Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what if the parent is not happy with this and believes that their child really ought to be doing more homework ? |
| 2 | if you worked abroad , any tax relief that might be associated with your periods overseas ought to be considered . |
| 3 | Money always used to be a problem in my own life . |
| 4 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 5 | Mr John Bates for the prosecution [ when six football supporters were charged ] said : ‘ While a football match years ago used to be regarded as one of the perks of the job by the police , it is now the reverse . |
| 6 | I remember I remember years ago used to be , |
| 7 | However , who 's to say that this figure would n't be as open to exaggeration as amp output always used to be ? |
| 8 | The moorlands also used to be a larder for great raptors : hen harrier and short-eared owl , quartering the heather in endless search of prey . |
| 9 | But Miller 's achievement was to liberate the District from feelings of guilt that the bulk of its provision really ought to be Tutorial Classes for manual workers in political and social studies . |
| 10 | that the people that are supporting the project manager also ought to be encouraged not to just to keep their blinkers on , and work within their own discipline , and say , I 've nothing to worry about , I work to the blue book , I work to the code of practice , I work to the British Standard . |
| 11 | The phrase really ought to be changed , though , to read better ‘ Windows 3.0 than Windows ’ 3.0 . |
| 12 | Servants too ought to be diligent and refrain from gaming and other dissolute pursuits , although at the same time they were fully entitled to ‘ competent wages and clothing with trew payments of the same ’ . |
| 13 | The scrutiny of a presidential candidate 's private life never used to be so intense . |
| 14 | I think those points perhaps ought to be taken up at the General Purposes Committee since er we have the problem of their decisions . |
| 15 | But I mean er , a man in his state of health never ought to be left to look after a woman like that , but different if it 's an ablebodied |
| 16 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 17 | And rail railways really ought to be far better developed than they are in this country , eh . |
| 18 | When he died , the legacy had not yet vested , and so the trust too ought to be ineffective . |
| 19 | Failing this , the section either ought to be amended to provide , as does s.61 ( below ) , for persons to sue where they have been adversely affected , or , as is the case in the US , where they can show that they have traded during the same time period as the insider . |