Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb mod] to [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter may , for instance , feel that if he is regarded as competent to take on the task by himself he ought to be in charge of his own department and that the manager is intentionally blocking his promotion . |
| 2 | But as he got older this , that was in the family though , my sister was like that , Olga , the one what used to be with us . |
| 3 | ‘ But no one tells them they ought to be in this dead-end job and liking it . ’ |
| 4 | FINS ai n't what they used to be for Doug Laughton and Graeme Souness |
| 5 | He did not concern himself with the business of creating such a society , only with the description of what it ought to be like : the actual propositions in the book are not to be taken literally , in other words , since he was offering only the ideal model of a better civilization . |
| 6 | Which is what it used to be of course is n't it ? |
| 7 | Of course that is just what it used to be for before the invasion of the television and the mobile office . |
| 8 | no listen right you should copy these cos when you 're like older you 're gon na want to erm listen to what you used to say and like what it used to be like and you 've got |
| 9 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |