Example sentences of "it [vb mod] to be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ought to be a war between France and a united Germany . |
| 2 | from the notice of the one to whom it ought to be a matter of concern . |
| 3 | ‘ Sounds like it ought to be a pub , ’ people used to say , but it was n't a pub , it was a café . |
| 4 | It ought to be a single , but it 's filled with an old double bed they must have folded in half to squeeze in here , and the internal walls are cheap partitions from where they gutted the Edwardian interior and crammed in as many cubicles as they could . |
| 5 | I think it ought to be a regular feature , a regular feature for everywhere regardless , because it was felt that er during the the May play which proved to be wrong |
| 6 | I would have thought that it is in the government 's interest to promote efficiency , it 's certainly in the government 's interest to maintain the public interest with regard er to fraud or other wrong doing er but it 's something that the government ought to look at and again it seems to me that it ought to be a matter that er could be looked at if there was a proper inquiry . |
| 7 | It 's our credibility as well you know we 're being told quality of service etc etc and I think it ought to be a department meeting we all ought to have the opportunity to put forward what we 're doing and where we 're going . |
| 8 | But do you feel it ought to be a free market erm situation , at least to the extent that anyone can move into any area they wish to provided they could find a place to live ? |
| 9 | The Health and Safety at Work Act has made us rather more concerned about smells and bangs and the dangers these cause , so perhaps life is a little bit less smelly than it was , perhaps a little less exciting , but it ought to be a little longer too . |
| 10 | It used to be a hotel . |
| 11 | It used to be a popular theory that death-feigning animals were somehow self-hypnotised , or that they were thrown into such an acute state of shock by their tormentors that they went into an unconscious , cataleptic state , as though from a fit or seizure . |
| 12 | It used to be a Brooklyn thing , but now there 's kids who use the name and try to make up their own little Lo Life thing . |
| 13 | ‘ It used to be a Brooklyn thing ; that 's how Brooklyn used to stand out . |
| 14 | It used to be a case of whether United would win the title again before Doomsday . |
| 15 | ‘ An awful lot of things are changing which is foreign to Anfield because it used to be a very friendly club . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Really , ’ sighed Mr Punch when he had got it all off his chest , ‘ from the outrages which have been late perpetrated , one might think that one was living now in London as it used to be a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 17 | It used to be a dictatorship — ‘ |
| 18 | it used to be a rom of calcite or or a prism of calcite which will do the job . |
| 19 | It used to be a family sport here , father and son and mother even went with them ! |
| 20 | but that 's no problem for me , it used to be a problem but it is n't now because I 've worked on building up my confidence in other things so I 'm good at quite a lot of things and I always keep re-enforcing that that I 'm good at doing these things . |
| 21 | I 'm just trying to remember that j Oh erm down on Road , here , where the vicarage is , it used to be a pub , because the vicarage were over here at once upon a time . |
| 22 | It used to be a ha'penny on the front row , you see ? |
| 23 | And the surround used to have nice fancy work round you know to make it so it would n't stand on the table cos me mother bought one of those because it used to be a bit dangerous on the table if you knocked it you see and |
| 24 | Well it used to be a clothes shop but what you used to call a pawn shop in them days as well . |
| 25 | And it used to be a most gorgeous smell . |
| 26 | It used to be a tremendous transition from 1 April when you realised you would n't have the garden to yourself until quite suddenly at the end of October when everybody goes . |
| 27 | It used to be a couple of coastguard cottages but has now been converted and sleeps twenty five in twin bedded rooms . |
| 28 | The ACL has a crucial bearing on the stability of the knee and , while it used to be a relatively obscure injury , this ligament is now often affected in cases of serious knee sprains . |
| 29 | It used to be a large wooded area , a rich tropical forest with many species , including gibbons , macaques , tigers , panthers , wild boars , deer , bears and several kinds of pheasants , most of which are now rare in Vietnam . |
| 30 | Peavey 's newest plant looks like a supermarket , that 's because it used to be a supermarket . |