Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] going [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | When asked a question such as ‘ What do you do ? ’ , it is implied that something more should be going on , that standing around on a comer must be a means to an end . |
2 | What happens if we go back to the core , and have a really close look at what should be going on ? |
3 | Vera : ‘ It 's the other way around it should be going on ; that 's what I say ’ . |
4 | What if something like this you know if I give this to Arthur and John and say er they just joined I give them this , this personal development plan , who should it put pressure on should do , yeah cos you should be going up to them and saying well I 'm supposed to have done you know X Y Y and they go ah yeah , and then they go up with these excuses yeah . |
5 | By right and custom , he himself and James here should be going back to the house for the reading of the will , but this very new Sir Joseph had made it evident yesterday that he wanted no reading done in the house and that he would let them know when he wanted the matter dealt with . |
6 | At first I took them for Maria 's , though it seemed strange that she should be going down to the beach at that time . |
7 | This figure should be going down by now , not increasing . |
8 | It should be going down . |
9 | Were talking about whether we should be going out to work or not ? |
10 | I think it 's very patchy , but I think that there is some evidence that , certainly younger men , younger people and younger men are much more willing to erm accept that there is division of labour within the home and that women equally should be going out to work as men . |
11 | I know exactly what you must be going through , ’ Mr Darling commiserated with Maggie . |
12 | Fabia quickly , if reluctantly in the light of what Cara must be going through , had to state . |
13 | Thoughts of her dear sister and all that she must be going through started to get to her , and , as love and conscience did a double act , she could n't help thinking that surely she could do more . |
14 | A lot of people who have n't previously raped must be going around raping . ’ |
15 | Were you to continue on this path it would take you to Corrour Station on the edge of Rannoch Moor , and judging by the brutal erosion , something exciting and irresistible must be going on up there to lure so many boot-clad walkers along the track . |
16 | It must be going on twenty-three years old . |
17 | Something must be going on in the black box labelled ‘ consumer ’ . |
18 | In a flash , Gedanken realized what must be going on . |
19 | Of course , the considerations of cost and benefit in this paragraph are all surmise , but something like this almost certainly must be going on . |
20 | The philosophy that if it goes down in the US it must be going up in Europe has meant that Smurfit is looking to Europe as its main engine for growth in the months to come , when it must decide how to spend the $1bn cash raised from the recent financial restructuring with Morgan Stanley . |
21 | Smoke detector 's batteries must be going down cos it 's making a funny noise . |
22 | I use to drink scrumpy you know , you know , I , I mean , I must be going back before your time , you know , a long time , you know , we 're talking about drinking scrumpy in the thirties and forty and fifties , when scrumpy was scrumpy and when we were glad of it Oh , I use to love the old scrumpy . |
23 | ‘ It 's weird how people think that Craig and I are together — they assume we must be going out or having an affair , ’ says Jo . |
24 | They must be going out of their minds with worry . ’ |
25 | we might we might be going over to see Mary on Sunday |
26 | He wanted to be quite sure of not missing anything that might be going on there . |
27 | His instincts finally rang the bell and told him this man had more than a casual interest in what might be going on downstairs . |
28 | The NEB itself seemed to imply more than prospecting might be going on : ‘ It has been suggested that some of the investigations might have been more extensive than might normally be expected . |
29 | But from the child 's point of view , what might be going on ? |
30 | perhaps it it might be going on |