Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [v-ing] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Research and development should be taking a bigger priority in our public expenditure and within the private sector than it is even now . ’ |
| 4 | A bank would probably choose a bottom-up plan but should be choosing a top-down one . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You should be decorating a high-class bordello . ’ |
| 8 | And Neil Kinnock and Kevin McNamara should be making a special effort to affiliate their own union , the TGWU , to the SDLP . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | But especially when they put them at the end of a sentence where they should be putting a full stop . |
| 12 | I still reckon Wilko 's top priority should be signing a top class centre-half — unless SuperJon continues his amazing surge of form . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | If you put the cassettes on there although we should be having a new system |
| 15 | Gorbachev must be facing a similar problem in the USSR , in the taciturnity of Soviet youth . ’ |
| 16 | The penny share flourishes on the fallacy that if you get more shares for your money , you must be getting a better buy . |
| 17 | ‘ They must be expecting a nuclear attack . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 … |
| 20 | ‘ You must be feeling a right berk . ’ |
| 21 | In which case , Martin Bicknell 's posterior must be feeling a little tender . |
| 22 | Poor thing , she must be having a rotten time just now . |
| 23 | Even at this distance he could make out the faint octarine glow in the air that must be indicating a stable magic aura of at least — he gasped — several milliprime ? |
| 24 | The Tory candidate for Skipton and Ripon , Mr David Curry , must be employing a good getaway driver to meet his punishing campaign schedule . |
| 25 | A person may falsely believe that the horizontal moon , because it is perceived as being larger , must be presenting a larger appearance . |
| 26 | Let me look in your eyes and see you might be getting a wee bit bloodless actually I mean that 's the other thing Cathy , you 're a bit pale in there . |
| 27 | If you write a spreadsheet for somebody else , you might be using a sixty six megahertz four eight six duel processor erm , spaceship , and , somebody is using a steam driven I B M A T or something , and it runs quite acceptably on your machine , a reasonable speed , and you give it to somebody else on that steam driven thing , and it takes ages to do anything , and er , you press a button and they wait half an hour sort of thing . |
| 28 | The fact that he might be taking a considerable risk only added to his excitement . |
| 29 | He wished all the units had gone self-governing to allow the district to concentrate on its needs assessment and purchasing role and predicted that the units might be expecting a cosier relationship than he anticipated . |
| 30 | Now capitalist landlords might be the development certainly in terms of production you , you might be disrupting a viable , commercial , capitalist orientated economy , and would you really want to do that ? |