Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything but to raise her eyes and see him there where she ought to be . |
| 2 | ‘ Where you ought to be , Me1li . |
| 3 | The centre is One , the outer fringe is Six ; zones where there used to be neighbourhoods . |
| 4 | Where there used to be a great big island . |
| 5 | Only in Mile End , where there used to be a fair crop of breweries , could you find a good pub with a good pint of beer . |
| 6 | It was in their interests to make work for the dental profession and sell vitamin C , not to let it get about that simply by keeping their hands where they ought to be young people could have healthy teeth and gums for life . |
| 7 | This enabled him to look forward with confidence to continued improvements which would put the British plants back at the top of the performance league , where they used to be , and where they belonged . |
| 8 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 9 | Odette and the bairn still across the street just where they used to be . " |
| 10 | Where they used to be frozen and then you started another one wherever you went next time . |
| 11 | And there was a placement first floor , second floor , and where they used to be starting to live beautiful house ! |
| 12 | The draft Structure Plan Review will assess the requirement for new housing land and decide , in general terms , where it ought to be located . |
| 13 | There 's a lovely great open space , where it used to be all wood , which if you had plenty of money and could have enough gardeners could be made very exciting . ’ |
| 14 | We have to keep a proper balance or we will continue to see destruction in the countryside that we have seen in some areas where there is too much access and where what used to be a path has become as wide as the M1 . |
| 15 | PAMELA : [ aside ] I have a little tincture of jealousy too , which has made me more uneasy than I ought to be , particularly in the case of Miss Sally Godfrey and my fears of what might happen when we reach London . |
| 16 | She 's obviously a slag , no better than she ought to be . ’ |
| 17 | She was more relaxed than she used to be but still , in Dexter 's view , judged herself too harshly . |
| 18 | But Anya 's a better judge of character than she used to be , back in the old homeland . |
| 19 | She was more tired than she used to be , that was all . |
| 20 | 49% of you are more afraid of driving alone in the dark than you used to be . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're much more sensible than you used to be , but your mum ca n't see it , and my mum still thinks I 'm three and a half . ’ |
| 22 | I do n't think Gemma eats as well as these two do , she 's ever so finicky worse than you used to be . |
| 23 | ‘ And so you ought to be , ’ Narcissus continued . |
| 24 | Do n't say I 'll give you a bit of my advice on a lead , because er you have n't had the call so you ought to be on your best level . |
| 25 | Even more concerned than we ought to be |
| 26 | We 're more conscious of these things than we used to be , before . |
| 27 | Though we feel ourselves to be much more comfortable now than we used to be , there has been very little increase in domestic fuel demand over fifty years or more . |
| 28 | ‘ Hmmnn , more bruising than there ought to be . |
| 29 | The magic solution has lost its power — although if you want another performance just re-heat and re-cool the beaker … to be supersaturated means to have more dissolved than there ought to be … the cold supersaturated solution almost literally did not know what to do . |
| 30 | This means that at a time of crisis , such as death , there are fewer people to turn to than there used to be when it was the norm to live much nearer to kinfolk . |