Example sentences of "and the [noun] [vb mod] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bishop , you and Hrolf and the physicians ought to be busy . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is because Sri Lanka 's politicians have , in the past , been people of some stature , and the army used to be kept small . |
| 3 | The information system aims to support decision-making and the decisions ought to be directed towards achieving the goals of the organisation . |
| 4 | Lord Reid agreed that " corrupt is a strong word and the jury ought to be reminded of that … |
| 5 | But with the sheep used to hang them whole in the shop like , like these are now , yeah and the pigs used to be chopped down . |
| 6 | Windsfield and along that way to get to Bloxwich is n't it , and of course it used to , as I say it was an event , and the kids used to , we used to and then the lamplighter used to come round , pushing his pole , no electric lamps then , he used to come round . |
| 7 | No I was alone , yeah and the horse used to ge used to stay . |
| 8 | What we were trying to say is there is actually a place and my Right Honourable Friend thinks that there is and indeed so do I , for people to contribute to the problem of policing in their locality who have n't necessarily for one reason or another and my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw said , decided not to erm be on the police authority , maybe they have n't had time , maybe there has n't been their , their particular but nevertheless they do know and they do care about their locality and they have got a er er a contribution to make and we think that that would actually improve the local the police authorities , provided that they are not in an overwhelming position and that is the reason why we 've suggested that eight erm t er , er , er o of a police authority of sixteen , eight should be councillors in the majority , five should be independents and three should be er er er magistrates and My Lords and then of course the complaint was ah , but then some people may not be properly represented and the number ought to be larger . |
| 9 | This excellent water is surrounded by mature woodlands and the estate used to be owned by the brewing family of Usher . |
| 10 | Communication between the designer and the producer used to be done almost entirely by traditional engineering drawings but there is now a tendency to use sketches , schematic drawings , photographs and models including computer-based models , for example complicated shapes in three dimensions are difficult to represent as rectangular projections and are not easily interpreted . |