Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb mod] to [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The great thing about pop music in the past is that it used to be about pushing everything . |
| 2 | That 's a factor of something like three hundred per cent than it , than it ought to be in terms of inflation and the County Treasurer 's budget of plus five per cent which is well in excess of two hundred per cent . |
| 3 | If religion is less significant than it used to be in modern societies , it may be that the emotional issues are resolved too , or that they have found other modes of expression , in the arts and entertainments , and in political movements . |
| 4 | Is the Minister aware that there is a feeling among farmers that the Ministry is being less helpful than it used to be in dealing with compensation claims arising from low flying by jets or helicopters ? |
| 5 | And we used to have what they call er a stick and goos it used to I remember we used to have sti what you call stick and goos It was like a great long thing like that and you used to have a stick and it used to be on the floor and you just tap it and and hit it like that and it goes |
| 6 | It looks as if it ought to be with the compound ones but it 's not . |
| 7 | For me , I think the last paragraph in my paper in the Speaker of the week before last [ ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ ] was pretty good ; but it ought to be in verse . |
| 8 | Saddest export a convoy of lorries begins the long journey to China and , inset , the furnace as it used to be at the height of production Picture : VIC CLEVELEY |
| 9 | It is 1800 light-years away , so that we see it today as it used to be in Roman times ; it is white , with an A-type spectrum . |