Example sentences of "be thinking [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Mr Moynihan is prudent , he will already be thinking ahead to the World Cup of 1994 . |
| 2 | Now that you are well into your final year at university of college , you will be thinking ahead to what comes next . |
| 3 | Barnum is showing for 3 weeks , but the theatre must be thinking ahead all the time . |
| 4 | This is a good time to be thinking strategically and finding new ways for our skills to be of service to the public . |
| 5 | You should be thinking beforehand , is this really right or is n't it ? |
| 6 | The Brigadier seemed to be thinking furiously as he helped himself to another glass of port . |
| 7 | It is the job of those responsible for managing that plant and that technology to be thinking furiously what the next step is , and what changes and improvements they can see , because if you are not doing this your competitors will . |
| 8 | Now if I was a cadre and I received that I think I would be thinking right erm if I really want to be at the forefront of this that 's the policy that I want to promote erm and if the peasants in my area are not demanding this and not achieving this well we , I , I ca n't be seen not to be going it , I 've got ta go with this . |
| 9 | By then I might be thinking straight . ’ |
| 10 | You could be looking at a minimum of one , two , three years ' salary , because you might be thinking well at least that 'll give me a chance to get on , to get back on my feet . |
| 11 | erm It 's eighty minutes , it 's that eighty minutes is a very hard game obviously erm and they will be thinking exactly the same . |
| 12 | However , all too often when two-spit digging is recommended , the point that is not made clear is that we should be thinking primarily about the needs of the plants that are to grow in the dug soil . |
| 13 | In practice the resolute supporter of Party A is not likely when he lists his preferences to be thinking primarily of any eventual cooperation between his party and Party B. His chief concern will be the success of as many as possible of Party A's candidates , and it will be to all of them that he gives his higher preferences . |
| 14 | — when surely they should be thinking instead about the person who has died . |
| 15 | It was irrational to be so resentful now when it was so nearly over anyway , but she was too infuriated by his failure to love her to be thinking clearly . |
| 16 | McKillop seemed to be thinking hard as if struggling with some mathematical conundrum . |
| 17 | Twoflower seemed to be thinking too . |
| 18 | I 'm always sitting thinking if I had n't got them , I 'd be thinking now was it on the card I have n't got you know |
| 19 | As we watched them through the kitchen window , Heathcliff seemed to be thinking aloud . |
| 20 | That this Second World War would not last so long as the First , and even that it might not be a war on such a world-scale , were legitimate presumptions at the time , and Eliot was firmly of the opinion that we should be thinking then and there of the world which would finally emerge . |
| 21 | At the very least , both communities should be thinking seriously about the possibility — and how they would react to it . |
| 22 | IF I was an Australian I would be thinking very hard about it . |
| 23 | ‘ I know you must be thinking very much of your father at this moment , ’ he said . |
| 24 | But since he seemed to be thinking only of me , I felt this was an ungenerous idea . |
| 25 | The nuances are often quite subtle , but the following example shows how the press is trying to construct a sex maniac , while the police seem to be thinking more on the lines of an abductor without sexual assault necessarily being involved . |
| 26 | So perhaps we should be thinking more about political education and perhaps we should be thinking more about encouraging them to be non-conformist in the sense that they are prepared to ask questions , to challenge and not to accept glib answers that teachers give out willy nilly … |
| 27 | So perhaps we should be thinking more about political education and perhaps we should be thinking more about encouraging them to be non-conformist in the sense that they are prepared to ask questions , to challenge and not to accept glib answers that teachers give out willy nilly … |
| 28 | Trust Blanche to be thinking so far ahead . |
| 29 | Yet I seemed at the time to be thinking rationally , to be making common-sense plans . |