Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] be [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used to be sent to London and various places ; and when we 'd done all that we got four shillings a hundred for them . |
| 2 | In other words , they 're taking a lot of the task that used to be given to manufacturers away from them and so manufacturers today are not by and large so concerned with manufacturing brands which are their own and will sit on retailers ' shelves as with providing a product for a retailer who wants to construct his own brand . |
| 3 | The fact I used to be married to Ursula is completely irrelevant . ’ |
| 4 | This is in fact a correct use of the subjunctive mood , which used to be known to writers and sub-editors , and even to publishers and booksellers . |
| 5 | I think that ought to be said to staff . |
| 6 | They agreed that assistance provided by the " Group of 24 " industrialized countries ( from which only Poland and Hungary currently benefited — see pp. 36802 ; 36961 ) , ought to be extended to Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , East Germany , Romania , and Yugoslavia . |
| 7 | In People v. Rosario ( 1961 ) 213 N.Y.S. 2d 448 four members of the Court of Appeals of New York , adopting the view of the United States Supreme Court in Jencks v. United States ( 1957 ) 353 U.S. 657 , ruled that the entire previous statements of prosecution witnesses ought to be shown to defence counsel after the direct examination with a view to his cross-examining those witnesses and attacking their credibility , saying that counsel were best able to decide what use could be made of the statements , whereas three members of the court took a narrower view and , following the line of authority which had hitherto prevailed in New York , held that defence counsel could examine and use only those portions of a statement which , according to the view of the trial judge , contained variances from a witness 's evidence . |
| 8 | Oestreicher in respect of the ‘ serious arguments which are worth of consideration … which have been and ought to be addressed to Parliament ’ . |
| 9 | There is the further consideration that if after a Jury has deliberately decided that a person ought to be put to death , the Home Secretary should nevertheless find it his duty to recommend clemency , there would appear to be a conflict between the Crown and the Jury . |
| 10 | The motion was ‘ That devolution is dead and ought to be laid to rest ’ . |