Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government should be devoting more time to considering how the wartime counter-inflation policy could be continued in peacetime . |
| 2 | Now , that 's , that 's what you should be doing each time with these With that in and and that much in sort of |
| 3 | Now my knowledge of that database is nobody should be spending any time doing anything with that , cos nobody 's ever said it works . |
| 4 | He had qualified at university in geology and geography , had tried teaching in Hull but found it too confining and when one of the old guard told him he should be spending more time with children who had some potential rather than those to whom he felt committed , he resigned on the same day . |
| 5 | He should be arriving any time . ’ |
| 6 | As discussed in this chapter , a number of challenges must be met any time a transformational change is attempted : |
| 7 | The WP test must be made each time the adventurers re-enter this corridor . |
| 8 | All drinking dishes and all food receptacles must be washed each time before their contents are replenished . |
| 9 | She and her husband have only recently moved into their marital home and their first child is due at Christmas , but they do n't even know where they 'll be living this time next week . |
| 10 | What do you think you 'll be doing this time next year ? |
| 11 | The decision to enter could be announced any time after completed negotiations and entry could take effect the next weekend , when markets are closed . |
| 12 | There 's not much else to tell you except that he could be arriving any time . |
| 13 | ‘ You said you 'd be gone some time ! ’ she charged in self-defence , totally unaware , unlike Travis , that the firelight made a glorious halo of her hair . |
| 14 | Or you might be better sitting down and ordering yourself a drink : the waiter may be gone some time . |
| 15 | HE MAY BE GONE SOME TIME |
| 16 | Mountain View , California-based Drexler Technology Corp says it has informed Sony Corp that it believes Sony infringed its patents with a a new eight-track Dynamic Digital Sound system to be introduced this summer in Columbia Picture 's ‘ Last Action Hero ’ movie : Drexler has two patents on the reading of high density optical data in a strip format and believes the two patents may be infringed each time digital sound from the movie track is played back using the Sony system . |
| 17 | It should be remembered that an offer may be withdrawn any time before acceptance , unless the person making the offer receives something of value to keep the offer open or the offer is made under seal . |
| 18 | The company may be given more time in which to submit its return under s 118(2) , TMA 1970 , but this must be agreed with the inspector . |
| 19 | It would be done this time . |
| 20 | I knew this to be true and believed firmly that when the word was given me in 1986 it would be fulfilled some time in the future . |
| 21 | Furthermore , it became clear that a number of the parties would be arriving some time before the three days set aside for the conference , thus giving themselves time to prepare their ground and gauge the mood of fellow guests , though their exact arrival dates were , again , uncertain . |
| 22 | Stephen and he agreed that in view of the value to the island of Crystal Springs ' recruitment plans , the regulations would be waived this time and Michael Stein 's long-term permit would be processed as quickly as possible . |
| 23 | Eliza was under no illusions that this meant they would be spending more time together : ‘ John , of course , will not remain there long , ’ she told her mother , ‘ but be wandering off in some direction … ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know ’ , wrote Francis Bacon , ‘ you shall be thought another time , to know that you know not . ’ |
| 25 | This is not simply a matter of becoming uncomfortably aware that the rapid increase of world population and accelerated industrialization pose a serious threat to the environment both by the massive consumption of finite material resources and by the emission of man-made heat and chemicals into the atmosphere ; a situation dramatically portrayed in a report by the Club of Rome ( Meadows et al. , 1972 ) , subsequently much criticized but now taken more seriously again , which concluded that : ‘ If the present growth trends in world population , industrialization , pollution , food production , and resource depletion continue unchanged , the limits to growth on this planet will be reached some time within the next one hundred years . ’ |
| 26 | An additional administrative charge of £5 per person will be made each time a booking is changed . |
| 27 | The Duchess will be told quite clearly that if news or information gets out publicly in any way she could be fined , for example will be warned that time spent with her children will possibly be curtailed if she does n't tow the line . |
| 28 | I am delighted that we will continue that process under my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State in the new Parliament which will be formed some time late next spring or in the summer . |
| 29 | Providing the underlying maths is the same for all systems using the file , the same shape will be reproduced each time . |
| 30 | Suffolk secretary Konrad Machej said : ‘ Teachers will be spending more time teaching , which is what parents really want . ’ |