Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun] [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the provision of day beds ought to be the responsibility of the trusts , will the Secretary of State take time today to condemn Labour 's vicious attacks on those individuals who have been selected to help run the trusts ? |
| 2 | The view expressed here is that the punishment of those found guilty of insider dealing ought to be sufficient to act as a general deterrent for others who have access to inside information , so as to further reduce the incentive to indulge in the practice of insider dealing . |
| 3 | In People v. Rosario ( 1961 ) 213 N.Y.S. 2d 448 four members of the Court of Appeals of New York , adopting the view of the United States Supreme Court in Jencks v. United States ( 1957 ) 353 U.S. 657 , ruled that the entire previous statements of prosecution witnesses ought to be shown to defence counsel after the direct examination with a view to his cross-examining those witnesses and attacking their credibility , saying that counsel were best able to decide what use could be made of the statements , whereas three members of the court took a narrower view and , following the line of authority which had hitherto prevailed in New York , held that defence counsel could examine and use only those portions of a statement which , according to the view of the trial judge , contained variances from a witness 's evidence . |
| 4 | I have constructed a kitchen out of flatpacks with only one minor nervous breakdown and one remarkable shouting match involving my wife , her mother , myself and how a length of pine beading ought to be attached to several wall cupboards . |
| 5 | This kind of map analysis used to be done manually ( before the advent of practical GIS ) by overlaying transparent map sheets , establishing the required spatial relationships and drawing the new map on a clean top sheet with felt pens ( McHarg 1969 ) . |
| 6 | Even the much vaunted Mick Jones collaboration sounds like Mick Jones used to be in The Alarm not The Clash . |
| 7 | There 's a tendency to take someone like Lowe and put him with no-talent good-lookers like Robert Taylor used to be , or Tyrone Power . ’ |
| 8 | In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days . |
| 9 | Incidentally , though Walker is held to be still more than a touch rusty after so long away from rugby — inclined , for instance , to carry the ball under the wrong arm — the rapidity with which he has come into cap contention ought to be food for thought for our own Jamie Henderson . |
| 10 | Good Friday in East Anglia used to be the traditional day for planting potatoes . |
| 11 | Most of those who come to church expect and want to be able to sing , and the Commission believes that the music in parish churches ought to be substantially congregational . |
| 12 | In Italy tax-collection used to be a commercial business . |
| 13 | In Italy money used to be paid for crickets so that they could be released in the garden to add their harmony and endless cheerfulness to it . |
| 14 | Arbitration clauses in employment contracts used to be rare . |
| 15 | Although in principle agriculture ought to be a net producer of energy , converting the sun 's energy into the calorific value of food , modern agriculture is actually a net consumer . |
| 16 | Cos he used to Alan Bleasdale used to be Peter Reed 's teacher at school and the |
| 17 | Produced to accompany his Channel 4 television series , Paul 's work reveals a wealth of obscure facts — such as Christmas pudding used to be served as a liquid broth , and turkeys are immensely fond of stinging nettles . |