Example sentences of "it [modal v] [prep] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ought to be the easiest thing in the world . ’ |
| 2 | The road continued past the cottages so there must be something down there and it ought to be the common itself . |
| 3 | I suppose to be technical it ought to be the er it ought to be referred to as the Franco- German war . |
| 4 | When opened it played the chorus of ‘ Spread a Little Happiness ’ , although the book stipulated it ought to be the ‘ Wedding March ’ . |
| 5 | I was stiff and he was supple , and it ought to be the other way round . |
| 6 | I do n't know whether it ought to be the Foreign Office , the Home Office or the Ministry of Defence . ’ |
| 7 | Oh , dear he 's been dead , ten it must of been the ten , this is eighty two , seventy two , about sixty five I should think about sixty five |
| 8 | I am Mrs who 's sort of the secretary and books , does the booking for the hall , he could n't get that , anyway it occurred to me afterwards it must of been the grandmother of that girl that bought the erm , cos he kept on talking a Michelle and that 's the girl that bought our suite and I reckon it 's her child 's birthday party , she said erm you know my , you know my son-in-law , I said do I ? |
| 9 | It was better than the other one , it might of been the seats but I do n't think so because I mean there was so much in this one |
| 10 | It used to be the case that contestants who were struck lightly in the face could exaggerate injury in order to have the opponent 's score disallowed . |
| 11 | It used to be the normal practice to adapt buildings for different purposes over their lives . |
| 12 | IT USED to be the east Prussian city of Königsberg , where the philosopher Immanuel Kant worked and died . |
| 13 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
| 14 | It is a large breed and , known as the Big Red , it used to be the biggest breed in Britain . |
| 15 | It used to be the girls ’ parade . |
| 16 | It used to be the case that one had to find a property that one wanted to buy first and then apply for a mortgage , but some organisations will now provide a mortgage guarantee document , that is to say an assurance of the amount of money they will lend you , before you start looking for a property . |
| 17 | It used to be the custom that the issue of the writ should be moved by chief whip of the party in the House of Commons a member of which had held the seat prior to its vacation , but this practice was occasionally the subject of abuse by the moving party being reluctant , by reason of its unpopularity in the country and consequent fear of being humiliated in a poll , Constituents in one instance were left unrepresented for over nine months . |
| 18 | THE name of the current month shows in its Latin origins that it used to be the 10th month of the year , not the 12th . |
| 19 | It used to be the case that games written for an 8086 processor were unplayable on a 286 machine , so developers included special code in their programs which would slow the game down to make sure that , as far as possible , the game played at the same speed on every class of machine . |
| 20 | It used to be the law that orders for certiorari and prohibition were available only against decision-makers who had a duty to act judicially . |
| 21 | Well not very much unless you made it yourself , you know , if you were , the factories used to have their own erm dances and the Embers , it used to be the Embers then , that 's the place in the Stow , they had danci , yes , they had dancing there and they put on competitions for different things and my son , with lots of others er , did erm a rock and roll thing which needed thirty six hours . |
| 22 | Or it used to be the George . |
| 23 | Well it used to be the Victoria Station in them days then before it come Victoria Centre . |
| 24 | For example , it used to be the time when farmers asked for their crops to be blessed for the coming year . |
| 25 | It used to be the case that a successful president would choose some of his Cabinet members from his party 's ranks in Congress ; this still happens , but relatively infrequently . |
| 26 | Well it used to be the Stenness Loch was very good till they built the barriers . |
| 27 | It used to be the twenty first of October . |
| 28 | It used to be the basis of the whole heavy organic chemical industry , and might be again . |
| 29 | You think that 's especially true and like say Aberdeen if you go in a shop there and and , at least it used to be the case , and asked for something you be thought you were speaking fine but they would just say , Oh my you down from Orkney for a holiday ? |
| 30 | It used to be the Smith boot that did most of the scoring from penalties and conversions , but against Newport his handling was superb . |