Example sentences of "[unc] [pron] [modal v] to [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 But it was agreed was it not that er there ought to be coupled with that , it seems appropriate when you 're talking about water supplies .
2 I suppose to be technical it ought to be the er it ought to be referred to as the Franco- German war .
3 and th we used to be visited by some of their people
4 Apart from this , Elstir 's insistence on painting what his senses register , not what his mind believes , is connected with two features in À la recherche which ought to be mentioned I think however briefly .
5 And also got erm erm what used to be called seventy seven .
6 Crane driver , television tubes , light bulbs , do you know these bulbs er , they used to come er , we used t they used to be made here , they used to be sent over to Holland and the brass bit used to be put in and the element inside and they used to go over there in cardboard boxes all loose and there used to be hundreds of them broken , they did n't , they did n't worry about it , as long as they , they reckon that as long as they get twenty five percent a hold they were satisfied and they were just in ordinary boxes , no paper in or nothing , just all loose .
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