Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the saying goes , the journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step , so by now you should be thinking of putting all your good intentions into practice and getting out to walk . |
| 2 | And of course if it 's a husband and wife , the two of you together should be thinking of this sort of information because you can do something about it in your will . |
| 3 | It is the Government 's view that the Commission should be thinking of ways of saving taxpayers ' money , not justifying fresh reasons for expending it . |
| 4 | ‘ You should be thinking of marriage , selecting a suitable mate , getting ready to have children . |
| 5 | On another occasion , I would want to argue that , despite the problems , comparisons with the English system can only give ground for encouragement and that we should be thinking of extending the Scottish system beyond the age of 16 to include offenders under 21 . |
| 6 | We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 7 | In fact the computer digests it for him to give him and overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 8 | Wondered what woman , if any , I should be thinking about in five years ' time . ’ |
| 9 | And she asked herself why she should be thinking about those now , which seemed to bring forth other questions : Who was he ? |
| 10 | The correlation between such unlikely indicators and target markets was not discovered by accident , and marketers who want to get the most out of the results of the 1991 census , which will shortly become available , should be thinking about how they will do it now . |
| 11 | So if you intend to keep this fish you should be thinking about where you are going to put a rather large tank in the long term . |
| 12 | For several years , in the late 1960s and the early 1970s , sociologists seemed to spend as much time and effort arguing about how they should be thinking about and studying the social world as they did in actually doing research . |
| 13 | they should be thinking about it right from the word go . |
| 14 | I know I should be thinking about taking her to a mother-and-toddler group so she can meet people and make friends , but something keeps putting me off . |
| 15 | ‘ It subtly reminds the client that they should be thinking about legal issues on a regular basis , ’ said . |
| 16 | So how far do you actually want God to forgive you up to three times and then no more you know it 's it 's that kind of er question that we 're asking and that we that I feel that is something we should be thinking about that how far should a Christian go in forgiving . |
| 17 | ‘ What Tory back-benchers should be thinking about is the mass retribution that will come upon the Tory Party as people discover the full impact of this treaty if it is ever brought into effect . |
| 18 | ‘ I think we should be thinking in terms of a whole platoon of insiders . |
| 19 | A first level , supervisor 's plans probably concern the next day or the next week while the chief executive officer should be thinking in terms of the next decade in general terms and the next four or five years in more detail . |
| 20 | Mr Wallis said the town should be thinking in terms of an attraction of equal size and prestige as the Beamish Museum . |
| 21 | And Mr Wallis believes the town should be thinking in terms of an attraction of equal size and prestige as the Beamish Museum . |
| 22 | It 's something which really should be thought about continuously er and carried on . |
| 23 | All these points should be thought about and considered in relation to the space you have to play with ( a square room , rectangular room , cramped galley , and so on ) as well as any existing appliances , and should certainly give you a clearer idea of the sort of room that will answer your needs . |
| 24 | The number systems we use as yardsticks should be thought of as being made not of wood but of elastic which can be stretched or shrunk to our convenience . |
| 25 | Idea the participant observer is virtually a spy , since to be accepted completely in a particular capacity within a group the observer should be thought of as actually being in nothing but that capacity . |
| 26 | To say the least , it is unfortunate that a multiply influenced process with many stages in it should be thought of by sociobiological proponents and their critics alike ( e.g. Solomon , 1978 ) as having an invariant outcome and a single explanation . |
| 27 | They should be thought of as models rather than theories because they are orientated to action and to practice . |
| 28 | The nonwords should be thought of as new words , previously unencountered , and as letter-strings which could be words . |
| 29 | This is , of course , a simplified picture of a sense-spectrum : it should be thought of as having , at least potentially , many dimensions , and as continually growing , amoeba-like . |
| 30 | We intend to reject this approach , and instead to embrace Dahl 's claim that ‘ every large corporation should be thought of as a social enterprise ; that is , as an entity whose existence and decisions can be justified only insofar as they serve public or social purposes ’ . |