Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [modal v] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figure 1.1 on page 4 drew attention to six qualities which the whole of the curriculum ought to be encouraging . |
| 2 | The citizen ought to be able to find the basic law , the principal law , in statutory form . |
| 3 | Did , did the racecourse used to be busy ? |
| 4 | That it would be out of place to use scientific discoveries in the course of the investigation ought to be clear : if science is optional , it would be improper to use results deriving from that science in justifying it ; and , if scientific results are held , tentatively , at arm 's length anyway , they are not certain beliefs that would be appropriate for philosophical argument . |
| 5 | The Purchaser ought to be entitled to rely on the details of the Business which the Vendor has volunteered . |
| 6 | Commercial contractual relations had become valuable rights which could be regarded as entitled to at least some of the protection given by the law to property and while it was argued that the plaintiff ought to be satisfied with his action for breach of contract against the party induced , the latter might be incapable of paying all the damages . |
| 7 | The place used to be lousy with them . |
| 8 | The race used to be cash-orientated but these days attracts more enthusiasts than those determined to be first over the line , said Mr Brown , who was reminded of the film made about the race when they saw a man in a huge Alvis wearing what appeared to be an animal . |
| 9 | Then he said the father ought to be ashamed of himself , using children who should be in school to make money , and that one day the police would find him . |
| 10 | Anyway , the debate ought to be fun since what is certain is that American audiences , or at least distributors , have at least as much contempt as those here for independent features without bankable stars , car chases and expensive special effects . |
| 11 | Choose three or four and pick the ones that most need correcting , that is , the words the pupil ought to be able to spell at this stage ( see What goes wrong ? , page 6 ) . |
| 12 | Thus , faced with words with a medial e sound like : head bed thread or led health except the pupil ought to be clear that because there is a spelling choice , he is encouraged to use the dictionary to check which is the correct form for this context . |
| 13 | It 's terrible what 's happening to him , it really is , the Government ought to be ashamed of itself . |
| 14 | Do you think the Church ought to be open to change ? |
| 15 | The catapult ought to be safe so long as nobody knew its name . |
| 16 | The attempt to launch new London evening papers reflected an enduring belief that the capital ought to be able to support more than one . |
| 17 | The Support Force crossed the great divide and for that the profession ought to be grateful . |
| 18 | I suspect it 's an assumption Switchboard shares with the wider white-dominated gay community — a reflection that , for once , the organization ought to be ashamed of . |
| 19 | maybe a bit younger the fashion used to be winkle-picker shoes . |
| 20 | If the Germans can provide this , we should be grateful to them just as the world ought to be grateful to us for having a zero line of longitude running constantly through Greenwich ’ . |
| 21 | Making a list of the most powerful people in the country used to be easy . |
| 22 | For all your alleged love for the poor and the oppressed , you seem to think that the public ought to be selfish when it votes . |
| 23 | What we are saying is , the patient ought to be able to determine at any stage of their illness what care they receive , and they ought to know what is coming next . |
| 24 | The disease used to be fatal frequently because of the non-visualisation of the vessel and ‘ blind ’ gastric resection with recurrent haemorrhage postoperatively . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course the transcriber — this Yank — wanted it to be all very hush-hush and MI5 , but I rang Mrs Machin myself , and checked up , and she said with all this new interest she thought the material ought to be available to any scholar who wanted to look at it . |