Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If any of the Lords or great ‘ Herren ’ in England wished to lay out an new garden or remake an old one , Mr. Miller would always show them how it ought to be done . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , she said a lot of good things about how housework and things were essential social work — you know , saying it was work , hard work , servicing other people , not that airy fairy labour of love stuff , and how it ought to be recognised , and how it was because women were seen as wives and mothers that they got low wages , no money when they were at home looking after small kids . |
| 3 | Yet we do have rough-and-ready scales of value ; certain impulses regularly win out over others and , if the toss is there to be argued over , we will claim that this is how it ought to be . |
| 4 | But the right letters are there , even if they 're in the wrong order , so he knows how it ought to be spelled , up to a point . |
| 5 | And maybe that 's how it used to be — but the person you are today is far removed and different from the individual you were a year or so ago . |
| 6 | And erm that 's how it used to be so o obviously you had to pay like that but er I can remember the the Coop coming to . |
| 7 | And the junior school would sit on the floor in the front and that 's how it used to be arranged . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you remember how it used to be between us , Jessamy ? ’ he went on in that same low and almost hypnotic voice . |
| 9 | I do n't remember how it used to be between us , Julius . ’ |
| 10 | That 's how it used to be years ago . |
| 11 | ‘ It is sad to see all this emptiness , and remember how it used to be . ’ |
| 12 | That 's how it used to be though |
| 13 | However it ought to be possible to bring the reasons for it out into the light , and by doing so to show that whatever may be said of Tolkien 's view of reality , it was neither escapist nor thoughtless . |
| 14 | The apostrophe in ‘ Please Respect Owner 's Rights ’ is n't where it ought to be . |
| 15 | Where 's the ray-gun gone ? ’ she asked , looking to where it used to be on the side wall . |
| 16 | So that is a Jacquard , and that 's an electronic Jacquard , means you can do all sorts of different patterns now , where it used to be limited it 's unlimited now . |
| 17 | Oh yes , oh yes each side and er there , some , a few came round erm where it used to be the old picture house , a few came around up as far as Rushbrooks and erm further up towards erm now then The Central , there 's a school that they used to call it The Central but erm |
| 18 | The air fares have gone up , , cos she 's got relatives there and she said where it used to be about . |
| 19 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |