Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] [prep] [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 Tuesday must of been Tuesday if it was the other day
6 The Phoenix used to be such a good pub .
7 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 ?
8 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 .
9 Watford used to be a team the big clubs feared in Cup football , but our record in recent seasons has been poor .
10 it was in my training , she but she had n't but your mother who never had before I could rely on her from a little child , I said stay there , when I came back , if I came back half an hour later , she 'd still of been there Linda would of been
11 I did n't bother to ask whether Safranski ought to be consulted .
12 Finally , it suggested that interconnection with the Republic of Ireland ought to be re-eastablished .
13 David Burt , as Macheath , is a convincing cock-of-the-walk , even if the ideal Macheath ought to be more debonair .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Its western end is now at Marble Arch , where Tyburn used to be .
17 Jane used to be a girl guide and gained her Baden Powell Trefoil .
18 Good Friday in East Anglia used to be the traditional day for planting potatoes .
19 In his BBC days , Hanna used to be overweight and combative .
20 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 .
21 The Bank of England used to be the City 's leader ; in recent times it has seemed content to be its cheerleader .
22 Do you remember that George and Mildred used to be on telly in comedy ?
23 The cattle of Scotland used to be of many colours but predominantly black and of the Highland or Galloway type .
24 What February used to be sort of reckoned for rain did n't it ?
25 What IBM used to be , Microsoft is .
26 The 13th century Coaley Millpond used to be full of crystal clear water .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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