Example sentences of "[modal v] to be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 2 | Just as disturbingly , the draft guidance goes on to suggest that in order to allow future generations to have some reserves after 2011 , some of these potentially very damaging permissions should to be held in reserve to satisfy the principle of sustainable development ! |
| 3 | Just as disturbingly , the draft guidance goes on to suggest that in order to allow future generations to have some reserves after 2011 , some of these potentially very damaging permissions should to be held in reserve to satisfy the principle of sustainable development ! |
| 4 | P P G three , the revised P P G three when it came out clearly , in my opinion changes the emphasis from the draft P P G three from the draft P P G three , paragraphs thirty two and thirty three which I would emphasize should to be read together , clearly indicates that new settlements are as someone said this morning , sorry , earlier in the discussion today , an issue of last resort . |
| 5 | she never slept and our Edmond used to be worn out |
| 6 | It used to be argued that turbulence was necessary to ensure the oxygenation of the water and the continuation of the food supply , but it is now thought that the main role of turbulence is in getting rid of excess carbon dioxide . |
| 7 | It used to be argued that , for example , a motorway could not be sold or that no one would buy a sewer . |
| 8 | It used to be argued that party strife declined rapidly under the first two Georges ; that political stability was finally established under Sir Robert Walpole during the 1720s , and by 1733 , as Plumb once put it , " the two-party system was at an end " . |
| 9 | ISC used to be run as a state-within-a-state by James Guerin , its founder , until his forced departure from the group in May . |
| 10 | I REMEMBER the innocent days back when Club Dog used to be run out of a scout hut in Wood Green . |
| 11 | Yes , cos they usually all water underneath there and that used to be pumped out , every so often the engine room would pump all that out and to heat any water up the cabins there used to be a , a small pump what used to pump the fresh water into the boiler and I used to have a a piece of er copper off that and just turn the steam on a little bit put it into a bucket of cold water and then instead of driving the pump that 'd go into the , the er bucket and heat the water and boil it . |
| 12 | There are many large quintas in Monte as it used to be favoured by the rich who moved up to their summer houses when it became too hot and humid in Funchal . |
| 13 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 14 | It is used less and less as people have cracked down because of its toxicity — it used to be sloshed around . |
| 15 | Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd |
| 16 | Now , of course , the word processor or computer can take over much that used to be printed . |
| 17 | The substantive work has consequently shifted from the party headquarters , where all decisions used to be made , to the conference hall and the corridors . |
| 18 | What objects do you know which are now made of plastic but which used to be made from wood or steel ? |
| 19 | Cheesecakes used to be made in quantity for the feast . |
| 20 | Eldorado Close got its name from a kind of needle that used to be made locally . |
| 21 | They used to be made at Mr King 's in Station Street . |
| 22 | Well , in the old days , those used to be made from twigs , and even longer ago people used to use brooms like that to sweep the streets and even to sweep their houses . |
| 23 | Cotton paper used to be made with cotton rags but is now made from cotton linters , which refers to the second harvest from the cotton plant . |
| 24 | Mr. Taylor : As many of the laws that used to be made in the House of Commons are now made by the Council of Ministers , and as we can discuss its decisions for only one and a half hours after 10 o'clock at night , does the Lord President agree that this makes nonsense of democracy and deprives the public of the knowledge of what is going on ? |
| 25 | They used to be made in the shape of Christ 's tombstone , and years ago , all bread baked on Good Friday was marked with a cross as a symbol of good luck . |
| 26 | Crane driver , television tubes , light bulbs , do you know these bulbs er , they used to come er , we used t they used to be made here , they used to be sent over to Holland and the brass bit used to be put in and the element inside and they used to go over there in cardboard boxes all loose and there used to be hundreds of them broken , they did n't , they did n't worry about it , as long as they , they reckon that as long as they get twenty five percent a hold they were satisfied and they were just in ordinary boxes , no paper in or nothing , just all loose . |
| 27 | She says that the canons used to be filled with nails , nuts and bolts etc and they could cut a man in half . |
| 28 | Local inhabitants recall that thistles used to be placed down the outside school toilets before the unsuspecting used them ! |
| 29 | Taking the French system as an example , the huissier de justice engaged by the plaintiff will deliver the documents to the ministère public ; this is a body of officers attached to the court and primarily responsible for the public prosecution function in the criminal jurisdiction , and customarily and conveniently referred to as the parquet ( which literally means ‘ the well of the court ’ where these officers used to be placed ) . |
| 30 | I have stopped telling customers that it used to be ripened under piles of manure , as it seemed to stop them from buying it . |