Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOREMAN : ‘ Holyfield ought to be scared because the only person that can stop Lewis winning the title now is Lewis . |
| 2 | Montano reacts to this inversion of the truth with the correct response ( assuming it to be true ) which Iago has elicited from him , namely that Othello ought to be told ; at which point Iago demurs , with the pretence of friendship : From that declaration , after the ensuing brawl , Iago has built himself a platform from which he can now act the perfect friend : As we alone know , to get the truth from what Iago says about Cassio one must simply invert everything he says . |
| 3 | If that 's the case , then the Panda Selecta ought to be a popular choice for many town buyers , given that it 's less than £6,000 . |
| 4 | Where a party can only be liable if negligent , a clause such as that in White v Warwick ought to be enough to protect against liability , even if parallel liability for failure to take reasonable care could be imposed in tort and contract ( Alderslade v Hendon Laundry Ltd [ 1945 ] KB 189 ) . |
| 5 | The Phoenix used to be such a good pub . |
| 6 | erm she was hefty though and her sister Ann used to be enormous years ago this is , and erm she went on a , a diet , I do n't know what , how , how she lost the weight but she did and I , I had n't seen her for some years and I remember her coming to the factory this day , and she came in and she , she used to do er her flower shop , she used to do flower arrangements and the girls at work would order them you know ? |
| 7 | ISC used to be run as a state-within-a-state by James Guerin , its founder , until his forced departure from the group in May . |
| 8 | ‘ Watford used to be a team the big clubs feared in Cup football , but our record in recent seasons has been poor . |
| 9 | I did n't bother to ask whether Safranski ought to be consulted . |
| 10 | Finally , it suggested that interconnection with the Republic of Ireland ought to be re-eastablished . |
| 11 | David Burt , as Macheath , is a convincing cock-of-the-walk , even if the ideal Macheath ought to be more debonair . |
| 12 | In January 1928 he was invited back to speak at the Cambridge Union , on the motion that the Church of England ought to be disestablished . |
| 13 | Finch , however , denounced the 1300 perambulation as ‘ false and erroneous ’ , and coerced the Grand Jury and Forest officers into returning a verdict ‘ that the Meetes and Boundes of the Forrest of Deane ought to be according to the Perambulations made ’ in 1228 and 1282 . |
| 14 | Its western end is now at Marble Arch , where Tyburn used to be . |
| 15 | Jane used to be a girl guide and gained her Baden Powell Trefoil . |
| 16 | Good Friday in East Anglia used to be the traditional day for planting potatoes . |
| 17 | In his BBC days , Hanna used to be overweight and combative . |
| 18 | England used to be a country with red pillar boxes and policemen with red noses and decent law-abiding citizens you could eat your dinner off . |
| 19 | The Bank of England used to be the City 's leader ; in recent times it has seemed content to be its cheerleader . |
| 20 | Do you remember that George and Mildred used to be on telly in comedy ? |
| 21 | The cattle of Scotland used to be of many colours but predominantly black and of the Highland or Galloway type . |
| 22 | What February used to be sort of reckoned for rain did n't it ? |
| 23 | What IBM used to be , Microsoft is . |
| 24 | The 13th century Coaley Millpond used to be full of crystal clear water . |
| 25 | That Jurors ought to be duely impannelled and returned and Jurors which passe upon men in tryalls for high Treason ought to be free holders . |
| 26 | Coventry v Southampton Having just won at Liverpool for the first time , Coventry ought to be in the mood to take Southampton even though the latter have lost only once in a dozen games . |
| 27 | She had read that to be an artist it was necessary to have known personal suffering , and , while she was rather sceptical of this idea , if there was any truth in it , then Faye ought to be on her way to the status of a Michelangelo . |
| 28 | What Mr is seeking to do now is to raise a much wider issue , it seems to us , and that is that Skelton ought to be washed-over in its entirety with greenbelt notation . |
| 29 | What we can not countenance though sir , is any widening o of the route that they seek to go down , to have these sites included in the greenbelt , and that 's to say to entertain the argument that the whole of Skelton ought to be washed-over . |
| 30 | the hon. Member for Hemsworth ought to be more careful in his support for Boycott , or he will fall out with many of his own right hon. and hon. Friends . |