Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The schools of Freud and Jung are now much closer together than they used to be : it 's been said that Jungians tend to be more ‘ spiritually ’ orientated . |
| 2 | Medical treatment for hay fever is now much better than it used to be . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the low sea level would have killed existing corals , which do not survive above low tide level as a rule , so that there ought to be discontinuities in the reefs , and , if those who believe in progressively lower interglacial sea levels are correct , the reefs should exhibit a terraced or stepped form . |
| 4 | Well I did we we talked about this , you see Mary Anne , half way through the conversation er Neil went out of the room so that I could to Mary Ann and I said towards the end of my conversation , you know , Mary Ann you 're a very wise person , give me some advice I said , I told her about Neil not wanting no not doing well on the driving , although he can drive she said he does n't want to do it she said do n't hassle him so when he came downstairs I said I 've been talking to Mary Ann and she sends you her love and because , of course , you know , we 've got a grandson , you know she had a son , my |
| 5 | The only problem is that it is messy and somewhat smelly , though much less so than it used to be . |
| 6 | And what he used to do in this , he had a string in the and er he could the string put some some er crumbs in the in the er in a and the birds go in and he used to he used to catch them and we used to kill them and pluck them you know . |
| 7 | ‘ Annie , ’ I say , squatting down like I used to . |
| 8 | Public are n't allowed in like they used to be before the war . |
| 9 | The subject clearly merits serious study , if only because there ought to he money in it . |
| 10 | Whether they did so because they ought to or because they were obliged to , so long as employers treated employees only just well enough , there need be no struggle between them . |
| 11 | We do n't have to worry as much as we used to about its being misused by the party state apparatus for corrupt erm , then of course there 's , them , the , the , the problem of longer term aid , how we help the Soviet Union integrate itself into the world economy . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll spell it out for you , ’ he said as gently as one would to a young child . |
| 13 | I suggested as gently as I could to Jean-Claude that he give Chaillot a ring . |
| 14 | You think the whole blooming world 's all arranged so as everything ought to be your way . |
| 15 | especially when we used to be at factory , because we used to come down Phillip 's yard , did n't |
| 16 | ‘ A gang war would be as damaging to Connelly as it would to us . |
| 17 | We only brought you and the boy as swiftly as we could to Andernesse . ’ |
| 18 | Odette and the bairn still across the street just where they used to be . " |
| 19 | The industry is also getting a lot more respect from outside than it used to , Mr Hirst believes . |
| 20 | One is that people are living longer than they used to , and it is obviously a help if their teeth last longer too . |
| 21 | For example , people are living longer than they used to . |
| 22 | My only qualm is that the final answer ( any shape , but get the size right ) is a bit of an anticlimax and , despite the author 's deftly misdirecting hand , those with a feeling for scale-changes will spot it sooner than they ought to . |
| 23 | I do n't know but he would n't , he would n't have it cooked aboard there , my mother used to cook it for him and I 'd stagger down in an ordinary shopping basket , in two basins there 'd be vegetables in one and his pudding and gravy in the other and I used to take that down for him and he used to come ashore and he used to then go and have it . |
| 24 | And I was downstairs and they used to be up upstairs was the man what cut all the stuff up , do you see ? |
| 25 | ‘ There 's plenty of room up here for me to stay quite comfortably and there ought to be someone on hand to milk the cows , however bad the weather . ’ |
| 26 | I mean , there are , but they 're not real ones , not like they used to be . |
| 27 | The Realist approach , he remarks , gets its name from precisely this point : that it deals with human nature as it is and not as it ought to be , and with historical events as they have occurred , not as they should have occurred . |
| 28 | They read our body language better than we do ourselves , and signal to us just as they would to each other . |
| 29 | ‘ He has gone from being totally subdued and unsure of everyone to playing games , just as we used to . |
| 30 | Just as there ought to be a Radio 2 equivalent of John Maddox 's excellent Scientifically Speaking ( which seems , unaccountably , to have disappeared ) , so such widely relevant debates should find a place on BBC 1 . |