Example sentences of "[verb] it [modal v] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | With petit mal , the small fit , it used to called vaguely , you could talk to somebody and then go on nattering away and then suddenly the person would switch off and then just stare and then after a while they come back and talk to you and it 's , they pick up exactly where they 've left off , so as I say it used to be called day dreaming , now that 's the low end of the scale , now we go to the other end of the scale and remember please that there 's no set type for an epileptic , anybody , anywhere , any age at any time can have an epileptic fit , you do n't have to be that type , do n't . |
| 2 | Life had to be what she believed it ought to be ; she had no sense of reality . |
| 3 | She says it used to be beautiful , but the rectory and the church are a disgrace . |
| 4 | When opened it played the chorus of ‘ Spread a Little Happiness ’ , although the book stipulated it ought to be the ‘ Wedding March ’ . |
| 5 | But do you feel it ought to be a free market erm situation , at least to the extent that anyone can move into any area they wish to provided they could find a place to live ? |
| 6 | When I came it used to be a very old building which belonged to British Legion club previously and er Sikhs bought from them . |
| 7 | But whether a monetarist or exchange rate policy is preferred it ought to be clear that the country can no longer endure an ambiguous mix of the two . |
| 8 | or 170 MN/m 2 which is round about the average for laboratory glassware , window panes , beer bottles and most of the other common forms of glass but was something between a fiftieth and a hundredth of what he reckoned it ought to be . |
| 9 | I think now that it exists it ought to be giving money to these things , but I think it ought to be taking the advice of the panels of artists and museum people . |
| 10 | Remember it used to be three inches long and now a foot long , with a flapper |
| 11 | If private capital can be attracted — and I believe it could to the right project — it seems to me entirely right that we should do what we can as Government to create the right climate for a successful link to be built . |
| 12 | He says that 's what you want but I said yeah but there ai n't no bloody fit I reckon it ought to be them on legs maybe . |
| 13 | I reckon it ought to be compulsory that . |
| 14 | He was slim and attractive , certainly , but his body was not quite as tense and muscular as he felt it ought to be . |
| 15 | You felt it ought to be because the feeling I had nobody for at least another generation would really have the roots in Harlow , that was looking at my children |
| 16 | Thus , to George 's great indignation , he would arrive at a racecourse to hear that the cup for the 2.30 was about to be presented to the winner by Mrs Frank Coven , when he thought it ought to be presented by Lord Wigg . |
| 17 | Because it means you can always criticize the individual , for either not having done the job well enough or for having not done it quite the way you thought it ought to be done . |
| 18 | Marx thought it ought to . |
| 19 | Well I thought that cycling built power in the leg muscles , it 's , I mean it ought to did n't it ? |
| 20 | And is it , I mean it used to just be men who would do these things and |
| 21 | But I mean it used to be every day |
| 22 | and I mean it used to be the fact , oh god well we 've got to sort of have dinner at twelve o'clock , we 've got to be round there by four . |
| 23 | stick tea bag in it now , cos I mean it used to be tea did n't it , all at one time ? |
| 24 | The first thing to get straight about Zurich is that it is not the capital of Switzerland , though there are times when one thinks it ought to be , and others when one gets the impression that it would not mind at all if it was . |
| 25 | erm When the the the job description is signed it ought to be passed by a job analyst just to make sure to check the things that erm it has been done properly and then it has to be signed by the erm job holder , the job holder 's manager and the head of division , and it has to be got to personnel . |
| 26 | We still find Christian undergraduates entering universities , and ordinands coming into theological colleges , who have no idea of the tremendous advances that have been made in biblical scholarship and whose first contact with historical criticism is a dismaying and frightening experience instead of , as I think it ought to be , a liberating and wholly enhancing experience . |
| 27 | With respect I really think it ought to be recycling and nothing else . |
| 28 | I think now that it exists it ought to be giving money to these things , but I think it ought to be taking the advice of the panels of artists and museum people . |
| 29 | Which is detrimental to the town and we are trying to keep this town as we think it ought to be kept . |
| 30 | So , you either decide to start again , or you cut and paste , often laboriously , to move the range to where you think it ought to be in the first place . |