Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For intensive Windows use you should be looking at 8Mb — so the more RAM slots the better . |
| 2 | Well there is some argument in that , but , you know they should be looking at alternatives somebody to drive you out the sites where they , the whole time they would take you there and bring you back . |
| 3 | So when it comes to making provision for the future , you should be looking at ways of making your money work harder . |
| 4 | We should be looking at ways of being more selective about treatment , and I think one of the reasons for wishing to study miocenia gravis in such detail is to be able to get so inside the mechanism of production of the disease that we can in fact simply turn off the miocenia disease process and leave the rest of the immune system just as it was . |
| 5 | On the one hand we have Prince Charles and Lady Di encouraging us to do voluntary work , telling us how noble it is and on the other hand we are told it might actually go against us because it takes up our valuable time when we should be looking for work . |
| 6 | For the future , and with Banishing gripes much in mind , I feel we should be looking for improvements in moling/boring techniques to a degree that , in suitable areas , over 100 metres of main can be laid from a single launch site . |
| 7 | Within Compact they should be looking for opportunities to improve the curriculum offer to students and promote the professional development of members of the department . |
| 8 | Tommy Gorman , the acting convener at Leyland Daf 's Albion plant in Glasgow , where 67 of the 550 workforce were made redundant last Friday , said : ‘ It is not the Dutch and Belgian Governments that should be looking after jobs in Glasgow — it is the British Government that should be doing something . ’ |
| 9 | As I say , the er , it is , it is two million less , than what the government has assessed we should be receiving in interest payments . |
| 10 | ‘ You should be thinking of marriage , selecting a suitable mate , getting ready to have children . |
| 11 | It is the Government 's view that the Commission should be thinking of ways of saving taxpayers ' money , not justifying fresh reasons for expending it . |
| 12 | ‘ I think we should be thinking in terms of a whole platoon of insiders . |
| 13 | A first level , supervisor 's plans probably concern the next day or the next week while the chief executive officer should be thinking in terms of the next decade in general terms and the next four or five years in more detail . |
| 14 | Mr Wallis said the town should be thinking in terms of an attraction of equal size and prestige as the Beamish Museum . |
| 15 | And Mr Wallis believes the town should be thinking in terms of an attraction of equal size and prestige as the Beamish Museum . |
| 16 | Otherwise , he says , he finds it incredible that the cardinals , monks , nuns , Swiss Guards and the ascetic curates of the Sistine Chapel should be managing per head , per day , 3 lb of beef , the equivalent of 12 large beefburgers . |
| 17 | Included in the four Lifetime Learning targets are that 50% of the workforce should be aiming for NVQs or units towards them by 1996 , and that by the year 2000 , 50% of the workforce be qualified to at least NVQ level 3 or equivalent . |
| 18 | If book publishing is to play its part in meeting these targets , then by 1996 at least 10,000 publishing personnel ( 50% of the 20,000 employed ) should be aiming for NVQs or units towards them . |
| 19 | One of the Confederation of British Industry 's ( CBI ) ‘ Lifetime Targets ’ for education and training is that , by 1996 , 50 per cent of the work-force should be aiming at NVQs or units towards them . |
| 20 | ‘ Hell on ice , we should be flying through walls by now . ’ |
| 21 | Behind us we could just make out the glimmer of lamplight from the tiny hotel on Lake Pehoe , where we should be dining on river trout , bife chorizo and good Chilean pinot noir before the night was out . |
| 22 | ‘ Because of the financial strength of the company ’ , Hobor said , ‘ it does n't have to constrain itself during a downturn — in fact its philosophy has always been the opposite : when you 're in a downturn , that is when you should be investing in plant and equipment ’ . |
| 23 | Hugh Bayley , Labour parliamentary candidate for York : ‘ Instead of cutting tax the Government should be investing in schools , the health service and above all in creating jobs . ’ |
| 24 | I enjoyed your act you should be singing in New York or LA . ’ |
| 25 | I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country . |
| 26 | We are a Christian church and we should be speaking of things of Christ . |
| 27 | ‘ Paul 's got the relevant diaries and his flight should be taking off mid-afternoon . ’ |
| 28 | In addition , any company intent on controlling expenditure should be examining how much it should be laying off risk in this way when , as Drew Hardie , divisional director of Willis Corroon in Edinburgh , points out , ‘ insurance is a cost-plus product with a substantial proportion of premiums — say , 30 per cent or 40 per cent — used by insurers to meet their own overheads ’ . |
| 29 | Perhaps she should be reading about infidelity instead of impiety . |
| 30 | You too should be listening to Negativland . |