Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [vb mod] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industry in this town used to be great but everything 's shutting . |
| 2 | Again he follows Aristotle in believing that each child ought to be male and that a female is the result of misadventure . |
| 3 | The second supposition is ideological , that ownership ought to be individual . |
| 4 | Clearly , each such area ought to be able to make some contribution to analysing George and Marie 's problems . |
| 5 | Neither group ought to be disappointed by what they hear . |
| 6 | And surely any dramatist ought to be able to move us with that final night of Holly 's life , when his musicians ( including Waylon Jennings ) gave their places on the ‘ plane to the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens . |