Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pron] [vb mod] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE name of the current month shows in its Latin origins that it used to be the 10th month of the year , not the 12th . |
| 2 | I 'm old , I know I 'm old and I ca n't do all the things that I used to be able to do . |
| 3 | The erm but most of us are when yo , when you first join something you can always see the things that you ought to be able to change . |
| 4 | I have stopped telling customers that it used to be ripened under piles of manure , as it seemed to stop them from buying it . |
| 5 | This , I believe , is against the law , but it is a law that deserves to be broken , for it is the puritanical nonsense of excluding children — and therefore to some extent , women — from pubs that has turned these places into mere boozing-shops instead of the family gathering-places that they ought to be . ’ |
| 6 | Ramsey entered this conference with a reputation outside England as well as inside it ; and the proceedings of the conference confirmed the opinion of a lot of bishops that he ought to be their next leader . |
| 7 | THE husband of a heavily-pregnant woman found hanging in a garage told one of her friends that he used to be a backing guitarist for Eric Clapton , a court heard yesterday . |
| 8 | THOUGH much smaller in numbers that it used to be , Courtaulds Italia has managed to weld together a team which blends experience with freshness . |
| 9 | Sennett was the initial genius who taught the others that anything ought to be tried that produced laughter and that the ultimate test was whether any movie actually worked for audiences . |
| 10 | Where there was reluctance — as in Britain — middle-class pressure had to be brought to bear in order to convince the politicians that something ought to be done . |
| 11 | The military regime in Iraq laid claim to Kuwait on the grounds that it used to be part of the Ottoman province of Basra . |
| 12 | yes , I suppose actually really you see it 's like the network evenings that there used to be in that ghastly little pub at the West End |