Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what if the parent is not happy with this and believes that their child really ought to be doing more homework ? |
| 2 | Money always used to be a problem in my own life . |
| 3 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 4 | However , who 's to say that this figure would n't be as open to exaggeration as amp output always used to be ? |
| 5 | But Miller 's achievement was to liberate the District from feelings of guilt that the bulk of its provision really ought to be Tutorial Classes for manual workers in political and social studies . |
| 6 | Oh yes er I think somebody kept it around father 's day , a chap named , but it was a beautiful old place and he always , because my father always used to erm start off about seven o'clock in the morning to walk down to Walkers and er call in at the White Hart because they were open at six o'clock in the morning , for a rum and coffee for about tuppence or thruppence , then he always used to er go to his mother 's for his breakfast and er he used to go down and see all the men start off and then , then slip over to his mother 's , she lived on the Road and er she , for years and years this went on that he had his break he never had his breakfast at home he 'd start off going down there and come back to his mother 's , but he always stopped at the White Hart for his rum and coffee |
| 7 | Mr got his handkerchief in his top pocket , you see , my father always used to only he 's standing a bit that way . |
| 8 | that the people that are supporting the project manager also ought to be encouraged not to just to keep their blinkers on , and work within their own discipline , and say , I 've nothing to worry about , I work to the blue book , I work to the code of practice , I work to the British Standard . |
| 9 | The phrase really ought to be changed , though , to read better ‘ Windows 3.0 than Windows ’ 3.0 . |
| 10 | The scrutiny of a presidential candidate 's private life never used to be so intense . |
| 11 | But I mean er , a man in his state of health never ought to be left to look after a woman like that , but different if it 's an ablebodied |
| 12 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 13 | When he died , the legacy had not yet vested , and so the trust too ought to be ineffective . |
| 14 | Failing this , the section either ought to be amended to provide , as does s.61 ( below ) , for persons to sue where they have been adversely affected , or , as is the case in the US , where they can show that they have traded during the same time period as the insider . |