Example sentences of "we should be [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 We are a Christian church and we should be speaking of things of Christ .
2 Not to have a vote , because of the guillotine and for other reasons , is to fail the very people for whom we should be speaking .
3 We should be boycotting French goods , particularly farm produce .
4 I 'm here because I want to be , because I like your company , and I think we should be enjoying it .
5 and erm I just think that women are so strong and , and another thing that I find er that is very important , is perhaps there 's women here we should look at why there 's only one female prison in Scotland and about fourteen male lot and including young offenders institutions and er , I mean what is it we are as agenda er just less criminally minded , more controlled , more clever , what , you know we should be teaching men .
6 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 .
7 In this chapter , I would like to examine the relevance of these guidelines for the direction in which we should be seeking to reform the basic economic institutions of the U K economy .
8 While supporting the practitioners ' role as proxy for the patient in purchasing , there is a need to recognise the limitations of this , and wherever possible we should be seeking the opinion of the public .
9 Fibre helps you slim ; and we should be eating at least 30 grams a day of it .
10 ‘ I think we should be thinking in terms of a whole platoon of insiders .
11 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 .
12 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 …
13 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 …
14 And we will devote an afternoon at alternate sales conferences to brainstorming sessions involving the sales force , editors and others , to look at different publishing areas , backlist cookery or whatever , promotions and areas we should be thinking to expand . ’
15 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 .
16 So how far do you actually want God to forgive you up to three times and then no more you know it 's it 's that kind of er question that we 're asking and that we that I feel that is something we should be thinking about that how far should a Christian go in forgiving .
17 On another occasion , I would want to argue that , despite the problems , comparisons with the English system can only give ground for encouragement and that we should be thinking of extending the Scottish system beyond the age of 16 to include offenders under 21 .
18 Certainly he expects to be happy there , but even if we were to claim that his ultimate end is pleasure we should be using ‘ end ’ in another sense than when we say that his flight was the end to which booking the ticket was the means , since to enjoy living in a place is not an activity separate from and subsequent in time to living there .
19 Or perhaps it is that life is simply not fair , and that skill and cunning are what we should be using to navigate its choppy waters , rather than making open displays of bravado against the odds .
20 ‘ I am beginning to think we should be using kayaks after all . ’
21 Thus the spelling unit which maps onto the phoneme is not the letter , but the grapheme , and the term we should be using is ‘ grapheme-phoneme rules ’ ( not letter-sound rules ) .
22 We are destroying worlds we should be using .
23 We should be using the £10,000 million that is spent on Trident to create jobs in the United Kingdom and to improve our national health service .
24 We should be using e-mail for internal communications much more widely than we do at present , in order to reduce the amount of paper we currently distribute , and to send specific messages to individuals and groups .
25 We should be using such systems within the Horticultural Education course , since future employers of Garden students will increasingly demand familiarity with such systems in future .
26 Mrs er has er actually said that we should be getting some more money and then she spoilt it by saying we should be using the money we have n't got more er better use it and er maybe knocking the traffic li er islands out will save us a problem cos we 'll get a few kids knocked down and we wo n't have to bother with em .
27 We should be looking for a market-based solution to our problems , not snooping in people 's backyards to check out what kind of barbecue they are using . ’
28 Now that the ATB is again providing financial management training we should be looking to involve farmers , wives as much as possible .
29 We should be looking not at such practice in the past but rather in the future — more of that later .
30 Warlow pointed out , quite correctly , that this is not the sort of inversion we should be looking at : if the Earth flipped over in this way the Sun would still rise in the east , whereas there are legends that , before the ( undescribed ) catastrophe , the Sun rose in the west , and that it is only since that catastrophe that the Sun has risen in the east .
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