Example sentences of "[modal v] be [verb] [pos pn] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's only one issue to which you should be giving your time and energy and that has the potential to give you back far more than you could ever lose . |
| 2 | Norman Willis , TUC general secretary , said : ‘ At a time when unemployment rates are going through the roof , the last thing the Employment Secretary should be spending her time doing is fiddling about with holiday dates . ’ |
| 3 | But I would have said that something like cutting meat , if you 've got butchers around , it 's not something that you would be , you should be spending your time doing . |
| 4 | ‘ They 'll be wasting their time . |
| 5 | " I 'm afraid you 'll be wasting your time with me . |
| 6 | ‘ Go ahead ; you 'll be wasting your time , of course . ’ |
| 7 | I tell you what , you know , at my age I bet you , I think you 'll be wasting your time . |
| 8 | after , we 'll be wasting our time |
| 9 | Think of how you could be spending your time instead ; you could go swimming , make model aeroplanes or learn to yodel — it does n't matter what you do as long as it is fun ! |
| 10 | ‘ Did n't I say you 'd be wasting your time ? ’ |
| 11 | I think you 'd be wasting your time . |
| 12 | " You 'd be wasting your time — if he 's made it to Dublin , then he 's vanished . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'd be wasting your time . |
| 14 | However , thought she , it would be right to take the children , which I did — thus proving , not for the first the last time , I 'd be wasting my time applying for the Mensa test . |
| 15 | I 'd be wasting my time — and yours ! ’ she added bitterly . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've a feeling I 'd be wasting my time . |
| 17 | The position of the health professional — doctor , health visitor , or nurse — is not to pretend that their bit of health promotion is going to have more than a small additive effect to all the other necessary inputs , and they should be aware that they may be wasting their time if the other inputs are not there . |
| 18 | It 's hard to imagine anybody writing more artificially , but I hope you feel , as I do , there can hardly be a piece of poetry in which the distress of the poet and the feeling that he may be wasting his time comes through in a more anguished fashion . |
| 19 | The inmates at Bullingdon jail near Bicester may be serving their time , but they claim they 're being served up insufficient and unpalatable food . |
| 20 | MYSELF : If an Arab entered a room and separated fourteen Jews from the rest , or a white man in a peaked hood with slits for eyes the same number of number of blacks , nobody would be wasting their time denying the anti-semitic or racist nature of the crime . |
| 21 | Local authorities were warned by the leader of the Conservative group on Stirling District , Keith Harding , that they would be wasting their time in resisting change . |
| 22 | The sergeant hesitated long enough to decide he would be wasting his time by further argument . |
| 23 | I would be wasting my time , unless some theory had been proposed rendering the weight of earlobes important , such as a theory connecting the size of earlobes with the incidence of cancer in some way . |
| 24 | If this was any indication as to how she would be spending her time in London then she would have to find something to do , and quick . |
| 25 | Her husband has been awarded a Research Fellowship at Queen 's College , Birmingham , so for the next two years they will be dividing their time between Birmingham and Derbyshire . |
| 26 | Sir Anthony , who remains chairman of IBM UK , will be dividing his time equally between IBM and AEA . |
| 27 | During the month , thousands of solicitors will be giving their time to make wills through Will Aid . |