Example sentences of "[verb] that it [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The imagination is the distinguishing characteristic of man as a progressive being ; and I repeat that it ought to be carefully guided and strengthened as the indispensable means and instrument of continued amelioration and refinement . ’ |
| 2 | Lots of people want it to , er suggest that it ought to be holiday but |
| 3 | Erm I think in the first instance , an assessment needs to be done of all the la of the landscape quality and I would suggest that it ought to be directed away from from areas of high landscape quality , towards areas of a lower landscape quality . |
| 4 | They need no persuading that it ought to be done . ’ |
| 5 | I think that it is n't a general skill it at needs to be commented on , I think that it needs to commented on I think that it ought to be commented on in the comment box . |
| 6 | I think that it ought to be self-evident , erm if we 've done our programme in a way which er , is clear or if we 've presented it in a clear fashion , then I think sequence and clashes er and safety , to a large extent , become self-evident . |
| 7 | A village which started looking into its own history has discovered that it used to be somewhere else . |
| 8 | So I just , it used to be , you see that it used to be W G and Sons . |