Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] be [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll just be betting horses or chasing women or something like that . |
| 2 | I 'll probably be doing hampers next year . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll definitely be taking care this time , ’ said Martin , who was allowed out of hospital on Christmas Eve . |
| 4 | If this had n't happened , I 'd probably be teaching music . |
| 5 | Enya : ‘ If this had n't happened , I 'd probably be teaching music . ’ |
| 6 | My friends are still traumatised by the shock of passing over , but rest assured I shall soon be attempting communion with them . |
| 7 | I shall merely be requesting information about a taste which puzzles me , not demanding a further reason without which the whole string of answers will prove to be baseless . |
| 8 | Er I hope that makes the matter clear , because when we come to make a decision on this group of amendments , er when I er seek the opinion of the er Committee on my Amendment five , I shall only be seeking agreement to Amendment five and its related amendments er eight and eleven and if the Noble Lord , Lord er if , if the House were er to disagree with my Amendment or if it were to be withdrawn and the Noble Lord , Lord amendment were , were put , I think he would agree that it would only tha that that a decision by the Committee would only relate to the amendments in his name because we have in fact four alternatives before us which we are debating together . |
| 9 | This sort of personal experience adds a potent deterrent effect to more objective considerations which may already be swaying lenders against a particular group or class of potential customers . |
| 10 | He said that after 3 ½ years of competition between British Telecom and the Cable and Wireless subsidiary , Mercury Communications , it was time to survey customers ' experience and , if necessary , ‘ identify practices which might still be inhibiting competition ’ . |
| 11 | Some of them are reluctant to ask visiting relatives , who may already be doing shopping for them , to run extra errands , such as taking prescriptions to the chemist or clothes to the launderette or dry cleaners , changing their library books and collecting their pension ; so it is always as well to check to make sure that you are meeting these needs , or arranging for someone else to do so . |
| 12 | When removed from the toy-town world of textbooks , information about investment and calculations based on an understanding of interest rates can be illuminating for the young mathematician who may also be studying geography , business studies or economics at school . |
| 13 | Nevertheless his career reveals the strong point of a ‘ heroic ’ view of evil , the weak point of a Boethian one : if you regard evil as something internal , to be pitied , more harmful to the malefactor than the victim , you may be philosophically consistent but you may also be exposing others to sacrifices to which they have not consented ( like being murdered by Viking ravagers or , as The Lord of the Rings was being written , being herded into gas-chambers ) . |
| 14 | For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction . |
| 15 | ‘ Ben and I were sure that you must still be feeling jet lagged . |
| 16 | To do this you should always be looking upwind to spot the give-away dark furry patches on the water that mark their approach . |
| 17 | You 'll probably be ringing people up anyway trying to get them to understand . |
| 18 | If you 're converting your loft , or want a fitted bedroom or bathroom , you 'll probably be making use of fibreboards in one shape or another . |
| 19 | She 'll still be marrying Nahum . |
| 20 | You 'd simply be committing suicide : you 're either a killer or some fruitcake who thinks he 's a killer and neither wanted in today 's modern Army thank you . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ That way , you could just be adding lines that are n't there . |
| 22 | I thought of my mother , she would probably be baking scones , her apron dusted with flour . |
| 23 | Because , according to Pöhl , ‘ monetary policy must not be obstructed by fiscal policy ’ , an ‘ independent ’ central bank would not only be completely unprecedented in recent history , it would also represent an immense concentration of power in the hands of unaccountable bankers , who would perforce be implementing policies which might be very unpopular , within an area in which there may well not be the kind of national consensus which obtains in Germany . |
| 24 | Imagine yourself as an examiner working on a huge pile of scripts in pleasant summer weather when you would rather be playing tennis . |
| 25 | Retailers who will definitely be taking space are Dixon Sports , Strand Cards , H Samuel , C&J Clark and Dorothy Perkins . |
| 26 | Hopefully you will also be raising money through sponsorship to help selected projects in countries far worse off than our own . |
| 27 | However , with more than 25% of all district councillors returned in 1990 being women , we may just be seeing evidence of a ‘ bottom up ’ trend in female participation in electoral politics in Britain . |
| 28 | We should really be laying men off ; there is no money in the bank . ’ |
| 29 | The logical conclusion of all this is that there can no longer be a justification for the massive nuclear arsenals held by both sides , that only the absolute minimum of nuclear defence is required and that , because President Yeltsin , too , now has his finger on the nuclear button , we should now be doing business with him on this issue as on so many others . |
| 30 | We 're constantly reworking songs and I imagine in the next few months we 'll probably be reworking members too . |