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

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1 But he sees this foundationalist as a weak-kneed sceptic , who ought in consistency to go further ; who ought , in fact , to doubt whether he understands the proposition that other minds exist , and so ought to be a solipsist .
2 I mean they all ought to be geared up for all this for Christ 's sake .
3 But operations uniformly repeated , motions which succeed one another without interruption , are the causes which alone ought to be the foundation of our reasoning " .
4 It perhaps ought to be pointed out here that an odd sentence is not necessarily meaningless , or incapable of conveying a message ; nor is it the case that such sentences never occur naturally .
5 Well that makes a kind of convenient break actually , because what I wanted to start on er then was things which really perhaps ought to be postponed till , till next .
6 I think those points perhaps ought to be taken up at the General Purposes Committee since er we have the problem of their decisions .
7 Not only is it ably led by the shrewd Gordon Taylor ( who perhaps ought to be running the FA ) , the players ' union also has a record which other unions would be proud of .
8 Twelve o'clock used to be a great well as far as I can remember .
9 And er well you go further through and you can go to the erm And the the Narrowmarsh it was narrow and all , you could shake hands with one another o off the but it now is all council houses is built down there now where they only used to be ordinary little houses .
10 It only used to be a penny .
11 Course i e , it 's very expensive now but it it only used to be about one and six a pound right up to the end of the war and it 's now two pounds a pound and
12 I mean it only , it only used to be like the The Plough and and The Bath and er New Inn and
13 Well apparently used to be trained .
14 We all used to be at the desk — four of us , plus Roy Thomas-Baker and Mike Stone — all six of us with fingers on the faders and sometimes we 'd work thirty-hour mixes !
15 You know , it all used to be so simple .
16 We all used to be together on New Year 's Eve , did n't we , Dad ? ’
17 They look better They all used to be one colour before but we 've now extended the range and so they 've put them in different colour bottles .
18 If you were last the food would be cold , because it all used to be laid out waiting for you to collect .
19 And then in the streets , there was no electric lights in the street , they all used to be gas .
20 It all used to be quite lovely before we had
21 We wish also to persuade him that once he takes fully into account that his ultimate goals are spontaneous ( are , not ought to be ; what they ought to be is intelligent as well as spontaneous ) , he will require no first principle other than ‘ Be aware ’ for choosing between them .
22 I was to perform two of Joyce 's pieces , the first being ‘ Committee ’ , a deadly accurate re-creation of a Northern Ladies Choral Committee meeting convened to axe one of its founder members : ‘ Now , we do n't want any unpleasantness , friendly is what we are and friendly is how we mean to go on … but I think we all know there is one voice in the altos that did not ought to be there .
23 ‘ But it is , ’ he insisted , as if this somehow ought to be the best news she 'd ever heard in her life .
24 It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat .
25 But when the Sixties arrived , even elderly men starting sporting pink shirts ( pink ! — that just used to be the colour of their gin ) and sideburns .
26 That just used to be a mud pile there .
27 but it was n't like a long thing but like I , the time that I spent with him was like quite a long time , like the evening , whatever , so he 'd get , and like it just used to be constant pauses , it used to be terrible and so we used to get off with each other like you pause for , for what
28 Not just sales , so it should n't just be the appointments in your diary , and a lot of you will not used to be keeping a diary as well .
29 Fucking would of been taken me ear off .
30 Charmwood the house and she was saying when her mum and dad were courting , where they used to do the co courting , like must of been a wood and that I think
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