Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My husband told me I ought to be getting out more , so my friend and I began to go out once a fortnight . |
| 2 | I feel really angry I mean I 'm you might say because of my job that I I ought to be law abiding but I am a law abiding person and i like to think that I would go along with all all the laws because they are they are brought in for the benefit of all . |
| 3 | I 'll get him I 'll get er Jane to give me a few dates and we 'll suit choose a suitable date and we 'll try all of the aspects everything about A L O work about the training , some of these we 've almost got solutions to ourselves we ought to be careful erm , if we can er draw up a proper agenda and discuss with him all of those issues |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , you were always a fool , Neil , always — a fool to think that I would be content to live on nothing with a younger son and a fool to reject me now that I can give you the life which you ought to be living . ’ |
| 5 | That is something of which we ought to be extremely wary . |
| 6 | But there 's no , it seems to me there 's no fundamental change in Government policy and if you are only bringing forward er a change in policy er to this alteration on the basis that er there was some extra P P G guidance we would n't just be dealing with countryside policy here we would be dealing with a policy about telecommunications , wind farms , a whole raft of things er which which we ought to be really dealing with . |
| 7 | If head statements to their governors are the key documents which they ought to be , they deserve all the care which drafting and redrafting can confer on them . |
| 8 | The latter may , for instance , feel that if he is regarded as competent to take on the task by himself he ought to be in charge of his own department and that the manager is intentionally blocking his promotion . |
| 9 | During a recent election broadcast he featured as Sir Denis ‘ Foreman ’ — as in the foreman of a building site , rather than of Granada of which he used to be deputy chairman . |
| 10 | It is hoped that Rambert will be one of the first companies to appear at the Festival Theatre when it opens next year , by which time Christopher Bruce will have taken over as artistic director of the company with which he used to be a leading dancer and choreographer . |
| 11 | ( 11 ) If a licensing board is not elected at the time at which it ought to be elected , or an insufficient number of members is elected for a board , the Secretary of State may by order provide for the holding of an election or elections for supplying such fault or deficiency in election at such times and in such manner as he may think expedient . |
| 12 | The ridge is formed by the algal genus , Porolithon , not by Lithothamnion after which it used to be named . |
| 13 | Yeah , she 's always been alright with me , you know , so I ca n't say about anybody else , I mean she 's already , she 's always been really nice to me , but like them people she goes around , well she used to go around with Lisa and Vicky and all that lot and when she used to go around with them she used to be bitching them off behind their back and going oh you 're my best friend , to their faces . |
| 14 | You you you know she she can to be friends between you and me . |
| 15 | This particularly applies in the case of professionals such as doctors and teachers who we ought to be able to trust . |
| 16 | Mm , that 's right and they 've got all the hassle of the airport , mind you they ought to be able to get a local airport I do n't know who they 're going , going with , who the erm Gavin said , I think Gavin said or somebody said something the , the original company have gone bankrupt |
| 17 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE is who he says he is , because he is who he used to be , because Dudley Moore is to all intents and purposes Dudley Moore , actor , musician , mascot , clown , then there are a few details and descriptions and facts and figures that have to be mentioned . |
| 18 | Roche speaking at the launch of next year 's Leeds Classic , said : ‘ I did everything I could to be good again , but I had problems . |
| 19 | Is n't that funny that reminds me of an old girl I had at Dennis House the one I used to be on i I used to have to get her in bed get her all propped up and then |
| 20 | An important contribution to staying calm is arriving at the interview conscious that you have done everything you can to be thoroughly well prepared . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're doing everything we can to be positive , to look to the future , and to be realistic about the present , ’ said that chirpy fatuity , Neil Kinnock , on the News ‘ 92 phone-in , perhaps the most dementing phone-in of them all ( Radio 1 , daily at 6.30 pm ) . |
| 22 | You do n't want people knocking your door and er you know she up to the time she died we we used to be advised by her . |
| 23 | So the usual thing eventually after five months waiting for payment is to find out the bloody solicitor that told them this you see and inform the the solicitors that er his client has not yet paid us and we it ought to be done and eventually that 's how we get the money . |
| 24 | ‘ But no one tells them they ought to be in this dead-end job and liking it . ’ |
| 25 | FINGS ai n't wot they used to be department : The recent ministerial reshuffle has stripped the rather snobby Home Office of three Old Etonians — Hurd , Renton and Hogg . |
| 26 | If you asked him she ought to be put away for she was plainly off her trolley . |
| 27 | ‘ Whoever persuaded him he ought to be a teacher ? ’ |
| 28 | from the notice of the one to whom it ought to be a matter of concern . |
| 29 | Course , it it used to be the old rough gravel road . |
| 30 | I mean he runs up and down , he it used to be lovely , all the grass . |