Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] be [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll definitely be taking care this time , ’ said Martin , who was allowed out of hospital on Christmas Eve . |
| 2 | If this had n't happened , I 'd probably be teaching music . |
| 3 | Enya : ‘ If this had n't happened , I 'd probably be teaching music . ’ |
| 4 | My friends are still traumatised by the shock of passing over , but rest assured I shall soon be attempting communion with them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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and eleven and if the Noble Lord , Lord er if , if the House were er to disagree with my Amendment or if it were to be withdrawn and the Noble Lord , Lord amendment were , were put , I think he would agree that it would only tha that that a decision by the Committee would only relate to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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Ben and I were sure that you must still be feeling jet lagged . |
| 9 | To do this you should always be looking upwind to spot the give-away dark furry patches on the water that mark their approach . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Imagine yourself as an examiner working on a huge pile of scripts in pleasant summer weather when you would rather be playing tennis . |
| 13 | Hopefully you will also be raising money through sponsorship to help selected projects in countries far worse off than our own . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Er , we need to now have some to er cover the cost of proposed adaptations to bring support staff together , which I 'll , which we 've got in hand , and we 'll also be miring money , I think from the salary budget to help with the cost of er the total quality training . |
| 17 | But , honestly , I think we 'll just be wasting time if I go on like this . ’ |
| 18 | We 'll certainly be offering business administration , and may offer the care award , too , in conjunction with the College of Nautical Studies . |
| 19 | The project we 're hoping to sponsor , there 's now Friends of the Earth in Ghana , erm who 've Doctor Plumtree quite rightly said , Ghana are working hard on re-forestation schemes , and a scheme that Friends of the Earth is doing is a community re- forestation scheme , because a lot of the re-forestation schemes are from the top down , and they do n't actually get the villagers involved in whatever , so we 'll actually be funding community reforestation schemes , several species of trees , particularly those which help to regenerate the soil , especially if it 's been degraded because the trees have been chopped down , or what-have-you . |
| 20 | We 'd always be fighting coz we knew the older fellas had . |
| 21 | I 've seen Dad and we shall soon be having dinner . ’ |
| 22 | Before the end of the session , we shall also be contacting centre co-ordinators , asking for information about first destinations of candidates who have completed a general SVQ . |
| 23 | We shall also be asking centre co-ordinators to help us in collecting important information about candidates ' first destinations after taking general SVQs . |
| 24 | They eat ‘ dinner ’ at nine in the evening or even later , while I am ravenous at five o'clock when at home we would usually be having tea . |
| 25 | Er because of the problems the stock piles of coal at various pits , I think there is about forty five million tons stocked at various pits , they 'll still be using coal from Bywater and so that there 's no necessity to mine coal in such er vast amount . |
| 26 | But of course if he worked for Raleigh where they 've got a vast labour force a vast pay as you earn scheme then any income would be taxed by Raleigh as a subsidiary source so there would be another code number there , they would actually be collecting tax at two sources , but they would still need to allocate allowances , it may well be that , at Raleigh for example , they 've covered that by allowances in which case they pull back five hundred pounds there to collect . |
| 27 | Some of them will be making a video recording of the items which have been performed in the past and they will also be taking part in an International Festival of Movement and Dance in Edinburgh in April . |
| 28 | they can only be doing damage to th to the election chances I mean |
| 29 | When he hangs up his gloves he says he 'll just be doing alot more gardening instead . |
| 30 | It might just be saving money ? |