Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb mod] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself thinking affectionately that I ought to be straightforward with him ; the English liked that . |
| 2 | I said that I used to be partial to them when I smoked . |
| 3 | ‘ And another thing that 's changed is that I used to be wary of getting into certain types of music , for fear they would show up in my playing ; these days , though , I figure that listening to just about anything is cool . |
| 4 | I 'm old , I know I 'm old and I ca n't do all the things that I used to be able to do . |
| 5 | He once remarked that good prose is like a window-pane , meaning that you ought to be able to see through it without seeing it ; and anyone who has ever tried to write prose like that , or to see human creatures in life or fiction like Waugh 's early fictional characters , will know how much clutter of mind and words needs first to be cleared away . |
| 6 | the point about membership is that you ought to be able to comment on those suggestions of change and get involved with them on a broad basis . |
| 7 | The erm but most of us are when yo , when you first join something you can always see the things that you ought to be able to change . |
| 8 | Be we 've got a lot that we ought to be proud of . |
| 9 | Erm , I 'm quite sure that we ought to be able to spend this money , and I think it 's it 's very sensible and it would help a great deal with the problems that we have . |
| 10 | It 's not long ago , Aunt Tossie thought ( or said to Gigi — who was still eking out her parrot 's longevity ) that we used to be rich , dear bird . |
| 11 | Lord Denning recognised that " in our constitutional theory Parliament is supreme but he saw the judges as the real " guardians of our constitution " and he felt that they ought to be able to pronounce on the validity of the conventions and " ought to have a power of judicial review of legislation similar to that in the United States : whereby the judges can set aside statutes which are contrary to our unwritten constitution — in that they are repugnant to reason or to fundamentals " . |
| 12 | I would say that they ought to be able to spend at a level which is within the S S As that have been given both for the county and for the districts , and therefore we should be below the three hundred and seventy eight . |
| 13 | Firstly , erm , issues of principle , and I I 've outlined those in item nine one six , and then acquainted them with the Lincolnshire situation , special things that we thought applied in Lincolnshire , that they ought to be aware of . |
| 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 | It is in fact a movement : a coming together of teachers whose common conviction it is that teaching up to now has been conducted in far too random and amateurish a fashion , based at best on a kind of inspired guesswork , and that it ought to be possible by putting our minds to it , and applying the sort of thinking that is successful in other fields , to do a better job than before . |
| 16 | What I 'm suggesting is that it ought to be possible to design an inner northern relief road with an appropriate junction and with appropriate traffic managements in the centre of Harrogate so that you can encourage a significant proportion of the traffic that would otherwise have used the western relief road to divert to the southern bypass and inner relief road . |
| 17 | I still got this little housewife feeling that it ought to be ready when you come in the door you know . |
| 18 | From the definition of IT above , it should be clear that IT ought to be able to offer a lot to mathematics learning in schools and colleges — but how much , in fact , has IT affected it ? |
| 19 | Mr Crump read Hope 's card several times and knew that he ought to be impressed . |
| 20 | Moreover , it has been argued that he ought to be responsible for guests or licensees on his land . |
| 21 | Saying that he ought to be able to get through a closed door as easily as an open one , Swift is supposed to have left him standing on the doorstep . |