Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 2 | The moorlands also used to be a larder for great raptors : hen harrier and short-eared owl , quartering the heather in endless search of prey . |
| 3 | The phrase really ought to be changed , though , to read better ‘ Windows 3.0 than Windows ’ 3.0 . |
| 4 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 5 | When he died , the legacy had not yet vested , and so the trust too ought to be ineffective . |
| 6 | Failing this , the section either ought to be amended to provide , as does s.61 ( below ) , for persons to sue where they have been adversely affected , or , as is the case in the US , where they can show that they have traded during the same time period as the insider . |