Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argues the company has tried to monopolise the market by convincing customers that its relational database management system is effectively the computer , making it appear that all other functions and tasks the user may want to perform are bound tightly to the database — requirements that can only be met by other Oracle products . |
| 2 | ‘ What we may consider doing is to threaten to refuse to renew the temporary planning permission for the portakabin , ’ said Coun Christine Russell . |
| 3 | I 'm now going to say what you should 've done is write a bit more down on your short-term programmes . |
| 4 | The video will try to help them understand the misery they cause and what they should do to avoid being tempted down that road . |
| 5 | Letters should appear to have been typed individually . |
| 6 | The leader of the Front of Socialist Forces ( FFS ) Hocine Aït Ahmed ( quoted in El Pais of July 19 ) said that the army should withdraw to avoid being drawn into a power struggle within the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) ; FIS leaders should be brought to trial before civil rather than military tribunals . |
| 7 | I often thought I should like to have been taught by someone like him . ’ |
| 8 | What the report should try to do is to appear to offer an improvement in existing facilities and support to teachers and pupils without calling for a dramatic reorganization of timetables , syllabi or teaching methods . |
| 9 | The last thing any board should attempt to do is manage , which is just as well , because most board members are totally incompetent as managers . |
| 10 | This should be minimal and in a well-designed unit all you should have to do is replace the tube every six months or so , if used continuously . |
| 11 | Too many companies , says Mr Hammer , have used computers to automate existing tasks and procedures , when what firms should have done is to obliterate them . |
| 12 | Actually , what you should have done is got Jo to carry it around with her cos she could have got some very interesting conversations . |
| 13 | I er , look , erm , what I should have done is clarify what you 're doing here . |
| 14 | Being wise after the event , I realise now that what I should have done was to ask the jury to retire so that a formula could have been discussed and agreed upon , which would have disposed of the matter satisfactorily . |
| 15 | What Woody should have done was get divorced sooner . |
| 16 | Mr McCreary told the tribunal : ‘ As she was leaving my office , she said : ‘ I suppose what I should have done was take the time off sick anyway . |
| 17 | What she should have done was obey the voice that told her to pass right along the car . |
| 18 | But what I should have done was measured that , that would have been about forty nine centimetres , this 'd be out maybe |
| 19 | My friends said she 's trouble and the last thing I should have done was let her move in and I was a bloody fool not to believe them . |
| 20 | And the extra that they should have had is going to pay for these uniforms . |
| 21 | But it has been shown that few of the innovations of this period were without precedent in the policies of earlier years , and that much of the crucial thinking about the form these new institutions should take had been done in the inter war period . |
| 22 | Discussions about what they should wear had been interspersed with sexy gossip concerning the star of the occasion , Nathan Bryce . |
| 23 | So one thing that I 'm sure we 'll want to do is to support the work of the Secondary Science Curriculum Review . |
| 24 | The reason I say it 's , it 's , the system 's too old to go back to the Japs and say get this sorted out , rewrite the software because they 're just gon na say not likely we have n't made it for ten years , or whatever seven or eight years or whatever it is , it 's out of date , they 're not gon na start working on the system that 's that old all they 'll want to do is to sell you a new one |
| 25 | I have not said clear away , it is not the end of the lesson and some of you have not worked hard enough to make the end of the lesson now if you do n't want to make the whole poem rhyme , what you might want to do is to put two lines together at a time and have those rhyming , paired rhymes , rhyming couplets , you can do that . |
| 26 | Could that be for example because males with resources would want normally to acquire youthful wives , or perhaps it might in other words it could be could n't it that if males provide resources to females that they can use for primal investment , this would then have selective effects on females who will want certain things in order to get erm the investment and one of the things they might want to do is to look youthful . |
| 27 | When you 've ploughed your way through all that mail , glanced at each report and discarded the promotional bumph , the last thing you might want to do is read a book or journal on management . |
| 28 | All you 'll need to do is sit on a horse . |
| 29 | This view will be related to the determinate sentence that would have been passed but for the element of mental instability and/or public risk which led the judge to pass a life sentence and will also take account of the notional period of the sentence which a prisoner might expect to have been remitted for good behaviour had a determinate sentence been passed . |
| 30 | Because I I I 've said this to him before on on the floor of the house , that is what we are required to do in the insurance brokers registration council for all insurance broking firms , that is what parliament required in the insurance brokers registration act and it is not an onerous requirement on firms , it is not excessively expensive so it would meet I believe , any cost compliance test er that erm the er the D T I might wish to insist be carried out . |