Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [pers pn] [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is er , strongly er , suggesting that we ought to be rather more pro-active than we either are , or than anybody is suggesting that we ought to be in the paper at number seventeen . |
| 2 | He is er , strongly er , suggesting that we ought to be rather more pro-active than we either are , or than anybody is suggesting that we ought to be in the paper at number seventeen . |
| 3 | ( The f act that some people move from this argument to suggesting that they ought to be treated worse does not obscure the fairness of the principle . ) |
| 4 | They need no persuading that it ought to be done . ’ |
| 5 | The Rev. Thomas Tolming said that the Relieving Officer refused aid to deserving poor families who had children , considering that they ought to be put to work at the mine . |
| 6 | He 's saying that we ought to be moving a bit up market an-l selling wines , spirits and cocktails to the 18–25 age group . |
| 7 | Saying that he ought to be able to get through a closed door as easily as an open one , Swift is supposed to have left him standing on the doorstep . |
| 8 | ‘ I kept saying that he ought to be in Shakespeare and not waste his time . ’ |
| 9 | He once remarked that good prose is like a window-pane , meaning that you ought to be able to see through it without seeing it ; and anyone who has ever tried to write prose like that , or to see human creatures in life or fiction like Waugh 's early fictional characters , will know how much clutter of mind and words needs first to be cleared away . |