Example sentences of "this [modal v] [prep] [be] [art] " in BNC.

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1 If children are allowed and encouraged to work in areas which interest them , this ought to be a useful means of demonstrating to them the usefulness of developing their reading skills .
2 Whether the Council I , I personally would be quite keen to go down there and see A , and we 'd need permission of the land owners , to do this , to see where the link could go across , you know , the best position , so that we , and I believe this is what Councillor is saying , so that we can actually come forward and maybe this ought to be a meeting with the Amenities Committee , maybe the Ramblers and bear in mind as I say again I hate to do these things and the land owner think we 're steamrollering 'em into something without their knowledge .
3 Are we not being reminded in a very distinctive yet emphatic way that this ought to be the nature of the Church ?
4 John I think this , this is wh , I think this ought to be the last contribution .
5 This used to be a lot easier to do than it is now : for one thing , working in the profession means that you have to belong to the actors ' union , Equity .
6 This used to be a perception shared with Protestants .
7 This used to be a recreation room .
8 ‘ What does it mean here , where it says that this used to be a ‘ crubeen shop ’ ? ’
9 This used to be a lord 's fishing lodge , ’ Mrs Knelle told me , with a slight laugh .
10 This used to be a bubbling mill stream
11 There was an added difficulty that the three of then , would break into convulsions of laughter , verging on hysterics , with Hopper somewhere off camera rolling around in the bushes and , according to Nicholson , ‘ totally freaked out ’ while Jack was forcing himself to be relatively straight , do his serious acting and hold the whole thing together : ‘ This used to be a helluva good country … ’
12 THIS USED to be a hell of a country , ’ muses drop-out Jack Nicholson , ‘ what the hell happened to it ? ’
13 This used to be a happy place , ’ moaned the animals , ‘ until that beast came along . ’
14 This used to be a hell of a country , before we started letting red slits like you run loose in the streets frightening the children with their hammers and sickles . ’
15 This used to be a wonderful scree running down to Mosedale , which was like gliding down an escalator .
16 This used to be a problem for many people as a result of the Earnings Rule .
17 Yes well the rest is all modern cos this used to be a church but then it was turned into a museum , it 's now a museum .
18 But this used to be a bicycle shop , the first world war .
19 For Craig Cook , a reformed car thief , this used to be a way of life .
20 This used to be a regular sight in the village of Bloxham , near Banbury .
21 This erm this used to be a distribution sort of
22 Standard disc drive : This used to be the easiest data story to copy .
23 This used to be the Hotel Santa Clara but is now used by telephone engineers .
24 Indeed , this used to be the main argument of opponents of black holes : how could one believe in objects for which the only evidence was calculations based on the dubious theory of general relativity ?
25 This used to be the system operated in the UK when banks had to set their interest rates in line with Bank rate .
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