Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ’ I 'm aware that what we 're saying may be used but we do believe it is the most energising thing that has happened in my 21 years as a GP It has been good for care , public health and management . ’ |
| 2 | Thus the overload and pressure that teachers are experiencing must be concealed . |
| 3 | The sense of inadequacy felt by children who are failing may be reinforced by having a ‘ special ’ teacher assigned to them . |
| 4 | Information from existing database software engineering tools the customer may be using can be integrated into the BusinessObject dictionary at the entity level . |
| 5 | Information from existing database CASE tools the customer may be using can be integrated into the BusinessObject dictionary at the entity level . |
| 6 | Either the directive or the reasons for holding it to be binding should be counted but not both . |
| 7 | It 's a success story The Chancellor of the Exchequer must be praying will be repeated across the country . |
| 8 | Here the difficulty I found in talking about psychoanalytic criticism is compounded , not because I am an unbeliever , but because anything that the middle-aged male commentator says about feminism is liable to be wrong : to be approving may be condemned as patronizing , and to be critical is to be sexist . |
| 9 | Virgin invited the Clarkes to carry out an independent audit , with the assurance that any money found to be owing would be paid . |
| 10 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 11 | He wondered if the fact that there were no tracks in the direction from which they were supposed to be coming would be noticed , and thought not . |
| 12 | Similarly , points which occur to you when you are reading should be brought up either in class or in a tutorial with your lecturer . |
| 13 | Surely those politicians , members of royalty , athletes or anyone who wishes to make a clarifying statement should have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that the media-kings of speculation can not only guess what the content of the future announcement will be , but can make it so much more interesting by speculating on the response , plus the reaction to the response by the person who probably intended to say the opposite to what the ‘ experts ’ had been speculating would be said for the past 48 hours . |
| 14 | Cases on which you are relying should be checked in the list of cases judicially considered in the Law Reports Indexes ( red and pink ) or in The Digest , lest they have been overruled , not followed or doubted , or in the hope that they have been followed or approved . |
| 15 | I also suggest that much of the bewilderment felt by teachers about the nature of the subject that they were teaching can be traced to both Brian Way 's and Dorothy Heathcote 's disclaimer that drama could be important in itself . |
| 16 | Alexander , always a connoisseur of garments , realised that Frederica had changed her style , that the clothes the young creatures were wearing could be described as a parody of the clothes Frederica had worn at their age , and that Frederica 's new style was not unrelated to this shift . |
| 17 | It did seem , however , that a series of needs which were surfacing could be responded to and change enhanced through the creation of an industry/school partnership . |
| 18 | But it was essential that the various rooms of the Residency through which they were retreating should be defended and relinquished in concert , so that they should not find themselves outflanked . |
| 19 | Writing of murder thus , in a thoroughly formal way , you can successfully establish two different things : that a murder has taken place and in consequence the story you are telling must be looked on as being of some weight , and that nothing has happened to arouse any revulsion in your readers . |
| 20 | The voice-over device ( their spoken thoughts ) only works intermittently because much of what they are thinking could be spoken . |
| 21 | The NeXT Computer Inc workstations it is reselling can be supported by CLARiiON over the network but not directly . |
| 22 | That being so , B can not be trying to deceive A. The only way in which the assumption that B is cooperating can be maintained is if we take B to mean something rather different from what he has actually said . |
| 23 | These figures are collected continuously , and at any particular moment details of what is happening can be worked out . |
| 24 | To say that they have priority is not to say that they have absolute hegemony over all other accounts at all other times , but rather that as a practical technique they are the accounts from which one 's initial hypotheses as to what is happening must be taken . |
| 25 | The very fact that Barthes does not present his work in terms of a theory of ideology means that the interpretive basis on which he is operating can be withheld from the reader . |
| 26 | Five buildings of a hospital he is designing will be seated on these bearings . |
| 27 | Although this effort has been piecemeal and has occurred in widely differing contexts , the direction in which it is moving can be identified . |
| 28 | The fabric he is shifting will be taken to one of the many ateliers in Paris to be cut up and sewn into ready-to-wear , middle-market fashion . |
| 29 | What he 's doing might be considered unfortunate for the baby — though I 'm not sure it is — but it could be of immense value to humanity as a whole . ’ |
| 30 | But there must be concerns at the prospect of the need to break up such a service and whether the work it is undertaking can be maintained and appropriately financially supported in smaller units . ’ |