Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [vb mod] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean you used to be able to go ah ! |
| 2 | Yeah well come on I mean we ought to be able to be a little bit more creative than that . |
| 3 | I know I ought to be different , but there it is . |
| 4 | ‘ Thanks , although I suppose I ought to be thankful it was n't a kiwi you likened me to . ’ |
| 5 | I feel I ought to be nice to them wherever possible . |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose we ought to be grateful to Eleanor , ’ she said wryly . |
| 7 | ‘ But I suppose we ought to be sensible and try to get some sleep , ’ she added reluctantly . |
| 8 | I feel we ought to be able to give you a better idea of the performance of different planning authorities . |
| 9 | They feel they ought to be immune and , in their health , superior to lay people . |
| 10 | I reckon it ought to be compulsory that . |
| 11 | ‘ Now you cheap shamus , with the underhanded methods you use you ought to be able to figure this out before the cops get around to it . |
| 12 | Erm I think I ought to be brief on this . |
| 13 | I think we ought to be pleased at the money made available in the last 5 years for players . |
| 14 | If they ca n't get sufficient profit out of supplying gas in the U K I think British Gas is on the verge of withdrawing from the gas market in the U K , and that a lot of jobs in this country and I think we ought to be aware of that and I think we ought to be campaigning to make sure that does n't happen . |
| 15 | erm I think we ought to be aware of the implications of what is happening to our population locally , regionally , nationally , globally . |
| 16 | The private sector probably has even more flexibility to find imaginative ways of addressing those issues than the statutory services ; I think we ought to be prepared to give backing . |