Example sentences of "what [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is clear that the focus is on what ought to be taught : the intended curriculum . |
| 32 | Suffice it to say that , after referring to the ‘ extraordinary , and perhaps unique , jurisdiction of the Visitors to the Inns of Court , ’ he found that the judges possessed a residual jurisdiction by which , in an exceptional case , they might remit a matter to an Inn and direct it to reconsider , with the Inns ' Council and the Bar Council , what ought to be the criteria by which they should judge the question before it determined the application afresh . |
| 33 | Yes , that 's it : ‘ What ought to be a famous person , but is n't ? ’ |
| 34 | Gaitskell was anxious to identify the ‘ mole ’ in this case and asked me what ought to be done . |
| 35 | Using measures which explain variations in utilisation in normative formulas is to confuse what is with what ought to be . |
| 36 | ‘ Using measures which explain variations in utilisation in normative formulas is to confuse what is with what ought to be . |
| 37 | Doctor Robertson , & Lagganlochan shall direct And the Expence thereof to be payd out of the overplus sum stented as King 's Cess , above what ought to be stented as King 's Cess for this year and Last year . " |
| 38 | Doctor Robertson , & Lagganlochan shall direct And the Expence thereof to be payd out of the overplus sum stented as King 's Cess , above what ought to be stented as King 's Cess for this year and Last year . " |
| 39 | 1988 , etc. ) , there was a tendency to acquiesce in this conventional wisdom and all that went with it : the reduction of what ought to be a complex and multi-faceted debate to the simple adversarialism of ‘ formal ’ versus ‘ informal ’ , ‘ didactic ’ versus ‘ exploratory ’ , teacher as ‘ instructor ’ versus teacher as ‘ facilitator ’ , rote learning versus ‘ discovery ’ , ‘ subjects ’ versus ‘ integration ’ , class teaching versus group work , ‘ traditional ’ versus ‘ progressive ’ , ‘ bad practice ’ versus ‘ good ’ . |
| 40 | Theresa Billington Greig , who broke away from the Pankhursts ' suffragette organisation , the Women 's Social and Political Union , over the issue of militant action , was virtually alone in criticising suffragists and suffragettes who regarded the home ‘ as an exemplar of what ought to be in the political world ’ . |
| 41 | They were the North Riding Authority , er the East Riding Authority , the West Riding Authority , all of which converged on the on the city of York , and as you read through the files , er you will see that even then the D O E were trying to get erm those er those predecessor authorities in the late fifties , early sixties er to come to some view about what ought to be better for Greater York , so for many years the idea of Greater York ha has been current er in one guise or another . |
| 42 | Then indeed , after a long time , Childebert considered what ought to be added , and he instituted from 78 to 83 , which he is known to have imposed worthily , and so he transmitted these writings to his brother Chlothar . |
| 43 | Afterwards , when he [ Chlothar ] had gladly received these titles from his older brother [ Childebert ] , he considered in his own kingdom what ought to be added there , and what further should be included , and he ordered clauses 84 to 63 [ for 93 ? ] to be fixed . |
| 44 | Thesiger LJ said that arbitrators incurred " enormous " expense in calling witnesses , " which was entirely thrown away , for as soon as the arbitrators saw the property they knew at once what ought to be done " . |
| 45 | He 's as well sit pushing papers around pretending to be busy but drawing the salary than being made redundant which is what ought to be happening . |
| 46 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 47 | With the best will in the world , I am not responsible for what was said over the weekend or for what may to be a contradiction . |
| 48 | Barr , in what used to be a general policy for museum curators , was not writing a passionate defence of the work his museum exhibited . |
| 49 | Interestingly , the pain this causes shows itself as what used to be called ‘ groin strain ’ . |
| 50 | The process has evolved over the decade with the linking up of what used to be short runs into long , cross-country routes . |
| 51 | Llanelli 's 14-12 win was also a reminder of what used to be . |
| 52 | still blessed with a scent of what used to be called the counter-culture , they are also the most responsive to music generated from outside the mainstream corporate structure . |
| 53 | Cockney Rebel had it a bit , and it was the time of the film Cabaret , The Rocky Horror Show and Biba 's nightclub on the roof of what used to be Derry and Toms Every other phrase in the newspapers seemed to be ‘ Iounge lizard ’ . |
| 54 | We were invited to drive the cars in west Germany where the smooth road surface always flatters cars ' suspensions , but even when we nipped into what used to be east Germany and drove on roads that did not seem to have been maintained since the war , the G40 's bump suppression was admirable . |
| 55 | Adjacent to the monastery , in what used to be the Great Gate-house , is the Abbey House Museum with three reconstructed Victorian streets . |
| 56 | Both countries have managed to become the most visibly successful economies in what used to be called their respective ‘ blocs ’ . |
| 57 | Here by the Oberbaum bridge across the icy Spree is what used to be a quintessential Cold War Berlin scene . |
| 58 | The placing of Uruguay and Colombia in the third pool has satisfied the South Americans , and what used to be called the Iron Curtain countries can not complain . |
| 59 | Their ritualled life is interrupted only by Saxon 's unclear memories of what used to be , along with the movement of the grotesque Brogan in the ‘ upper world ’ . |
| 60 | Court architects set the fashion , and what used to be an essentially English style took on a strong foreign influence . |