Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's forehead cos that 's what people say and it used to be fore head and they change all the time that 's why need to record the words and see how they 're being pronounced . |
| 2 | I do n't know whether it ought to be the Foreign Office , the Home Office or the Ministry of Defence . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The imagination is the distinguishing characteristic of man as a progressive being ; and I repeat that it ought to be carefully guided and strengthened as the indispensable means and instrument of continued amelioration and refinement . ’ |
| 4 | It 's happy with the amount of convergence they have managed to get , saying that it 's a lot easier now to agree than it used to be , pointing to the significance of the networking and X-Windows commonality the new ABI implies . |
| 5 | Because in recent years hypnosis has tended to leave behind its mystical and Svengali-related image — and also because complementary medicine in general is far more widely accepted than it used to be — many people are less worried about the whole concept than before . |
| 6 | Light the paraffin stove now , he thought , crouching uncertainly with a box of matches , wondering if it ought to be propitiated in some way . |
| 7 | Lots of people want it to , er suggest that it ought to be holiday but |
| 8 | Erm I think in the first instance , an assessment needs to be done of all the la of the landscape quality and I would suggest that it ought to be directed away from from areas of high landscape quality , towards areas of a lower landscape quality . |
| 9 | They need no persuading that it ought to be done . ’ |
| 10 | But of course it was lovely with er , er they used to trim it up Christmas time you know and it used to be so lovely . |
| 11 | For a really weird effect , it could be combined with an actual camera movement in the opposite direction ( tracking in and tracking out , so called because it used to be done on tracks like tramlines rather than free wheels ) . |
| 12 | I mean I er i it 's more well known than it used to be . |
| 13 | I think that it is n't a general skill it at needs to be commented on , I think that it needs to commented on I think that it ought to be commented on in the comment box . |
| 14 | I think that it ought to be self-evident , erm if we 've done our programme in a way which er , is clear or if we 've presented it in a clear fashion , then I think sequence and clashes er and safety , to a large extent , become self-evident . |
| 15 | A village which started looking into its own history has discovered that it used to be somewhere else . |
| 16 | So I just , it used to be , you see that it used to be W G and Sons . |