Example sentences of "[adv] it [modal v] to be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it ought to be said that the world today , in this year nineteen ninety two , is a different place from what it was a hundred years ago . |
| 2 | Well it used to be carried on the back and . |
| 3 | According to Gandhi , if it is at all possible for man to describe this power then it ought to be called Truth ( Satya ) , which is a derivative of Sat , which literally means that which is or exists . |
| 4 | The final determination of the ley theory 's status is obviously desirable ; if it is a mare 's nest in Britain , unlike in South America , then it ought to be despatched as quickly as possible . |
| 5 | However , if some people in the game are getting money then it ought to be shared out . |
| 6 | The increase in the number of prosecutions did not result , however , in a feeling of sympathy for homosexuals , but rather the feeling , as John Wolfenden expressed it , that ‘ nobody had any idea how much of it there was … but there was an impression that it was increasing ; and there was a feeling that if it was then it ought to be curbed ’ . |
| 7 | But it is hard to resist this plan put before me and indeed it ought to be tried since I have no other resource . |