Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [vb mod] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheeses of this kind used to be known in country-house and home-farm dairy cookery as napkin cheeses . |
| 2 | The development of such schemes ought to be assured since they were commended by the Royal Commission , are greatly valued by NACAB and has the support of the Law Society . |
| 3 | that the price of limited liability ought to be the maximum possible disclosure of information regarding the company 's financial position , |
| 4 | " Two of these beams ought to be replaced , " he said . |
| 5 | However , the ethyl ester of ethanoic acid used to be called ethyl acetate , whereas today it is ethyl ethanoate . |
| 6 | It is advisable , however , not to alter the tuning of any one drum by more than a tone ( since small alterations of tuning can be effected by ‘ feel ’ to a great extent ) , and a dozen or more bars of moderate time ought to be allowed for accurate adjustment of the tuning-screws . |
| 7 | The commonest example of time-lapse stop-motion used to be in biology films , like the old Rank Secrets of Nature by Mary Field or innumerable educational films for schools from companies like Encyclopaedia Britannica Films . |
| 8 | The development of new fonts used to be the business of companies like Linotype and Monotype , which built typesetters with proprietary technology . |
| 9 | My own view of New Age used to be , and to some extent still is , not dissimilar to that of the performance artist Trevor Stewart , who under the alias of Ted Bunny , ritually sets fire to soft toys as a protest ‘ against everything New Age and holistic ’ . |
| 10 | They often have a very small percentage of the population anyway , and er I 'm glad we 've brought this matter up , because I think that is something which needs further investigation , that the the ordinary public and the many little , or the millions of voluntary organisations ought to be encouraged to have a more output in forwarding names . |
| 11 | Partisan nomination of senior judges used to be the rule in Britain but has not really been so since the 1920s . |