Example sentences of "it [modal v] [prep] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sports Council will await Universiade GB 's concurrence with the deal before nominating their man , but it ought to be one of their members with business acumen — which means either David Simon of BP , who is most unlikely to have the time , Raymond Michel , formerly with a distillery , or Norman Jacobs , a partner in one of Britain 's largest firms of solicitors . |
| 2 | It ought to be possible for the teacher at this stage to spot skill weaknesses , and to introduce activities designed to remedy them — activities of which the children can see the point . |
| 3 | it ought to be possible for partners to disagree on specifics while remaining allied in general terms and often working together in many fields . |
| 4 | My Lords , I , I do realise and I have to be satisfied with that erm and I shall do my best , but if I could just make my absolutely clear , simple proposition that I was seeking to perform is that if you are seeking to amend the law i i it ought to be possible for those who are seeking to understand the Government 's intentions to find out relatively easily what the law is and I suggest it 's very far from easy and even if you get to it , it 's not at all easy to understand . |
| 5 | It is in fact a movement : a coming together of teachers whose common conviction it is that teaching up to now has been conducted in far too random and amateurish a fashion , based at best on a kind of inspired guesswork , and that it ought to be possible by putting our minds to it , and applying the sort of thinking that is successful in other fields , to do a better job than before . |
| 6 | Since it can not be accountable to national Parliaments , it ought to be accountable to the European Parliament . |
| 7 | Well yeah , cos it ought to be tight on her , across . |
| 8 | So , it ought to be clear by the end of this instalment that you should devote some thought to cabling , ideally before the network goes in . |
| 9 | It must be , it must of been tragic for her really |
| 10 | All the parishes used to be different and it used to be possible at one time to know approximately where in Orkney somebody came from . |
| 11 | It used to be all in that little log book on the wall . |
| 12 | It used to be amazing at the end of the week to be paid , to have money in your hand for the work you had done . |
| 13 | Oh oh yes yes the union did erm get that er sorted out you know , and er and then when the buses began to run it made it easier for those worked in Willenhall and er and it just be about threepence of fourpence in our money go there then , but erm and then the hours were altered you see , eight o'clock and finish at six o'clock and er and then it used to be seven to seven you see . |
| 14 | It used to be acceptable in the same way as incest . |
| 15 | It used to be common for agreements for the supply of crude oil to do the same , but these have gone out of fashion in recent years with the volatility of oil prices : they may reappear if the oil price settles down . |
| 16 | Well it would of been easier for a woman to answer would n't it ? |
| 17 | Mm , just got to go and sort them out , hang on I 'm coming up , I do n't know why you did n't go in the downstairs toilet , it would of been easier for me then would n't it ? |
| 18 | It would of been alright on there |