Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If the Labour Party genuinely believe that the SDLP is the Labour Party in Northern Ireland , then it should be advising the major unions to affiliate to the SDLP in Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | I assume Chairman that that if this amendment is whether it is carried or not we should be debating the other amendments separately . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The remaining locations should be using the new system by October this year which will then see the completion of a major personnel and data processing project which will have taken two and a half years to plan and implement . |
| 6 | For both environmental and economic reasons we should be taking every possible step to reduce road traffic . |
| 7 | A bank would probably choose a bottom-up plan but should be choosing a top-down one . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The initial reaction is to wonder why two sets of parents should be undertaking an identical ritual and yet , obviously , have such different approaches to it . |
| 10 | So what are you suggesting , are you suggesting that they should be bombing the general population ? |
| 11 | If we were to hold that the division of a final hearing into parts deprived the parties of an unfettered right of appeal , we should be placing an indirect fetter upon the ability of the court to order split trials . |
| 12 | If Britain were to make such a gesture we should be doing an international service . |
| 13 | In other words , it should be offering the potential buyer at least one , possibly only one , clear reason for purchase . |
| 14 | So we should be asking the other committees to look after their carry forwards , to give some of their carry forwards to us , to fund five B. |
| 15 | You should be decorating a high-class bordello . ’ |
| 16 | And Neil Kinnock and Kevin McNamara should be making a special effort to affiliate their own union , the TGWU , to the SDLP . |
| 17 | We should be spending a great deal of our time making children into heroes , identifying good work , putting good examples of work on display and bringing it to the attention of others . |
| 18 | Does not that mean that we should be putting a great deal more money into such research or is it to remain the Cinderella of medicine for ever ? |
| 19 | But especially when they put them at the end of a sentence where they should be putting a full stop . |
| 20 | I still reckon Wilko 's top priority should be signing a top class centre-half — unless SuperJon continues his amazing surge of form . |
| 21 | And I think for what we 're paying we should be having a wee bit er , the dir , the building should be a looking a wee bit more respectable and presentable to what it is ! |
| 22 | If you put the cassettes on there although we should be having a new system |
| 23 | If he was involved in something underhand , surely she should be feeling the expected surge of triumph , delighted at being proved right ? |
| 24 | Gorbachev must be facing a similar problem in the USSR , in the taciturnity of Soviet youth . ’ |
| 25 | She must be getting the green stuff elsewhere . |
| 26 | ‘ They must be expecting a nuclear attack . ’ |
| 27 | She realised she was on her own ; George must be expecting a true Conflict Situation if he was already saving his last bullet for himself . |
| 28 | He thought that she must be feeling a great deal of pain , and that there was nothing he could do about it , and that , if his suspicions were correct , her pain would get a great deal worse … |
| 29 | ‘ You must be feeling a right berk . ’ |
| 30 | In which case , Martin Bicknell 's posterior must be feeling a little tender . |