Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A guitarist your age should be looking to the future . |
| 2 | You should be looking to the future with excitement and anticipation . |
| 3 | Rather than looking for deviations from pattern , perhaps one should be looking at the patterns produced by the modes of rationality which agents typically find it conventional to construct . |
| 4 | And he wants to , at the very least I think it 's reasonable to say , he wants to influence the Communist Party that , that this is the way you should be looking at the world and it , it is different to the way you were looking at it . |
| 5 | They should be looking at the number of guns held illegally . ’ |
| 6 | She shut her bedroom door , knowing fate had decreed that the book she was reading should be resting in the sitting-room , leaving her with nothing to do but make her bed , sit on it , lie on it , unmake it , jump on it , push it round the floor — there were limits to what you could do with a bed , and it was the only piece of furniture in the room . |
| 7 | this action is impossible if you either a ) do not hold the latch tool correctly ( the handle of the tool should be resting in the palm of your hand with the thumb uppermost and on top of the latch area of the tool ) or b ) if you do not apply some downward pressure to the knitted fabric with your free hand . |
| 8 | Pascoe is back on Wearside after a four-month loan spell with Swansea and Roker No 2 Ferguson said : ‘ He should be bashing on the door to get into this side . |
| 9 | In this respect , there were many at the meeting ( including me ) who felt the least we should be demanding of the industry and the regulators ( the DTI ) was that only the very highest environmental standards currently practised internationally ( the Norwegian oil field was given as a good example ) would be acceptable for operations in Cardigan Bay . |
| 10 | In this respect , there were many ( including me ) who felt the least we should be demanding of the industry and the regulators ( the DTI ) was that only the very highest environmental standards currently practised internationally ( the Norwegian oil field was given as a good example ) would be acceptable for operations in Cardigan Bay . |
| 11 | ‘ Execution of his duty ’ means that he should be acting in the protection of life and property . |
| 12 | She should be longing for that day to come — should be ticking off the seconds till she was free of him again . |
| 13 | I believe the Army should be building on the team they have here , not relocating to Glasgow . ’ |
| 14 | Erm I do n't think that as a committee that we should be getting into the detail necessary of what 's going wrong and I think er Harold made that quite well . |
| 15 | It should be getting at the truth quickly and at the moment , there 's an awful lot of paper to get there . |
| 16 | It was safe to assume , he said , that no more than a dozen MPs knew whether they should be reaching for the champagne or the shotgun when the Government announced last month that the business rate was to be set at 36p in the pound last month . |
| 17 | She did remember that a word sounding like ‘ sewers ’ was uttered , and it puzzled her to think why anyone should be ringing in the middle of the night to enquire about the state of the sewers . |
| 18 | By mid-1986 some 10 or 12 rigs should be operating in the South China Sea and by then expenditure on Chinese offshore oil could be running at around $1 billion per year . |
| 19 | Although ideally basic competence in moving about independently should be developing by the time the pupil first comes to school , there is likely to be among visually handicapped children a range of levels of skill in independent mobility and in competence in using the environment fully and safely . |
| 20 | Above all , the Prime Minister and the Government should be negotiating for the inclusion of a wider and more positive concept of economic convergence in the treaty than any that has yet emerged . |
| 21 | Our argument was that British Telecom and the other operators should be negotiating with the regulator to make sure that the necessary infrastructure commitments are met . |
| 22 | I think we should be going with the C E C proposals and we should maintain our influence and our role in the Party as a collective organization , a mass organization , of over eight hundred thousand members and will be steadily rising in the foreseeable future . |
| 23 | When deciding where the company should be going for the future it is extremely important that one should not lose sight of the need for synergy since adventuring outside one 's own field contains high added risk which the shareholders will very quickly appreciate . |
| 24 | Establishing trends from the past is of enormous help in determining precisely where we are at present and where we should be going in the future . |
| 25 | So I hope hopefully this evening will be a very constructive meeting and we 'll certainly welcome your views about what you feel should be happening to the theatre or should be taken or should be taken place at the theatre , what should be on at the theatre , and er things that you feel that are n't happening at the moment . |
| 26 | Now these are all things that you should be doing with the baby all the time anyway are n't they ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Erm it would be extremely difficult t for them not to occupy our thoughts , I 'm not sure whether your question is is inviting me to consider what the European Community should be doing in the context of Bosnia . |
| 29 | You should be praying to the Whale . |
| 30 | It 's proper that we should be asking in the context of these proposals for boundary changes , affected as they are by the decision of the er first of all the French national assembly and now the French government to make life difficult for the other member states as far as the ratification of these proposals are concerned , it 's right that we should be asking what is the position of the British government in relation to these matters . |