Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as disturbingly , the draft guidance goes on to suggest that in order to allow future generations to have some reserves after 2011 , some of these potentially very damaging permissions should to be held in reserve to satisfy the principle of sustainable development ! |
| 2 | Just as disturbingly , the draft guidance goes on to suggest that in order to allow future generations to have some reserves after 2011 , some of these potentially very damaging permissions should to be held in reserve to satisfy the principle of sustainable development ! |
| 3 | ISC used to be run as a state-within-a-state by James Guerin , its founder , until his forced departure from the group in May . |
| 4 | There are many large quintas in Monte as it used to be favoured by the rich who moved up to their summer houses when it became too hot and humid in Funchal . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | They used to be made at Mr King 's in Station Street . |
| 7 | Cotton paper used to be made with cotton rags but is now made from cotton linters , which refers to the second harvest from the cotton plant . |
| 8 | What objects do you know which are now made of plastic but which used to be made from wood or steel ? |
| 9 | Well , in the old days , those used to be made from twigs , and even longer ago people used to use brooms like that to sweep the streets and even to sweep their houses . |
| 10 | Cheesecakes used to be made in quantity for the feast . |
| 11 | Mr. Taylor : As many of the laws that used to be made in the House of Commons are now made by the Council of Ministers , and as we can discuss its decisions for only one and a half hours after 10 o'clock at night , does the Lord President agree that this makes nonsense of democracy and deprives the public of the knowledge of what is going on ? |
| 12 | They used to be made in the shape of Christ 's tombstone , and years ago , all bread baked on Good Friday was marked with a cross as a symbol of good luck . |
| 13 | She says that the canons used to be filled with nails , nuts and bolts etc and they could cut a man in half . |
| 14 | I have stopped telling customers that it used to be ripened under piles of manure , as it seemed to stop them from buying it . |
| 15 | Thus Science syllabuses may include material formerly taught under the separate headings of General Science , Nature Study , Rural Science and Health Education ; Social Studies syllabuses incorporate what used to be taught under History , Geography and Civics . |
| 16 | Diet used to be taught by personal interview and printed diet sheet . |
| 17 | Family planners used to be condemned as lackeys of US imperialism who wanted to suppress the dark threatening hordes of the Third World poor . |
| 18 | Multimedia used to be defined as a fancy slide show that you sat and watched . |
| 19 | I do n't think animals should be ta , used to be tested for cosmetics |
| 20 | The workers , who used to be employed by British Rail Maintenance , have also deposited redundancy payments , running into six figures , with the Royal Bank . |
| 21 | Marta used to be harassed by the police . |
| 22 | Produced to accompany his Channel 4 television series , Paul 's work reveals a wealth of obscure facts — such as Christmas pudding used to be served as a liquid broth , and turkeys are immensely fond of stinging nettles . |
| 23 | They used to be sent to London and various places ; and when we 'd done all that we got four shillings a hundred for them . |
| 24 | And the children 's used to be tied behind their back and them what er eat this er cross bun first , used to get a prize . |
| 25 | And er he was rubbing the coal off his back and was stripped there , we used to be stripped to the waist then . |
| 26 | Such developments would necessarily affect both the structure of arts-based courses , but more significantly in the context of this article , would require the methods of assessment used to be tailored to the short term aims of each module . |
| 27 | and th we used to be visited by some of their people |
| 28 | I always see him riding about up the Steven there he 's always up there I know when I used to work for it was always Steve who used to be riding to this farm , riding to that farm , checking on this , checking on that and taking the wages round that sort of thing . |
| 29 | The finest rice in all China used to be grown in fields around the village of Shatin , in Hong Kong 's New Territories . |
| 30 | His book undoubtedly fills a need ; it may , besides , make you wonder whether we have most of us come all that far since the days of Babbage , the true father of the computer , who recorded in his memoirs that he often used to be asked by the mandarins of the English establishment , when they came to view his difference engine : ‘ Pray , Mr Babbage , if you put into the machine wrong figures , will the right answers come out ? ’ |