Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In his BBC days , Hanna used to be overweight and combative . |
| 32 | Apparently his grandmothers Budgie used to be able to say ‘ Top of the morning to you ! … |
| 33 | Gosstandard used to be responsible for approving ( for a price ) all technology imported for use in the Soviet Union . |
| 34 | The 13th century Coaley Millpond used to be full of crystal clear water . |
| 35 | Demolition sites used to be wonderful sources of all manner of material . |
| 36 | It seems to me that formulation of the precise grounds upon which overpayments of tax ought to be recoverable and of any exceptions to the right of recovery , may involve nice considerations of policy which are properly the province of Parliament and are not suitable for consideration by the courts . |
| 37 | Neither group ought to be disappointed by what they hear . |
| 38 | For Marxist or Hegelian thought , such an age-old contradiction ought to be resolvable through the operations of dialectical logic . |
| 39 | That it would be out of place to use scientific discoveries in the course of the investigation ought to be clear : if science is optional , it would be improper to use results deriving from that science in justifying it ; and , if scientific results are held , tentatively , at arm 's length anyway , they are not certain beliefs that would be appropriate for philosophical argument . |
| 40 | The Government 's proposition is simple : a person making a claim that may date back a great many years ought to be able to produce some evidence to back it up . |
| 41 | The whole place ought to be full of rabbits . |
| 42 | What Mr is seeking to do now is to raise a much wider issue , it seems to us , and that is that Skelton ought to be washed-over in its entirety with greenbelt notation . |
| 43 | What we can not countenance though sir , is any widening o of the route that they seek to go down , to have these sites included in the greenbelt , and that 's to say to entertain the argument that the whole of Skelton ought to be washed-over . |
| 44 | Commercial contractual relations had become valuable rights which could be regarded as entitled to at least some of the protection given by the law to property and while it was argued that the plaintiff ought to be satisfied with his action for breach of contract against the party induced , the latter might be incapable of paying all the damages . |
| 45 | Barton has heavy borrowings too , and to put it crudely , if they 're paying interest and Huerter is n't , Huerter ought to be able to undercut them in the market . ’ |
| 46 | The Purchaser ought to be entitled to rely on the details of the Business which the Vendor has volunteered . |
| 47 | The same kind of accident used to be common with gliders , and the pilots could never remember anything after the first bounce . |
| 48 | The place used to be lousy with them . |
| 49 | Looking back on his earlier career , he said : ‘ Banks used to be terrible at monitoring their own costs and profitability . |
| 50 | 15.8.2 Arbitration appeals used to be commonplace |
| 51 | And somewhere through the hotel muzak lurks the sensation that things used to be different , that we ( my brother and I ) had n't always been wrapped in jumpers , silent , staring at the screen , that the days used to be hot and long . |
| 52 | The industry in this town used to be great but everything 's shutting . |
| 53 | A good keeper ought to be able to become a better slip fieldsman than most of those NZ had there early in the international season . |
| 54 | For the sake of the stability of the continent , ‘ bona fide ’ Europeans ought to be sure what they think . |
| 55 | ‘ Bawdy ought to be outrageous and extravagant , ’ Lewis had written ; and Green tells us , ‘ he proceeds to give a very mild example . ’ |
| 56 | Furthermore , the government ( Minister of Land , 1966 , 3 ) has not only sanctioned this growth when , as long ago as 1966 , they stated ‘ that townspeople ought to be able to spend their leisure in the countryside if they want to ’ but following a report of the House of Lords ( HL Select Committee 1973 ) has also endorsed and encouraged recreational uses when they accepted ( Secretary of State for the Environment , 1975 , 1 ) that ‘ recreation should be regarded as one of the community 's everyday needs and that provision for it is part of the social services ’ . |
| 57 | Therefore providers ought to be able to agree to contracts for these services at a lower price . |
| 58 | A Department of Energy spokesman said : ‘ Hopefully this should not lead to power cuts in most cases because distributors ought to be able to get supplies from other area boards . ’ |
| 59 | It should be marketed as a beer in its own right ; its alcohol content ought to be irrelevant , ’ says Karsten . |
| 60 | So anyone who 's putting up a lot of their own money is untrustworthy and there should be limitation on how much people can stand , erm Mill actually goes into some figures at this point and rather quaintly says erm either fifty pounds or a hundred pounds ought to be adequate and I do n't know what that translates to now . |