Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] to be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly — though the outcome is happier — with Craig 's votes : all of them , the original as well as the transferred , contributed to his surplus , so all of them ought to be taken into account in its transfer . |
| 2 | I 'm young and beautiful , I ought to be kept if anybody . |
| 3 | ‘ But really , I ought to be tucked up in bed now . |
| 4 | ‘ Because I 'm here , Shelley , when I ought to be tucked up at home . |
| 5 | I ought to be used to it , but I 'm not . |
| 6 | The way I see it — if I had saved the world from a lot of boring belly dancers I ought to be congratulated . |
| 7 | I used to be flattered when I was about thirteen . |
| 8 | Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd |
| 9 | When I ask him how he feels he is viewed by the medical profession these days , he replies , ‘ I used to be seen as someone who was totally way-out . |
| 10 | ‘ I used to be called Shorty all through school because I am so small . |
| 11 | Oh yes , I used to be known in , in , in , in my area as the kitchen man , you know , and sort of , people used to talk in the pubs and they 'd say , oh well you know , my missus wants a new kitchen . |
| 12 | The fact I used to be married to Ursula is completely irrelevant . ’ |
| 13 | And my little boy was he was only about three at the time and I used to be used to angry at him and my neighbour used to come in and take him . |
| 14 | One time that used to be further in the dock and I used to be let the erm , the manager know , the pool manager , cos at one time before the war , dockers were erm casual and when the war started , then they thought theirself , right we 're gon na make er dockers more or less permanent , so they all come under the Ipswich Dock Commission then . |
| 15 | C. I used to be told I was good at English . |
| 16 | I 'll do all I can To be freed of the |
| 17 | And , further , the equitable doctrine of Conversion operates , treating as done that which ought to be done , to effect a notional conversion in equity of the land into the proceeds of sale . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I 'll tell ye — nine hundred and ninety-nine of them are glued to the Holy Writ of Economic Theory ; the remaining one , which ought to be fixed on Ireland , is blind . ’ |
| 19 | It enables a voice to be given to interest groups which ought to be heard and , possibly , even exercise influence but which otherwise would lack a sufficient say in the affairs of the nation . |
| 20 | the House of Lords must give leave on the basis that the case is one which ought to be heard by the House . |
| 21 | The defendant will have to explain his default and satisfy the court that he has a defence or counterclaim which ought to be heard . |
| 22 | He said , ‘ It is possible to bypass the censor which normally filters the impulses deriving from our subconscious , and let out things which ought to be kept in . |
| 23 | Chicherin believed not only that serfdom was immoral but also that it was acting as a brake on the economy , that it could not be justified as a bastion against pauperism , and finally — a somewhat unusual argument — that it entailed the improper transference to the gentry of responsibilities which ought to be exercised by the state . |
| 24 | At this juncture I have an experience to relate , perhaps one which ought to be recorded in the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 25 | You have needs which ought to be filled and — ’ |
| 26 | ‘ She said immigration was an issue which ought to be raised because it was going to affect not only employment and social service benefits , but also cause homelessness . |
| 27 | For example , in Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026 Megaw LJ said : … it is appropriate that a covenant , restricting an employee from full freedom of taking other employment when he leaves his existing employment , should be included in the contract of employment where there is a real danger that the employee will in the course of that employment have access to and gain information about matters which could fairly be regarded as trade secrets ; and that applies even though the information may be carried in his head and even though ( perhaps , particularly though ) it may be extremely difficult for the employee himself , being an honest and scrupulous man , to realise that what he is passing on to his new employers is matter which ought to be treated as confidential to his old employers . |
| 28 | In the course of a Second Reading Debate on the contentious Courts and Legal Services Bill in December 1989 , Lord Hailsham spoke scathingly about the fact that the bulk of the proposals arose from within the Government machine , so disregarding ‘ almost every principle of the methodology … which ought to be followed in law reform ’ . |
| 29 | As a result , ‘ governmental assemblies , whose chief activities were of the kind which ought to be limited by law , became able to command whatever they pleased simply by calling their commands ‘ law ’ ' . |
| 30 | There are many factors which indicate that rehabilitation should become a community-based process into which the hospital facilities can feed , but which ought to be based closer to the patient 's home . |