken it down , but they must be doing something to underpin it or bolster it |
| 12 | As we discuss the changing role of the traditional high-street off-licence , it is all too plain that none of the first six customers have browsed or bought wine or done what the market research says they should be doing . |
| 13 | However , by far the most common response from all parts of the country was ‘ they could relax and concentrate better at night as their minds would not be thinking about the jobs they should be doing ’ , . |
| 14 | All too often people have a board with footstraps , so they assume they should be doing funboard manoeuvres , such as the carve gybe . |
| 15 | Complications arise when people do n't understand what they should be doing at work . |
| 16 | Only a month ago we were told by the Engineering Council that technology lessons under the national curriculum were a ‘ farce ’ — and teachers did n't have a clue what they should be doing in the classroom . |
| 17 | They are , in brief , hard-working and somewhat stressed ; feel dissatisfied with the job they are doing ( or at least bits of it ) ; confused about what they should be doing but wanting to change in the direction of greater impact and relevance of what they do ; have no clear idea how to go about it ; do not feel optimistic about things getting better ; are worried about the amount of emotional energy the job takes up ; and mostly do the best they can , try not to think about it all too much , and hang on till the holidays . |
| 18 | Ideally Moss would like the open system vendors to go one step further and take over development of Tivoli 's distributed management framework entirely — ‘ because they should be doing the standards and API work . ’ |
| 19 | Ideally , Moss would like the open system vendors to go one step further and take over development of Tivoli 's distributed management framework entirely — ‘ because they should be doing the standards and API work . ’ |
| 20 | We have a body that deals with police here and they should be doing there duties , no good the local police tell us there 's only eight members a shift , cos we do n't believe it , they get on the Council and so they someone say what about all these other places that are being robbed of a night time . . |
| 21 | Executives and professional specialists need to think through what information is for them , what data they need : first , to know what they are doing ; then , to be able to decide what they should be doing ; and finally , to appraise how well they are doing . |
| 22 | Are you getting any way in in persuading the authorities , the relevant authorities , both central and local government that they should be doing more to recognise what you 've described as the diversity of family options ? |
| 23 | they should be doing . |
| 24 | The yellow-jacketed policeman shuffled uneasily from foot to foot , uncertain of what they should be doing now . |
| 25 | Getting people to change their approach and expect that with training , expect to have to analyze what they what they thought they 're going to get out of it , why they should be doing it . |
| 26 | She did not understand why they should be doing this and her failure to understand reminded her of something . |
| 27 | They should be doing that work , if they 're asking us to design a remit , price it and then they 're using that remit to get prices from other people , er I would suggest that , that we perhaps ought to have words with our clients on that basis a and say we 're quite happy to tender in competition but erm i you ought to give it a little bit of thought before you actually put the thing . |
| 28 | It is tragic that they should be doing that to local authority employees . |
| 29 | His limbs dangled and seemed forever uncertain what they should be doing with themselves . |
| 30 | But in fact what they should be doing is planning effort into things which underpin the fabric of society and to underpin families |