Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a complete an utter novice I am seeking a publication that will explain to me in more or less layman 's terms how my computer works and what I should/could be doing with it ! |
| 2 | Instead of threatening Cumani , the punter with the violent rather than lucky streak should be kicking himself for not biding his time before backing Shellac . |
| 3 | By the time you get all the crew up on the windward rail , which would be in true wind of 10 – 12 knots , you should be flattening the bottom of the main and opening up the leech . |
| 4 | That day , in the padre 's little room , she accepted it was best she should be leaving Fenton Bishop , best she should be away from the sight of the uniform Rob had worn and the constant sound of aircraft . |
| 5 | ‘ The discussions have been taking place for such a long time that I rather got used to the idea that I should be leaving . |
| 6 | ‘ Just the same , I should be leaving soon , ’ she said firmly . |
| 7 | Maybe we should be leaving her alone to get it out of her system . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He should be leaving about now , and if I know him he 'll have left me to pay his hotel bill . |
| 9 | No , we should be leaving it we er |
| 10 | No way , I 'm standing in a nice and warm place I do n't think I should be copying a tree anyway a trees a tree . |
| 11 | The man who constantly criticises may be trying to change you into the person he wants you to be , when he should be loving you for the person you are . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're wasting our time and yours when you should be hunting down those IRA swine . ’ |
| 13 | What has happened to your firm and the rest of the Big Six , that they should be training accountants and then turning them away ? |
| 14 | Really , Emily should be training this girl up and delegating more . |
| 15 | To begin with , I think there should be training to erm governors , for example , to train them how to how they should be able to select the right person for the right job and try and try and get rid of this stereotype image . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ We are bound to face criticism from both sides , from people saying we should be locking up thousands of juvenile offenders and throwing away the key and others throwing up their hands and saying they are like the old approved schools and will be universities of crime . ’ |
| 17 | It is the villains we should be locking up . ’ |
| 18 | We should be helping to conserve the environment and discouraging the unnecessary destruction of trees . ’ |
| 19 | Peter Rost , the council 's chairman , who is a former Conservative MP and ex-member of the Commons Energy Select Committee , said yesterday : ‘ The council intends to make it clear that we will no longer accept fobbing-off , soothing noises from politicians , regulators and suppliers , the decision makers who should be helping us . ’ |
| 20 | We should be helping not blaming each other . ’ |
| 21 | The discovery of deaf tutors in a sign language class causes a review of the concept of ‘ the deaf ’ as disabled , since for the first time the student may be in a learning situation where the person whom he feels he should be helping is actually shown to be more competent than he is . |
| 22 | As one single mother noted about the financial support she received from her mother , ‘ it 's not very nice her doing it because I feel I should be helping her ’ ( Cohen , 1991a , p. 40 ) . |
| 23 | It 's more than enough that you should be helping me . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I should be helping you , ’ said Tessa . |
| 25 | We should be helping to shape the democratic institutions on which Europe will depend . |
| 26 | He feels that the church should be helping people overcome problems rather than making money through showing the church to tourists or buying paintings . |
| 27 | Dorigo and Kelly got caught out many times on Saturday , the central defenders are suspect , so the full-backs should be helping them not leaving them more exposed . |
| 28 | ‘ Then perhaps it 's me that should be mistrusting you , ’ I said . |
| 29 | Even so , as Arnold Freeman argued in Boy Life and Labour ( 1914 ) if it were not for the admittedly frail system of compulsory schooling , ‘ we should be manufacturing a race of hooligans who would make our existing civilisation an impossibility ’ . |
| 30 | those long-term projection type issues as to what is the general vision , direction that they 're going in , and therefore what should we as a group be recommending to our manufacturing colleagues that they should be manufacturing . |