Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [modal v] [prep] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll show you the place where the convent used to be in the Middle Ages . ’ |
| 2 | It shows how many items of the product ought to be on the shelf ; how many are still in the stock room ; the minimum number that the store is supposed to be carrying ; whether fresh ones have been ordered if stocks are too low ; what the current price is ; and whether that price is the Kmart standard , or has been lowered to beat local competitors . |
| 3 | Aunt Margaret wrote on it now : ‘ The baby ought to be in bed . ’ |
| 4 | It would suggest that when faced with a choice between a case which rests on constitutional theories about limited government derived from a ‘ higher law ’ which controlled what government could legitimately do , and a case which rested on actual practices of government bolstered by actual law , the jury preferred the theory of what the constitution ought to be to the practice of what it is . |
| 5 | It is both ‘ the response of ordinary people to trends in government practices which seem to them to be , in perhaps indefinable ways , wrong ’ and a preference for ‘ the theory of what the constitution ought to be to the practice of what it is ’ . |
| 6 | Much of computer-based activity , perhaps the bulk of it , consists of making the powerful new technology behave as closely as possible to the way the world used to be before the computer age . |
| 7 | And er get and then strip this er at the side , cos a girl used to be at the front to strip all this here lace of these here pins . |
| 8 | They used to These they used to be a round used to be round you know and not very used to hit them as you hit them with a stick you see , they used to wheel wheel round and round . |
| 9 | The thing was gleaming red , bigger than a tractor ought to be in her opinion , with bigger front wheels than expected , and smaller back . |
| 10 | In other words they give an account of what a professional ought to be like , or advocate a particular process for increasing professionality . |