Example sentences of "this [vb mod] [prep] be " in BNC.
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1 | Are we not being reminded in a very distinctive yet emphatic way that this ought to be the nature of the Church ? |
2 | The voters need no persuading that this ought to be so . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | John I think this , this is wh , I think this ought to be the last contribution . |
5 | A kind of ring fence is drawn around them and the onus lies on the government to show whether , why and to what extent this ought to be breached . |
6 | We do see scope for research into resource allocation but believe this ought to be quite different from the common practice of the 1980s of relating census variables to utilisation rates . |
7 | This ought to be one of the easier local economic problems to solve ! |
8 | 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 . |
9 | I think this ought to be thrown out not necessarily on the rights or wrongs of fox hunting but on a procedural thing that you 've brought about where a dictatorial attitude is brought about by the Labour party that have the right apparently to say exactly what 'll happen on someone else 's land . |
10 | And it 's my view , you see , that this ought to be more central to our planning and thinking about these things in allocating erm what are admittedly scarce resources . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | This used to be a perception shared with Protestants . |
13 | This used to be one of my lucky venues and I have some real nice memories of bagging sessions and wads of notes . |
14 | ‘ This used to be a recreation room . |
15 | This used to be called a tight fiscal policy . |
16 | ‘ What does it mean here , where it says that this used to be a ‘ crubeen shop ’ ? ’ |
17 | ‘ This used to be a lord 's fishing lodge , ’ Mrs Knelle told me , with a slight laugh . |
18 | This used to be a bubbling mill stream |
19 | 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 … ’ |
20 | Standard disc drive : This used to be the easiest data story to copy . |
21 | This used to be the Hotel Santa Clara but is now used by telephone engineers . |
22 | ‘ THIS USED to be a hell of a country , ’ muses drop-out Jack Nicholson , ‘ what the hell happened to it ? ’ |
23 | ‘ This used to be a happy place , ’ moaned the animals , ‘ until that beast came along . ’ |
24 | 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 . ’ |
25 | The first single from the new LP is scheduled for release in late September , and follows Madonna 's recent hit 45 ‘ This Used To Be My Playground ’ , which will not feature on the LP . |
26 | This used to be a wonderful scree running down to Mosedale , which was like gliding down an escalator . |
27 | This used to be a problem for many people as a result of the Earnings Rule . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 ? |
30 | But this used to be a bicycle shop , the first world war . |