Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [modal v] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half of us could continue to drown ourselves in usquebaugh and self-pity ( ‘ Here 's tae us , / Wha 's like us ? / Damn few/ All deid ’ ) , the other half could relax , relieved that the English would be continuing to do our thinking for us . |
| 2 | The English will be expecting us . |
| 3 | Briefly in the winter of 1966 – 67 it seemed as if the British might be making some progress towards a cease-fire agreement in conjunction with the USSR . |
| 4 | They make no secret of their anger that the British should be offering military aid to help their violent struggle against the Serbs in Bosnia rather than providing food and blankets . |
| 5 | All this , one may presume further , was supposed to supply the missing will and determination of the indigenous people and just in case the French might be feeling a little faint-hearted at the prospect , the US should immediately reconsider its policy at the first sign that the French were planning to give up or even if they planned to take the problem to the UN . |
| 6 | Office automation is another area where the French may be lagging . |
| 7 | ‘ We think the French may be planning an attack . ’ |
| 8 | The French would be collecting their casualties , and their officers would be staring northwards in search of a non-existent picquet line . |
| 9 | The French would be trying to defeat the Prussians before the British and Dutch could come to their aid , while the Prussians , to be certain of victory , needed Wellington 's troops to march from Quatre Bras and assault the Emperor 's left flank . |
| 10 | But I think the French will be practising hard in the correct boats and on the sea . |
| 11 | Now , two of the questions out of the six will come from developmental and four of the questions of the six will be coming from the topics that I 've covered on most of s it 'll come from one one of the many topics that I 've c or several of the topics that I 've covered . |
| 12 | Yes , it 's pricey , but it is still a fairly exclusive instrument ( though rumour has it that the Japanese will be issuing their ‘ 51 Reissue some time in the future ) . |
| 13 | Suppose we have quarterly figures y 1 , y 2 , y 3 , y 4 , y 5 , Then the first 4-quarter moving average will be corresponding to a time point midway between the second and third quarters , and the second will be corresponding to a time midway between the third and fourth quarters . |
| 14 | Another example is the need for co-ordination between national aid agencies and national export credit agencies , where the latter may be seeking to guarantee finance for , say , a large steel mill which is clearly out of line with national development priorities agreed in different agencies between the donors and recipient governments . |
| 15 | The latter will be handling all the MIPS ' systems business plus things like Microsoft NT . |
| 16 | The former would be a seminar or course , while the latter could be serving as a local councillor . |
| 17 | The priority for the 1990s will be agreeing in advance how to measure the results of a project . |
| 18 | The news is that those Rock Lobster lovers , The B-52's will be bringing their Love Shack to Britain in December but , hey , why wait that long ? |
| 19 | ‘ This fall the homeless will be mobilising into one big movement with thousands marching on Washington . |
| 20 | The best will be representing Britain in the Paralympics in the Summer . |
| 21 | And its design is so far ahead of the others ( Dell , Gateway , Zeos et al ) that the style-conscious should be beating a path to Zenith 's door . |
| 22 | In their convoluted way , the Taiwanese may be thinking of power-sharing with Beijing . |
| 23 | The great majority of the 150-strong audience at the independent Polam Hall School supported Mr Fallon although only a few will be voting for real on April 9 . |
| 24 | Three Westinghouse designed PWRs have been built there since 1974 and a fourth will be running by 1985 . |
| 25 | Every bride-to-be should be heading for a RoC Pure Beauty Centre . |