Example sentences of "of [pron] [vb mod] [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 Similarly — though the outcome is happier — with Craig 's votes : all of them , the original as well as the transferred , contributed to his surplus , so all of them ought to be taken into account in its transfer .
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3 Found out one , one of them used to be a staff trainer .
4 And the second point I make is that if there are fools who are doing it wrongly then some of you ought to be doing it correctly .
5 But the end of something ought to be the start of something else , and I ca n't yet feel what 's meant to be beginning .
6 That 's why her dragons are rather boring — while yours , ’ said the voice of Greicha , ‘ is almost as good as some of mine used to be .
7 Oh it 's a technique , a relation of ours used to be a car sprayer
8 We found that practices were very diverse , that people had different impressions , not only of what ought to be done , but what was in fact being done .
9 If there is a written version of what ought to be being done this is a useful basic document .
10 Then , of course , any critical function which natural law might be supposed to have in constraining the content of positive law is dissolved and Finnis 's natural law with a variable and changing content is revealed as serving the purely ideological function of justification and not an epistemological function in respect of what ought to be .
11 1988 , etc. ) , there was a tendency to acquiesce in this conventional wisdom and all that went with it : the reduction of what ought to be a complex and multi-faceted debate to the simple adversarialism of ‘ formal ’ versus ‘ informal ’ , ‘ didactic ’ versus ‘ exploratory ’ , teacher as ‘ instructor ’ versus teacher as ‘ facilitator ’ , rote learning versus ‘ discovery ’ , ‘ subjects ’ versus ‘ integration ’ , class teaching versus group work , ‘ traditional ’ versus ‘ progressive ’ , ‘ bad practice ’ versus ‘ good ’ .
12 Theresa Billington Greig , who broke away from the Pankhursts ' suffragette organisation , the Women 's Social and Political Union , over the issue of militant action , was virtually alone in criticising suffragists and suffragettes who regarded the home ‘ as an exemplar of what ought to be in the political world ’ .
13 The process has evolved over the decade with the linking up of what used to be short runs into long , cross-country routes .
14 Llanelli 's 14-12 win was also a reminder of what used to be .
15 still blessed with a scent of what used to be called the counter-culture , they are also the most responsive to music generated from outside the mainstream corporate structure .
16 Cockney Rebel had it a bit , and it was the time of the film Cabaret , The Rocky Horror Show and Biba 's nightclub on the roof of what used to be Derry and Toms Every other phrase in the newspapers seemed to be ‘ Iounge lizard ’ .
17 Their ritualled life is interrupted only by Saxon 's unclear memories of what used to be , along with the movement of the grotesque Brogan in the ‘ upper world ’ .
18 THE Cubans have pulled out of what used to be the People 's Republic of the Congo , and is now just the Congo Republic .
19 Looking at each other , wordlessly grappling , two people from the same small segment of the country had unknowingly provoked in each other ill-formed shapes of what used to be home , and as yet unrecognized images of what used to be themselves .
20 Looking at each other , wordlessly grappling , two people from the same small segment of the country had unknowingly provoked in each other ill-formed shapes of what used to be home , and as yet unrecognized images of what used to be themselves .
21 On a piece of rocky coastline and out of what used to be a quaint old fishing village , has sprung one of the liveliest resorts in Corfu .
22 There was still an ingrained suspicion of what used to be called ‘ combinations ’ .
23 In March 1916 the Midland League programme was completed , and to fill the remaining weeks of what used to be the normal season a subsidiary tournament involving six clubs was organized , with Leeds City in the Northern Group of the Midland League .
24 OK , the radical Maoist lesbian communes of what used to be Berkeley University are rather less keen on topless sunbathing than the nubiles of Saint Tropez .
25 Unsurprisingly , none of them had heard of Giles Williams , which was clearly a false name , and Kelly 's description of his telephone manner — a slurred , gin-sodden voice with a wheedling insincere tone to it — covered half of what used to be known as Fleet Street .
26 All are comprehensible as symptoms of social disorientation , of the fraying , and sometimes the snapping , of the threads of what used to be the network that bound people together in society .
27 But it 's too late now ; there , as in most parts of what used to be the Eastern bloc , telecommunications are being upgraded post-haste .
28 So I 'm put into the hands of what used to be called ‘ Wardrobe ’ but now has the grander title of ‘ Costume Designers ’ , who are keen for me to join the twentieth century sartorially , which would involve climbing into one of those colossal suits .
29 Audio-visual materials , cassettes and videotapes , and access to computer based learning will simplify a lot of what used to be dull and repetitive work .
30 The continued squeeze on defence procurement , combined with a demand for ever-more complex weaponry , has encouraged NATO to think the once-unthinkable : a code of practice for defence companies that should wring better value for money out of what used to be one of the capitalist world 's most protected and pampered industries .
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