Example sentences of "[conj] we [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we used to b boil the water . |
| 2 | that 's right where we used to perhaps |
| 3 | where we used to perhaps have five or six blokes building cars , you 've got one robot doing it now |
| 4 | So can you see why we 're looking at perhaps a , a , or we ought to be considering a figure a big higher than three hundred thousand . |
| 5 | So when we look at the grimacing gestures of a chimpanzee and wonder at the almost ludicrous parallels with our own behaviour this is just part of a whole host of behavioural and anatomical similarities that show without doubt that we ought to be classified with the apes ( we are all of us primates ) , and that we share a distant ancestor with our diminutive caricatures . |
| 6 | He 's saying that we ought to be moving a bit up market an-l selling wines , spirits and cocktails to the 18–25 age group . |
| 7 | Most educated people in this country now believe , in a vague sort of way , that we ought to be less sexually prudish than the Victorians are alleged to have been , and that sexual morality should be guarded rather by example and exhortation than by penal sanctions . |
| 8 | It 's a way of as a Council taken the position that we ought to be spending your money effectively , right . |
| 9 | But I do believe that we ought to be doing more in terms of making sure they do come out erm you know i , we know it 's only a a training exercise even though you leave one or two in there , but I think we ought |
| 10 | With these concepts in mind , Professor James ' WHO group came to the view that we ought to be concentrating on the positive aspects of the benefits of fruit and vegetables . |
| 11 | Just on that last point , it was suggested that we ought to be writing now , to these commissioners , saying that we as a parish council wanted to make comments to them when they were er in Nottinghamshire . |
| 12 | I said that we ought to er somebody asked me er from one of the national papers which ought to be put in place there and I did suggest that we ought to have a statue like just been mentioned to somebody from Beeston they 've got a nice man on a bench there . |
| 13 | Although the plan has been superimposed over an existing plan , erm , to be charitable it 's at best confusing , erm , my feeling is that in actual fact the plan there does n't actually show us , well enough , and you may consider that we ought to be asking for a much clearer plan before we make a decision . |
| 14 | Okay , but why do we get the , the main thrust of erm , to the economic argument seems to be that we ought to be liberalizing , we ought to be facing that erm , that problem . |
| 15 | Well they 're getting comfy seats and we 're star well as you can see from the last play , Wuthering Heights that erm we actually lost money on that I know it will happen but I feel that we ought to erm go along and get into a healthier position again . |
| 16 | So it would actually be very straightforward to do this , although not a couple of problems in this model that we ought to just say something about alright , the specification of four does present a couple of problems right . |
| 17 | He is er , strongly er , suggesting that we ought to be rather more pro-active than we either are , or than anybody is suggesting that we ought to be in the paper at number seventeen . |
| 18 | He is er , strongly er , suggesting that we ought to be rather more pro-active than we either are , or than anybody is suggesting that we ought to be in the paper at number seventeen . |
| 19 | Be we 've got a lot that we ought to be proud of . |
| 20 | Well certainly I mean this this whole initiative is something that I s just seemed to me when Philip got in touch in the first place , that that something that we ought to er be involved with . |
| 21 | Erm , I 'm quite sure that we ought to be able to spend this money , and I think it 's it 's very sensible and it would help a great deal with the problems that we have . |
| 22 | ‘ All I know is that we ought to be up in that tower , plannin' how we get back to our own lines , and not wastin' any more time quarrellin' down ‘ ere . ’ |
| 23 | The other thing that we ought to perhaps consider is whether you should change the timetable at all Richard to look at jobs that people expect will be taught . |
| 24 | I have rather perhaps eccentric views about this , I do n't feel that we ought to be advertising our presence to external civilizations . |
| 25 | Could n't we have the arguments that we used to ? |
| 26 | Er you see the the wireless that we 'd got was the old cats whisker on a crystal , you see , and a pair of earphones that we used to And if anybody rustled a paper , you see ? |
| 27 | There was different th different things that we used to used to do , I mean erm that was Sunday taken care of . |
| 28 | It 's not long ago , Aunt Tossie thought ( or said to Gigi — who was still eking out her parrot 's longevity ) that we used to be rich , dear bird . |
| 29 | But erm and all the old mill for milling that we used to used I mean kept our hands clean anyway . |
| 30 | We we are n't , perhaps not the world-power that we used to be . |