Example sentences of "[modal v] be [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | No way , I 'm standing in a nice and warm place I do n't think I should be copying a tree anyway a trees a tree . |
| 2 | Even so , as Arnold Freeman argued in Boy Life and Labour ( 1914 ) if it were not for the admittedly frail system of compulsory schooling , ‘ we should be manufacturing a race of hooligans who would make our existing civilisation an impossibility ’ . |
| 3 | Using the personal food and drink audit we should be seeking a new balance in our diet that will provide us with all the essential nutrients that our bodies need . |
| 4 | If it has not already come , First Interstate should be expecting a telephone call soon . |
| 5 | But , perhaps the intention is that er , they do n't fund it , that it 's funded by the county council , but certainly I do n't think this committee should be approving a supplementary estimate . |
| 6 | Some decide that their child should be using a teacher beaker by the age of 6 months while others will happily breastfeed until the age of 3 years . |
| 7 | one or two odd things that you get wrong sometimes like when you should be using a C or a K or a C K or |
| 8 | ‘ You really should be riding a horse , ’ Artemis 's stepmother said to her one morning as they waited for the hounds to move off . |
| 9 | Research and development should be taking a bigger priority in our public expenditure and within the private sector than it is even now . ’ |
| 10 | Er , I agree with them that the elderly do have a bad deal , but if e , if somebody 's got to take money off well surely sho , the government should be taking a cut ten to twenty percent off of their damned wages ! |
| 11 | We are an essential part of society and should be taking a lead on things like this . |
| 12 | We should be building a side around him — not giving him away . |
| 13 | They should be getting a lot of work through the Channel Tunnel project . |
| 14 | I mean , really Sammy should be getting a bit more than that now should n't she ? |
| 15 | A bank would probably choose a bottom-up plan but should be choosing a top-down one . |
| 16 | I consider that this must also hold good for the right of establishment : in order for a national of a member state to be eligible to be regarded as exercising his right of establishment in another member state , it is not enough that he should be operating a fishing vessel registered in that state ; in addition , his activity must have other links with the territory of that State . |
| 17 | Their reaction was predictable : ‘ One expects them to groan , though I do n't know quite why we should be seeing a piece as it was performed 50 years ago . |
| 18 | Indeed in recent years the CNAA have suggested that the term ‘ non-standard ’ should no longer be used , since this implies a standard from which other students are deviating ; instead we should be considering a range of qualifications , all of which may be suitable as preparations for entry to higher education . |
| 19 | It could stop the erosion of rights catalogued throughout this book , and for this reason such a document needs to be considered seriously by the socialist opposition in Britain , and not written off as mere attempts at electoral reform when instead it should be developing a radical heart along democratic socialist lines . |
| 20 | In Britain , Canada , Israel , and the US , for example , there is reason to believe that professional levels of social work education should be placing a higher emphasis on training social workers to function in social service systems that use a broad range of personnel . |
| 21 | It was odd , Lucinda thought , that men should be doing a job more suited to women , but this was a real ship , was n't it , on which , if Molly was to be believed , women had yet to establish themselves . |
| 22 | Erm yeah , everybody should be doing a part . |
| 23 | I , I have a quandary here cos I 'm not quite sure whether I should be asking a question or proposing something against the deliverance but I have attended and er listened to a number of debates arising out of this matter of er the baptism of children and time and again it 's struck me that it starts off about baptism but it turns out to be a discussion about the parents . |
| 24 | You should be decorating a high-class bordello . ’ |
| 25 | A man in your position should be giving a lead . ’ |
| 26 | It may seem rather surprising to some that the Principal of Trinity College should be giving a lecture on fundamentalism and subjecting it to some criticism . |
| 27 | I have friends who are magistrates and I know they feel tempted to give a fine or bail , when they should be giving a prison sentence . |
| 28 | And its design is so far ahead of the others ( Dell , Gateway , Zeos et al ) that the style-conscious should be beating a path to Zenith 's door . |
| 29 | Right , okay , erm , there 's no mention of whether we should be keeping a copy of the final and I feel that we should have that in one of our procedures somewhere . |
| 30 | And Neil Kinnock and Kevin McNamara should be making a special effort to affiliate their own union , the TGWU , to the SDLP . |