Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it may be simulating the same sport , but it 's a totally different sort of game . |
| 2 | It may be prolonging the snail 's life . |
| 3 | If the Labour Party genuinely believe that the SDLP is the Labour Party in Northern Ireland , then it should be advising the major unions to affiliate to the SDLP in Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | ‘ It should be filling the skyline . |
| 5 | Look out for the Unisys Corp stand this week , it should be demonstrating the U6000 personal computer , its new Unix desktop system configured for Univel Inc 's UnixWare — but only behind the scenes . |
| 6 | Consequently , in S6 the identity signal these , while it should be confirming the co-referentiality of actions with " conditioned reflex actions " , in fact co-refers with other Reflex Actions . |
| 7 | In other words , it should be offering the potential buyer at least one , possibly only one , clear reason for purchase . |
| 8 | However , whilst it might be stating the obvious , the overriding factor in this situation has been the sudden influx and continuing constant supply of heroin at an ‘ affordable ’ price . |
| 9 | Often there is insufficient management talent on board to achieve this objective , or it might be stretching the existing team too much so that their existing businesses may suffer . |
| 10 | It might be bending the law , but could the director and his wife be said to be ‘ the person making the car available to them ’ ? |
| 11 | The company says it 'll be shipping the equipment to Tripoli on Friday , despite a Foreign Office warning that Britons in Libya are being refused exit visas in the row over the Lockerbie bombing.Mike Rowbottom reports |
| 12 | Look out for the Unisys Corp stand this week , it 'll be demonstrating the U6000 PC , its new Unix desktop system configured for Univel Inc 's UnixWare behind the scenes . |
| 13 | including one from British Telecom , which it seems to be being done quite well , so it 'll be improving the environment week . |
| 14 | It says it 'll be doing the ‘ next generation ’ of single-chip , 64-bit Sparcs and the Version 9 architecture due to be voted on this month by Sparc International ( UX No 380 ) . |
| 15 | It could be telling the children all of it in fact . |
| 16 | As a consequence , feudal contracts in the full sense of the term must have been more important for supplying castle-guard than for campaigning ( though it would be pushing the argument too far to deny them any significance in the field ) . |
| 17 | It would be breaking the habit of a lifetime . |
| 18 | It would be a trespass to goods and it would be usurping the owner 's rights , for only he would have any right to do such an act and no one could contend that there was any implied consent or authority to a customer to do any such thing . |
| 19 | Paragraph 19 was merely ancillary to paragraph 16. ( 2 ) If the FPC did not impose limitations it would be facilitating the frustration of the doctor 's paragraph 16 duties . |
| 20 | It would be b because the straw , the thatch had been pulled all straight it would flowing down , and then they used to er they used to th throw it over , it would be throwing the water away from the stack had been built like an egg you know . |
| 21 | Britain , he said , needed to obtain satisfactory improvements in the deep-sea mining regime and that it would be exploring the prospects for these . |
| 22 | My Lord the only point of interest and it 's really one that I took in the of the submission is that if you use an up to date nineteen ninety three figure for calculating it when it was first back to years three and a half , two and a half and one and a half years ago , then intre it would n't be fair if interest is awarded on that as well because in a sense the increase in the figure that inflation and the increased cost of living has produced because you use an up to date figure , probably equates with the interest and we can the figure an up to date one to avoid just that otherwise it would be getting the figures for each of those years and then working out interest . |
| 23 | Not not because it would be meeting the housing needs of York . |
| 24 | if you did n't put enough middle in it , it would sort of sink then , then it would be drawing the water in |
| 25 | ‘ It would be ignoring the reality of the current trading position if I said I did n't believe there were more closures to come . |
| 26 | But it is well known that the provision of advice services nationally is uneven and as the best.known generalist advice agency , the CAB feels that it would be failing the wider community if it did not consider what barriers may be preventing people from approaching a CAB for advice . |
| 27 | To lose him would be worse than losing himself : it would be losing the only chance left to him for the life he had always and violently lusted after . |
| 28 | Published by the research arm of the Department of Transport , the report comes shortly after the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham announced it would be introducing the scheme later this month . |
| 29 | But it would be stretching the meaning of citizenship to regard these rights — however desirable they may be from other points of view — as forming part of an enlarged ‘ citizenship ’ . |
| 30 | The republic proclaimed , as a sovereign and independent state , that the Constitution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( SFRY ) was no longer valid on its territory and that it would be continuing the process of assuming de facto authority . |