Example sentences of "[modal v] be [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The knees should be pointing at the same angle as the toes . |
| 2 | A guitarist your age should be looking to the future . |
| 3 | You should be looking to the future with excitement and anticipation . |
| 4 | Rather than looking for deviations from pattern , perhaps one should be looking at the patterns produced by the modes of rationality which agents typically find it conventional to construct . |
| 5 | Perhaps we should be looking at the mental state not of individuals but of society as a whole . |
| 6 | Chairman you 've got to allow me because by the time I 've finished you wo n't be able to stop me , er , but I mean if there 's a lot of money floating about in this area then I think that er , some committee or other should be looking at the the refurbishment of the courts in Devizes which are a disgrace , and partly the fault of this council when th they were allowed to get into such a state , and I mean at some stage or other , something or else is gon na to have to happen to them and I would hope that the magistrates in their wisdom in some committee or other are , are deciding to take these courts back into use . |
| 7 | I do support this , which is Michael 's resolution because we should be looking at the financial costs and er going into the practical aspects of this and let's , let's face it er there are many aspects which are financially unviable and we should be aware of exactly where we stand on that . |
| 8 | They should be looking at the number of guns held illegally . ’ |
| 9 | And he wants to , at the very least I think it 's reasonable to say , he wants to influence the Communist Party that , that this is the way you should be looking at the world and it , it is different to the way you were looking at it . |
| 10 | The idea of the Big Chief Exec himself crashing in on the detail seems a poor use of resources itself and no more a guarantee of success when he should be looking after the whole business ( you have heard the litany : ‘ At first he came to every meeting , then occasionally he was called away , then he sent some deputy or other , and in the end we thought , what 's the point , if he does n't care , why should we ? ’ ) . |
| 11 | Their concern was that in September , when he should be moving into the second year infants with his age cohort , he would be far behind . |
| 12 | this action is impossible if you either a ) do not hold the latch tool correctly ( the handle of the tool should be resting in the palm of your hand with the thumb uppermost and on top of the latch area of the tool ) or b ) if you do not apply some downward pressure to the knitted fabric with your free hand . |
| 13 | She shut her bedroom door , knowing fate had decreed that the book she was reading should be resting in the sitting-room , leaving her with nothing to do but make her bed , sit on it , lie on it , unmake it , jump on it , push it round the floor — there were limits to what you could do with a bed , and it was the only piece of furniture in the room . |
| 14 | Pascoe is back on Wearside after a four-month loan spell with Swansea and Roker No 2 Ferguson said : ‘ He should be bashing on the door to get into this side . |
| 15 | In this respect , there were many at the meeting ( including me ) who felt the least we should be demanding of the industry and the regulators ( the DTI ) was that only the very highest environmental standards currently practised internationally ( the Norwegian oil field was given as a good example ) would be acceptable for operations in Cardigan Bay . |
| 16 | In this respect , there were many ( including me ) who felt the least we should be demanding of the industry and the regulators ( the DTI ) was that only the very highest environmental standards currently practised internationally ( the Norwegian oil field was given as a good example ) would be acceptable for operations in Cardigan Bay . |
| 17 | ‘ Execution of his duty ’ means that he should be acting in the protection of life and property . |
| 18 | She should be longing for that day to come — should be ticking off the seconds till she was free of him again . |
| 19 | I believe the Army should be building on the team they have here , not relocating to Glasgow . ’ |
| 20 | Erm I do n't think that as a committee that we should be getting into the detail necessary of what 's going wrong and I think er Harold made that quite well . |
| 21 | It should be getting at the truth quickly and at the moment , there 's an awful lot of paper to get there . |
| 22 | It was safe to assume , he said , that no more than a dozen MPs knew whether they should be reaching for the champagne or the shotgun when the Government announced last month that the business rate was to be set at 36p in the pound last month . |
| 23 | She did remember that a word sounding like ‘ sewers ’ was uttered , and it puzzled her to think why anyone should be ringing in the middle of the night to enquire about the state of the sewers . |
| 24 | By mid-1986 some 10 or 12 rigs should be operating in the South China Sea and by then expenditure on Chinese offshore oil could be running at around $1 billion per year . |
| 25 | The Labour Party should be advocating in the strongest terms a substantial increase in Child Benefit , even if this means increasing income tax on people earning as ‘ little ’ as £14,000 , together possibly with increases in excise duties . |
| 26 | Although ideally basic competence in moving about independently should be developing by the time the pupil first comes to school , there is likely to be among visually handicapped children a range of levels of skill in independent mobility and in competence in using the environment fully and safely . |
| 27 | This is undoubtedly an all European problem , United States , Canada , Japan , everyone else should be involved , er I think we should probably identify with the Soviet 's aid and help , hm , key projects like the conversion of military industry into consumer goods , er , like transport and communications , key areas of the economy where relatively small amounts of investment could produce big returns , and then finally it seems to me we should be extending to the Soviet Union for membership of er , international financial organisations like the world bank and the international monetary fund , whichever in criteria of course for helping countries and for integrating international aid to those countries . |
| 28 | Above all , the Prime Minister and the Government should be negotiating for the inclusion of a wider and more positive concept of economic convergence in the treaty than any that has yet emerged . |
| 29 | Our argument was that British Telecom and the other operators should be negotiating with the regulator to make sure that the necessary infrastructure commitments are met . |
| 30 | The Government should be negotiating on the basic question of the European central bank , to ensure that , in the Prime Minister 's words to me , ’ a European central bank would be accountable to a directly elected body . ’ |