Example sentences of "it [vb mod] to be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an historian I know how valuable a commodity — and I mean valuable in terms of hard cash — it ought to be in these days when the whole of life , our own present as well as the past , seems to reach us pre-packaged in the form of interviews and telly-probe . |
| 2 | But that 's his ‘ sic ’ , not mine — I deny all responsibility — so by rights it ought to be in square brackets instead . |
| 3 | It used to be in all the fields then , and he used to take all the kids gathering coltsfoot . |
| 4 | If religion is less significant than it used to be in modern societies , it may be that the emotional issues are resolved too , or that they have found other modes of expression , in the arts and entertainments , and in political movements . |
| 5 | It is 1800 light-years away , so that we see it today as it used to be in Roman times ; it is white , with an A-type spectrum . |
| 6 | In fact , it used to be in TEN other places . |
| 7 | ‘ It used to be like that , but times have changed , ’ Harry argued . |