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

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1 Really , Emily should be training this girl up and delegating more .
2 but I 'm trying to make you aware of the fact that at some stage we should be looking long and hard at closing , right we 'd ask the questions , you 're quite good at asking questions , some sale field do n't ask question , do n't ask questions , right see you want to have a
3 I do n't think you should be chewing that one Michael cos if you , if you open it up it 'll stick on your tongue
4 and when I see the buses now running around , they seem to run everywhere I do n't on earth what kind of running board they 've got because in my day it was so well regulated that erm you just recorded certain intermediate stages and I quote Witton and Rushmere you get , used to get Witton Terminus , Norwich Road Bridge , Sherrington Road , Barret Corner , Electric House and you gave an indication of the time that those buses should be passing those times .
5 And , you should be taping this .
6 ‘ My dearest darling , I do n't know whether I should be writing this to you , but I still think of you every day of my life , first thing when I wake up and last thing before I go to sleep .
7 Nisodemus glared at him as he went on , ‘ Now , we really should be sending some of the women and children to the — ’
8 even if we are we should we should be managing that internally .
9 With the present developments in European Works Councils across national borders , we should be learning other languages .
10 We should be boycotting French goods , particularly farm produce .
11 On our way home from school we should be nibbling all the crust , the nice crosspieces to eat .
12 ‘ Do you think ’ , Quigley said to her , ‘ that the little bloke should be watching this … ? ’
13 It says it has 100 orders for the systems , nine models of the HP 3000 and HP 9000 lines ; a handful of the new 3000s went out in August ; the first 9000s should be shipping this month .
14 Hyndman , now a keen supporter of the war , argued that Labour should be demanding general nationalization of industry in the name both of equality of sacrifice and of war-fighting efficiency .
15 The government should be devoting more time to considering how the wartime counter-inflation policy could be continued in peacetime .
16 The science report suggests that in the fourth and fifth years pupils should be devoting 20 per cent of their time to science .
17 To Craddock , Rose was an unexploded bomb ticking away in Ballater 's green and quiet pasture at a time when the colonel should be enjoying well-earned peace .
18 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 .
19 From level 7 , pupils should be using Standard English , wherever appropriate , to meet the statements of attainment .
20 I can only suppose that commercial flights fly to where the VCR should be using inertial navigation , but this was not quite within our capabilities .
21 The WHO strategy is based on the belief that hospitals are often overloaded by patients with minor complaints who should be using cheaper and more basic services .
22 So we believe that unions should be effective , should be active trades councils should be effective , should be active , should be using modern methods , but without , and I stress this , without losing sight of our traditional concerns and values .
23 And you 'll end up maybe only using one or two and you should be using ten , and you must go in a silence trap , that is so , so important
24 I it does n't speak very highly if I may say so Group Captain , for R A F discipline if what you 're telling me and telling the committee that you think that pilots should be using this facility , would be using this facility when they 're ordered not to .
25 Underlying his bullishness was a feeling of incredulity that Oldfield , one of his oldest friends , should be taking such a step at all , and that Oldfield could have drifted so far away from him without Branson having read the warning signs .
26 He said that we should be taking 100,000 deaths per year seriously .
27 If you leave your car , even if not for long , you should be taking necessary precautions .
28 I mean what is the purpose of all this , bringing the cost of living down — I do n't know , a thousand things that politicians pride themselves on doing — it seems to me that they all should be taking second place to the lives that up and coming generations are going to live .
29 Well er I was never of the opinion that we should be taking unofficial action .
30 If so , the Government should be taking another look at the amount of grant that that council receives .
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