Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [modal v] to be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As soon as the Trust got Brownsea the regulations about the discharge of sewage changes , they had endless trouble with the water supply , and now they 're having to find £300,000 to repair the sea wall , so I feel that , instead of being praised for being associated with getting Brownsea , I probably ought to be cursed for putting the Trust to so much expense . |
| 2 | ‘ I really ought to be going , ’ said Penelope , ‘ what with having a long journey and work tomorrow . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I really ought to be more careful . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Now I really ought to be getting back to the apartment . ’ |
| 5 | Yes I often used to be accused of being Welsh but it is different . |
| 6 | I never used to be able to read good before I went into prison : I used to get into the book and think , ‘ What 's that word ? ’ and then cut the word down to size until I made up what it was . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes — I never used to be tidy , you know , but since the children grew up I 'm less able to tolerate mess — and Christmas is so messy ! ’ |
| 8 | But operations uniformly repeated , motions which succeed one another without interruption , are the causes which alone ought to be the foundation of our reasoning " . |
| 9 | But , while he is of Le Patron Mange Ici school ( which always used to be the sign of a good restaurant ) , I ca n't see that it would have been particularly good for business here . |
| 10 | I respectfully agree with the judge that that would be an inappropriate way of achieving the result which clearly ought to be achieved , which is that a child abducted in the way this little boy was should be able to return home pending a decision as to whether he lives with his father or with his mother . |
| 11 | Inevitably the system has not been rigorously followed ; thus in the Great Bear the brightest star is not Alpha , but Epsilon , which really ought to be fifth , while in Orion , Rigel ( Beta Orionis ) is brighter than Betelgeux ( Alpha ) . |
| 12 | The pharmacien came out from behind his counter , sat her down , removed her sandal with the tenderness of a foot-fetishist , examined her heel , cleaned it with a piece of gauze , stood up , turned to me gravely , as if there were something which really ought to be kept from my wife , and quietly explained , ‘ That , Monsieur , is a blister . ’ |
| 13 | Not only is it ably led by the shrewd Gordon Taylor ( who perhaps ought to be running the FA ) , the players ' union also has a record which other unions would be proud of . |
| 14 | You always used to be a lot quicker than this , Jessamy . ’ |
| 15 | However , accountants , who also ought to be concerned with the concepts of accountability listed under Divisions I and II , have not traditionally played a major role . |
| 16 | Mavis detached herself from the group and looked as though she thought she probably ought to be making an effort to take charge . |
| 17 | She really ought to be back by now . ’ |
| 18 | She really ought to be thinking of work instead of calling Fernando Serra 's bluff . |
| 19 | Hence , the leaden delivery of some Euro-platitudes , by a woman who really ought to be able to do a better job of reading other people 's speeches after 40 years of doing little else , carries more political import than anything else that has been said about Europe since the election . |
| 20 | Let me put it to you this way you know as well as I do people who really ought to be doing something else other than teaching . |
| 21 | On the other hand we got into a discussion yesterday as to whether the medical profession is n't devoting too much of its energy just to keeping people alive who really ought to be dead . |
| 22 | Instead of having to come home from work and worry about wrapping up the Christmas presents , or writing letters to friends , or having a long conversation with someone in the family who needs a bit of support , and fitting all that in after the children have gone to bed and the supper 's been washed up and you really ought to be reading papers for tomorrow 's meeting , I know I have a chunk of time when I can get on with doing all that . |
| 23 | And another thing , you really ought to be venturing further afield ; travelling or doing something more challenging now and therefore perhaps you need a gentle prod to remind you that life is only , after all , what you make it . |
| 24 | You really ought to be wearing a ring , Lucinda . |
| 25 | One megabyte is totally inadequate for running Windows ( version 3.1 requires a minimum of 2Mb ) and you really ought to be thinking about slamming in the RAM . |
| 26 | doing it Roger is that we sit here and we say to our clients , ah but you really ought to be coming to us because we 're railway experts . |
| 27 | You even used to be able to bring them here with you . |
| 28 | She never used to be tired . |
| 29 | She felt like screaming that she never used to be like that . |
| 30 | YOU NEVER USED TO BE SO SELF-CRITICAL , CAPTAIN . |