Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb mod] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said " the words he ought to be able to spell " . |
| 2 | In this universe they ought to be huge . |
| 3 | After 16 years you ought to be fluent in the language and , if you make this a priority now , you 'll be enhancing this phase of your life instead of simply waiting for it to pass . |
| 4 | ‘ I think in any rural town it ought to be possible to find an hour or so to stroll round , just to talk to people about this and that . |
| 5 | " Unless it 's bolted on the inside we ought to be able to get in with these , " he said . |
| 6 | By asking such questions it ought to be possible to begin to address systematically some of the sources of organizational diversity which both modernity and postmodernity present to us in their many authentic ways , rather than trying to push them all into a limited number of boxes made to a dominant pattern . |
| 7 | In either case the man would know the message : and in either case they ought to be able to find him . |
| 8 | Yep , I 'd finished the lodging houses , they were rough , my word they were rough , they used to get drunk and fighting , and of course they used to be amusing really they used to get fighting at a lodging house quite close to the dock and after when the windows was smashed , we would find that they 'd been temporarily repaired with a coal sack taken from the coal yard next door , and all that sort of business , and anyhow , nothing particular out of the way happened until three years later of course when we got the general strike , and the strikers used to meet outside the labour institution headquarters in Street . |
| 9 | And they used to er have er a film Of course they used to be silent films and then er er had er and there used to be what they call interval . |
| 10 | Wendy she used to be full time , I mean the shop . |
| 11 | Do you remember those peppermint creams we used to be able to get ? |
| 12 | All over the ground floor it used to be beautiful red tiles , spotless . |
| 13 | Yeah , I think when it comes to bearing selection issues we ought to be clear in which direction we 're going in , now , it 's in our interests at the moment , as we 're unable to produce a larger series of airings in the U K or in Europe , to steer them away from those sort of design , but it seems also to be fairly clear that demands for packaging and compact design for steering gear , tend to be favouring the =mote , remote valve arrangement , therefore putting a considerable advantage |
| 14 | No , I fucking once upon a time I used to be able to do it . |
| 15 | Then one could say ‘ You 've forgotten what it must feel like ’ ; this time he ought to be aware of the pain . |
| 16 | On those grounds it ought to be possible to argue that , if a trust has been created , it is actionable if the standard of care shown by the fathers was adequate in the judgment of a good man . |