Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [subord] [pron] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours . |
| 2 | The subject clearly merits serious study , if only because there ought to he money in it . |
| 3 | The Realist approach , he remarks , gets its name from precisely this point : that it deals with human nature as it is and not as it ought to be , and with historical events as they have occurred , not as they should have occurred . |
| 4 | He 'd do the parties now and then as he used to . |
| 5 | He escaped as soon as he could to the company of her brothers . |
| 6 | Those limits have created the need to ration what is available , as well as what ought to be developed . |
| 7 | The organization and mobilization of the electorate in the United States to turn out to vote and to maximize the party 's chances of success is probably not carried out as well as it used to be , as is evidenced by the decline in turnout since the 1960s ( see table 26.2 ) . |