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Example sentences of "[verb] [vb mod] [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1	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 .
2	This organization is very important because the business structure with which the act starts ought to be the one they have forever .
3	The people in the company who will have to run the system , the manager or director in whose department the system will be installed ought to be involved in the selection process , but such people are unlikely to have much knowledge of computers and computer software although they may be familiar with word processing and spreadsheet systems running on microcomputers .
4	I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines .
5	Even with the extra land involved , which I seem to remember used to be a near derelict gravel soccer pitch and a few barely used tennis courts , the Roland Garros site would still only cover 21.5 acres , compared with 44 at Wimbledon .
6	Oh yes , oh yes much as they are now and the big horse we used to call them the big horses you know and er shows and that , all , they used to , Willenhall Wakes used to be fine really good , and er that was down in the Lane somewhere there .
7	and we 've , we 've alleged in the pleading that he made that he would have suffered erm either all or some part of loses would of been avoided , but that depends upon the facts and we 're
8	However , there is in addition a standard objection which holds that no such lessons can be drawn at all , at least in any directly logical way , since any project of deriving ethical content from premisses of evolutionary theory commits the ‘ naturalistic fallacy ’ , an error which is today often equated with that of trying to derive ought from is .
9	In any discussion of ‘ the state of the art of feminist film criticism ’ , or of ‘ feminism and film : where are we now , and what next ? ’ , the problems which all four women in the Channel 4 debate raised ought to be central .
10	Well , they moved off and then just getting back to sleep must of been half an hour after we 'd and heard this voice shout what you doing ?
11	Oh that was approximately about erm , well I 'm talking about now in my time it must be over twenty year ago , when he introduced that and the simple reason was there was an argument between the deputy harbourmaster and the boatmen which are the cos they used t it all happened over a ship called used to be a collier , used to run here regular and that used to discharge so much coal at Cliff Quay , then it used to go into the dock at Tolwells Quay and finish unloading because it used to bring two or three different lots of coal , it was a four hold ship , she had four holds , and there 'd be one hold for the chemical works and perhaps there 'd be three holds for and that se
12	Are the Government prepared to put up money to assist local authorities if they decide to prosecute in the interests of what they believe ought to be the law , and in fact is the law ?
13	Are there any others which people feel ought to be added to that list ?
14	Is there anything that you think needs to be changed , something that you 've picked up as a result of your study you , you feel ought to be changed in the school system ?
15	As we have said we are a new newsletter team and feel we could print a newsletter containing what we wanted or what we thought ought to be there .
16	I heard him say at one gathering that there were certain things he thought ought to be done , and he was going to do them , whether people followed him or not .
17	For these reasons I conclude that as a matter of interpretation the powers of the Director do not cease , as regards the questioning of the person under investigation , when he is charged ; that the principle of common sense , expressed in the maxim generalia specialibus non derogant , entails that the general provisions of the Code yield to the particular provisions of the Act of 1987 in cases to which that Act applies ; and that neither history nor logic demands that any qualification of what Parliament has so clearly enacted ought to be implied .
18	As well as the educational and economic arguments , there are the other factors of a social nature which the association feels ought to be taken into account when closures are being considered .
19	It can , none the less , cut out many of the worst frustrations : material that takes hours to trace , is never found , or is unavailable at the right time ; teacher-made material that takes too long , is botched in process or inexpertly designed ; equipment that does n't work , or works badly , or is preempted by someone else at the crucial moment ; timetables that do n't , when it comes to the point , allow sufficient flexibility ; help that one feels ought to be available but somehow never is .
20	It is a phrase that I think ought to be recited wherever people meet to discuss the future of farming , and recited with special emphasis on the words ‘ mild ’ and ‘ continuous ’ .
21	A second reason is that the very language we use affects the conclusions which we think ought to be reached .
22	And also I 'd welcome comments er we 've had one from er Mr that whether there are any things which you think ought to be added as well as taken away .
23	I have one other , can I reserve one matter to the end of the meeting because I wish to make a proposal which er would be erm I think ought to be taken erm in closed session because of the nature and confidentiality of the business and personal interests , so perhaps I can propose the closure of the meeting to the press and public at the end of the meeting and defer the final item an item relating to this matter at that time .
24	She would n't do it at the time , because she felt the whole issue ought to be allowed to settle down .
25	There seems to be a feeling that labour supply ought to be very sensitive to taxation so that the disincentive effects of income taxation are large .
26	‘ I have sometimes been astonished to hear the contemptuous manner in which Europeans in the Indies speak of [ Mughal architecture ] , ’ he writes , adding of the Delhi Jama Masjid : ‘ I grant that this building is not constructed according to those rules of architecture which we seem to think ought to be implicitly followed ; yet I can see no fault that offends taste .
27	Colin MacDonald is writing from Napier University in Edinburgh , which I think used to be my primary school .
28	Now the quiz will be erm what was our I mean if there 's a history of the firm what did what did used to be called or something .
29	Did used to be Boys Brigade ?
30	er sale occurred when they went through the electrical register and asked people who lived in flats whether they wanted a green cone , they did n't even have a garden , let alone a window box but nevertheless erm I the green cone extends ought to be reported on , ought to be encouraged and such like because it is the individual person who is going to recycle using their own garden in their own small way as opposed to transporting the stuff maybe to a waste tip and such like where it has to be dealt with at a an expensive way and if a the best part of the expense of dealing with waste of course is actually to transport and transport throughout the roads and if you do it in your own gardens so much the better and I , I , I should like to er and taking part in the green cone experiment er further experiments like that whereby the individual person is encouraged to do it .