Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nisodemus glared at him as he went on , ‘ Now , we really should be sending some of the women and children to the — ’ |
| 2 | However , if the Goblins should be slain some or all the Squigs may break away and go wild . |
| 3 | A I think that the design considerations of your notice board should be given some careful thought . |
| 4 | The Plowden Report on Children and their Primary Schools ( 1967 ) recommended no change to section 76 , but said that parents should be given some choice whenever this was possible . |
| 5 | The Helsinki process should be institutionalised straight away with the formation of an Environmental Security Council which should be given some legislative powers as soon as possible . |
| 6 | The person to be interviewed should be given some indication of the topic and possibly of the kinds of questions they might be asked but it is important that there should not be any rehearsal of the interview as they will then lose their spontaneity . |
| 7 | It also saw frequent proposals that diplomats should be given some systematic training to fit them for the posts they were to occupy . |
| 8 | Given that safety for passengers must be paramount , you might like to consider if such a code of practice should be given some statutory status , or how else the good practice it describes might be disseminated and enforced . |
| 9 | Local authorities should be given some money to get them out of the mess . |
| 10 | And that the district should be given some form of a guide that enables them to be er to apply the particular circumstances to their own district . |
| 11 | ‘ I propose therefore that Customs should be given some discretion to mitigate the penalties for some misdeclarations , to enable them to take account of the individual circumstances of the trader . ’ |
| 12 | For instance : ‘ I think we should be getting some of our employees to work from home ’ or ‘ I 'd like to suggest that we go home early . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I think we should be getting some of our employees to work from home . ’ |
| 14 | A , and so , to me , I think for what we 're paying we should be getting some service and we are not getting it ! |
| 15 | Mrs er has er actually said that we should be getting some more money and then she spoilt it by saying we should be using the money we have n't got more er better use it and er maybe knocking the traffic li er islands out will save us a problem cos we 'll get a few kids knocked down and we wo n't have to bother with em . |
| 16 | She should be getting some sleep , she told herself irritably , not lying here trying to erase the memory of a very disturbing kiss from her mind . |
| 17 | 16.39 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 6 should be reading some texts not written specifically for children or young people , eg short stories with a contemporary setting . |
| 18 | Where was the little girl , or er younger I do n't want to make up because , but now I feeling I 'm aged it , I should be wearing some make up here , with just a feeling we should be , when I look in the mirror oh its getting old so |
| 19 | See you 're doing them all green like you should n't be , you should be doing some brown |
| 20 | At the meeting Kohl yielded to Polish pressure in agreeing that the treaty should be signed some months earlier than he had anticipated . |
| 21 | Even if he had been gulped down by the City , Tunney should be making some difference , feeding in his own amendments . |
| 22 | Simon Draper , in particular , realised that as the Sex Pistols began to disintegrate it was Lydon who was ‘ the valuable commodity ’ , and that Virgin should be putting some effort into cultivating a relationship with him , with an eye to the future . |
| 23 | Hence he envisages that for every sphere of public- or private-sector activity there should be established some arena of potentially destabilising and broadly-based conflict over the use of that power . |
| 24 | The public should be spared some of the more bureaucratic checks and delays at ports and airports that will occur , for example , at Dover and elsewhere , when there are too many uniformed officials stopping people unnecessarily . |
| 25 | If the psychs were on line , Daine should be losing some of his control . |
| 26 | It should be planted some distance away from other plants . |
| 27 | Electricity demand is likely to grow by between 2% and 2.3% for the remainder of the century and by the year 2000 nuclear energy should be contributing some 40% of demand . |
| 28 | Should be showing some signs of ease now . ’ |
| 29 | There are relevant stair er Chairman which you can look out of place at the present moment of time but they will need to be addressed at some point in time in the future and therefore one could be forgiven for wanting to prioritise various but in general terms , the strategy that has been er looked at is the progress of St Albans in general , there may be small elements of it and some of these have already touched upon but in general that is no sound strategy er which over a period of time and in the process of that it will be essential to monitor erm the effect of some of the changes as you go forward to see in fact whether the other elements of strategy that were erm put in to that er work were in fact still necessary and whether they should be have some . |
| 30 | Instead she suggests that the content of the formal curriculum should be entirely overhauled : ‘ for girls to become a more powerful group , they must be given some understanding of females ' past powerlessness … in other subject areas , like English literature , social studies , art , biology and — where it is taught — psychology , there is a similar need to examine what girls are learning about women 's abilities and potential , and therefore what they should ( realistically ) expect for themselves ’ ( Hannon , 1979 , p. 115 ) . |