Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [modal v] to be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps we ought to be a little more circumspect . |
| 2 | Perhaps there ought to be a law like that , but there is n't at the moment . |
| 3 | Perhaps there ought to be an intelligence extradition agreement that all defectors are immediately put on the first aircraft back home . |
| 4 | So it used to be a pond last century or |
| 5 | Not what used to be a restaurant ? |
| 6 | Collectively they used to be a formidable bunch . |
| 7 | Well , it turned out he used to be a ‘ pretty successful writer ’ , but then he found he was just getting into ‘ things that were too weird . ’ |
| 8 | And er so I said she dissolved into fits of laughter so after that she explained it by saying well I used to be a trainer and I know how I got to avoid the stock phrases . |
| 9 | Well there used to be a dressing rooms on erm on Road there . |
| 10 | Well there used to be a lot of shops there . |
| 11 | Well there used to be a house there . |
| 12 | Did n't there used to be a cottage on that roadside where them big tanks is , did n't there used to be some cottages . |
| 13 | Merrill 's dark eyebrows lifted a little ; surely there ought to be a reception desk , and someone to attend to visitors ? |
| 14 | Well it used to be a clothes shop but what you used to call a pawn shop in them days as well . |
| 15 | Well it used to be a coaching inn did n't it ? |
| 16 | Well and then there used to be a stripper it 's a a long thing like that and there and er you 'd put it on . |
| 17 | There was Pat , he swept chimleys , er and then there used to be an old fellow come , he used to mend , mend dishes you ken , what you call a china faker . |
| 18 | Yes it did it run down to the river and we used to have to write to get a permit to camp on there for the week but then there used to be an old , the old foreman of he used to come round every Saturday night , have you got your permit ? |
| 19 | from there and now course they got shipped out and then they used to be a ship as well , used to take it to sea called the |
| 20 | He used to be a a driver , a driver , and then he used to be a driving supervisor and now he 's in like , in traffic now . |
| 21 | When I was a child there was a damp place in the long meadow where there used to be a lovely yellow flower we call butterballs , and children would bring them for the teacher . |
| 22 | And there used to be a a little croft croft there of long ago , and it 's er it 's all planted now with trees all round about it but I suppose they could still see where they used to be A black smith had stayed there . |
| 23 | I 'm keen to see a real dialogue with our members , er , how we achieve that I do n't know , we 've got the most enormous diversity of membership as I mentioned in my speech , but the more that we can get a a good dialogue going , and certainly I used to be a member of Health and erm , Disability Group , and remember that it was a very useful meeting point , er , as well as a good arena for developing policy initiatives . |