Example sentences of "[n mass] [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew where the landing aircraft ought to be , her mental picture of the aerodrome traffic constantly being updated by the radio calls from other aircraft . |
| 2 | The offspring ought to be so put to that 's perfectly true . |
| 3 | Multimedia used to be defined as a fancy slide show that you sat and watched . |
| 4 | SEE , HEAR , LOOK , LEARN Multimedia used to be described as a solution looking for a problem . |
| 5 | Furthermore , the government ( Minister of Land , 1966 , 3 ) has not only sanctioned this growth when , as long ago as 1966 , they stated ‘ that townspeople ought to be able to spend their leisure in the countryside if they want to ’ but following a report of the House of Lords ( HL Select Committee 1973 ) has also endorsed and encouraged recreational uses when they accepted ( Secretary of State for the Environment , 1975 , 1 ) that ‘ recreation should be regarded as one of the community 's everyday needs and that provision for it is part of the social services ’ . |
| 6 | from where about , where the butchers used to be |
| 7 | All the grouse used to be brought to my dad , who was awful particular about displaying them . |
| 8 | Sheep used to be of great importance to the British economy . |
| 9 | I think all the staff ought to be able to rely ( as they can in colleges of FE ) on this full-time professional service , particularly where there are nearly 1500 customers and 80 members of staff . |
| 10 | It 's just not true , and I think people ought to be warned . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ People ought to be able to decide whether they want to take risks on the basis of information which gives them an idea of how much risk there is , ’ says Helen Peggs , ‘ but at the moment the information they get is often distorted . ’ |
| 12 | So really people ought to be trained to take their engine oil out |
| 13 | ‘ I think that people ought to be upset , ’ he wrote ; ‘ I think that life is so important and , in its workings , so upsetting that nobody should be spared . ’ |
| 14 | The first matter is difficult to assess , since a judgment has to be made as to how many people ought to be in receipt of representation . |
| 15 | However , Mill was against a secret ballot , Mill thought votes ought to be cast publicly and the reason for this is that he thought people ought to be voting on their view of what is right and so therefore they ought to be publicly accountable . |
| 16 | that he thinks that erm of all of these forced motivations class interest is the most damaging and he argues there 's a remedy for this , we 'll see why it 's a remedy in a minute , that certain people ought to be given more than one vote so that although everyone should have some votes , not everyone should have the same number of votes . |
| 17 | She said there were speed restrictions on the A167 at Aycliffe , Croxdale and Chilton , and Ferryhill people ought to be given the same protection . |
| 18 | Yes , you have to dig down as far as you can to get the roots in properly but , you know , it should be just the depth of one spade , so most people ought to be able to dig a hole that size . |
| 19 | The message which Balfour sent was that , ‘ He is also of the opinion that it will be a serious danger if the Socialist Party is allowed to assume office at the present time and he thinks every means ought to be taken to avert the Parliamentary defeat which would bring them into office in your place . |
| 20 | It was , in fact , the once-trendy Manhattan disco Studio 54 , where people used to be turned away for not being Beautiful . |
| 21 | For example , mildly depressed and tired old people used to be given amphetamines . |
| 22 | First , he said , the administration was more actively engaged in trade policy than the Bush people used to be . |
| 23 | Maybe we just are n't as clever as people used to be ; maybe the Nintendo Gameboy and daytime television ( both , significantly , introduced in the past six or seven years ) have ruined thousands of careers , not just my own . ’ |
| 24 | but anyway , erm people used to be very helpful and erm |
| 25 | Of course I must add a , a word of warning here , because whereas once upon a time many people used to be able to ring the Weather Centres or a Met Office to get their own personal forecast , which was very nice , we enjoyed doing this , it has now got to the stage where so many people are trying to ring us that we just can not deal with all the enquiries personally , and we 're looking into ways and means of erm providing forecasts of this sort of nature , they 're general sort of nature , by other means , such as radio and television . |
| 26 | Oh that 's where the gas works used to be . |
| 27 | I felt sickly occasionally but I felt really happy throughout my pregnancy.I used to be quite shy but since I found out I was pregnant I felt very confident in myself . |