Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb mod] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BIRDS do it , bees do it , but you used to be able to watch Emmerdale Farm with your granny and be confident that the cast would n't do it . |
| 2 | ‘ Really , it just follows the principles of long-term contract accounting , but we ought to be able to do it better than SSAP 9 practitioners because , while they apply the theory to a handful of different contracts , we are applying it to 20m policies . |
| 3 | But we ought to be aware of what values we 're holding in in various |
| 4 | It had worked very well last night with Fräulein Hubert , better than he 'd hoped , but he ought to be careful until his plans were all consolidated , then he could dump Ingrid and carry on where he 'd left off with that lovely little thing . |
| 5 | Probably having keys would bee greeted with horror by some , but it ought to be possible to rationalise the finger holes . |
| 6 | But it used to be different then … there was n't no atmosphere like there is now and there were n't no fence around the London Road like now … |