Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , he 's only had the same length of time doing this as you have so , by the end of the afternoon you ought to be in the position to print out a really neat final version of of of the letter . |
| 2 | But no doubt just sheer distaste of the actual typefaces used , which were the winkle-bag was the description they used to be given . |
| 3 | It means that the recession which ought to be ending is gathering pace . ’ |
| 4 | As for the hair which used to be trimmed by a top London stylist and had swung in a smooth shoulder-skimming bob , it had not been cut for months and was now bundled unceremoniously on to the top of her head . |
| 5 | As a result , ‘ governmental assemblies , whose chief activities were of the kind which ought to be limited by law , became able to command whatever they pleased simply by calling their commands ‘ law ’ ' . |
| 6 | There is a word that 's used , there 's a term that 's used for this sort of effect this is the term it used to be called |
| 7 | Much of the labour which used to be involved in manipulating and presenting data can now be delegated to specialised computer software but the basic issues of coding and structuring data still depend on the skills of the analyst . |
| 8 | I said cancer is not a killer when I should have said it is not the killer it used to be . |
| 9 | It is n't really you who 's feeling this way , it 's the girl you used to be who 's been somehow resurrected — brought back to life by all the memories that surround you . |
| 10 | They open up the these blast furnaces and the , we 'd all be in the open air and the reflection there used to be quite a reflection in the sky all round there . |
| 11 | This discussion suggests that the question we ought to be asking is not a descriptive one — what is public law ? — but a prescriptive or normative one : when ought public law rules apply ; or , what is the proper scope of public law ? |
| 12 | Her only way of coping with her over-identification with my situation was to try to reassert control over the child I used to be and prevent the cycle repeating itself . |
| 13 | Before the rain there used to be the river running next to a green and a road next to that . |
| 14 | Her face was thinner , not altogether a good thing , and she 'd had her hair coloured too , a sort of pale version of the colour it used to be . |
| 15 | It may be necessary to create a new identity or to rediscover the person we used to be . |
| 16 | Although it is traumatic , having one 's life turned upside-down like this , discovering I 'm not the person I used to be . |
| 17 | " Unless it 's bolted on the inside we ought to be able to get in with these , " he said . |
| 18 | Most portable types are around £20 — that 's half the price they used to be 10 years ago . |
| 19 | Come on , if they 're asleep during the day they ought to be woken up . |
| 20 | She saw the spell-binder he used to be and the strength of personality that bound people to him . |
| 21 | It is difficult to share David Jones ' enthusiasm for the humble titration when one remembers all the argument there used to be about standardisation . |
| 22 | Hendon 's not the area it used to be . |
| 23 | The General , half the beast it used to be and back in the red at the mid-point of 1992 , will be lucky to break even this year , despite vast attempts over the last three years to clear the decks and keep a tight ship . |
| 24 | Dose assessment : The account of dose calculation contained in Urquhart 's article does not allow the method he used to be completely understood , and it has proved to be impossible to obtain the ‘ fuller version ’ of the article , either from the Journal of Nuclear Information . |
| 25 | It is no accident that there is a similarity between the diagnostic test , above , and the claim which used to be advanced in transformational grammar to the effect that an attributive adjective incorporated in a noun phrase is derived from some such structure as : ( 6 ) the N present BE ADJ This proposal was questioned quite early in the development of transformational grammar ( see Berman , 1974 ) , and a major reason for this was precisely the fact that too many phrases with attributive adjectives were discovered where the derivation does not seem to be usable ; as we shall see later , there are other reasons why such a derivation may not work , apart from the issue discussed here . |
| 26 | There was a a lot of shops on and then as across the road there used to be a Road and there used to be a lot of shops there . |
| 27 | He would give me a hearty slap on the back , comment on my expanding girth — ’ Twice the man you used to be , Andreas , eh ? ’ — say that we must meet again ’ for a jar , old man , but just this moment I have to rush , ’ look at his watch , sigh apologetically and shoot off to his next meeting or liquid lunch or whatever . |
| 28 | However , and it also has a down- side because now the contractors will be able to see the information which used to be confidential that local authorities will be putting on the table , but the point is it 's a chink , it 's a way forward we need to build on this . |
| 29 | If the world did n't contain those beautiful creatures , he 'd decided , it was n't half the world it ought to be . |
| 30 | Why do n't we go back to the way we used to be ? |