Example sentences of "that [modal v] to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is little doubt in my mind that the future will only go to the large company if that large company is really able to release the energies and the synergies that ought to be a part of the grand design and make more than the sum of the parts . |
| 2 | ‘ That ought to be a blinding glimpse of the obvious , and it should also be obvious that it will only happen through disciplined and focused teaching . |
| 3 | Once you 've got a man on the canvas , that ought to be the end of it . |
| 4 | It is not at all clear that stepping up the competition between schools and colleges , and between the territorially ambitious award bodies , will produce the broad choices in education and training that ought to be an entitlement post-16 , just as much as the national curriculum is before that watershed . |
| 5 | Well anything what was going , anything , change the buckets , on the that used to be every Saturday afternoons , they used to be home . |
| 6 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 7 | " That used to be a fence , which was good because we could let the little boy play out there . |
| 8 | I mean that used to be a college in |
| 9 | My father used to have what they call a lead line that used to be a wire with a all marked with feet and fathoms on and sound and |
| 10 | Well you had a ho used to have a hoop net , a a and that used to be a re like with a hoop . |
| 11 | That was because I mean you take now the , the , the Dredging Company what they call the in their funnel they used to have erm a square and in halves that used to be a blue and a yellow . |
| 12 | Erm , Jane 's twenty six , and before that used to be a hairdresser , as you can tell . |
| 13 | I was only a lad , I was er a messenger boy on the loading deck and I used to have to go down to at Beskett and fetch parts for the planes and er plates , aluminium plates , to be normalized which was a treatment when they put them into the vats and I had to fetch the films as well , from the house that used to be a warehouse for films over in er in by the beacon , great bar ! |
| 14 | Go up Road , and from there turn down Follyhouse Lane the continuation of it and you 'd come right to the Dales and nothing at all from there to West Bromwich , and you could see , if you go over one stile from one field then onto another and then brook that now runs through the Road there , that used to be a little country brook that run across the golf course and there was a little stile over it , a little bridge and a stile , then you go straight up to Dells common and not a house in sight . |
| 15 | The animal chosen for the task was the Soay , a pretty Hebridean sheep that used to be an endangered breed . |
| 16 | That 's right there 's a that used to be an old meadow , that 's all it used to be , course now , they 've got a nice football pitch on it now . |
| 17 | He surveyed the scene of human chaos and the mud patch that used to be the floor , raised his voice above the high-pitched din and yelled ‘ Who told you to come in here , you silly children ? |
| 18 | He could just make out the railway embankment from here , but not the station or the building that used to be the Turk 's Head . |
| 19 | Indeed erm I can say this now er that at that time , unknown to the top management of I was buying large quantities of leather from my old firm it into the town , right past the front door of my old offices which were now the hea the local headquarters of our and selling them , literally , within sight of the building that used to be the place where I operated from on their behalf . |
| 20 | maintenance workshop and be done , that used to be the job for the fitters and blacksmiths . |
| 21 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 22 | ‘ That used to be the case , but these days I 'm a little better organised . |
| 23 | he wer a big fan of Real Madrid tha knows , that s where all white strip came from I wer a ball boy at Elland Road between 1972–74 ( its when they were building the kop to replace the mound a muck that used to be the Gelderd end ) . |
| 24 | Well , apparently that used to be the official advice er and , and we were correct in that but the authorities have now changed their minds and they no longer want us to pour waste chemical down the drains and I gather that the official advice now is that surplus diluted chemical should be poured , and I 'm quoting here , on to more or less level and bare soil in the garden or on to level gravelled paths , avoid disposal in areas around ponds , erm water courses and so forth , dishes and , and what have you and as far as undiluted chemicals are concerned , that 's stuff still in the bottle , the advice there is to talk to your local authority cos they have different regulations in different areas . |