Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] to be [adj] " 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 If so , this November 's mayoral election ought to be timely .
3 That Elections of Members of Parliament ought to be free .
4 Figure 1.1 on page 4 drew attention to six qualities which the whole of the curriculum ought to be encouraging .
5 To break the circle someone has to decide , by making a value-judgment , whether or not any particular function ought to be subject to public law .
6 Everybody agrees that accounts ought to be useful .
7 Some will say that , when there is doubt whether an apparent refusal of consent is valid in circumstances of urgent necessity , the decision of a doctor acting in good faith ought to be conclusive .
8 Dragons ought to be big and green and clawed and exotic and firebreathing — big and green with long sharp …
9 Well I think that schools ought to be open .
10 But such a future , Eliot wrote , was not one in which he or his readers ought to be interested .
11 Pension funds ought to be immune from the performance of the company to which they relate , so that employees ' pensions are safeguarded even if the company is experiencing difficulties .
12 The citizen ought to be able to find the basic law , the principal law , in statutory form .
13 Classification of functions fell into disrepute because the classifications were often applied mechanically and without it being asked whether judicial review ought to be available , or whether the rules of natural justice ought to apply as a matter of fairness or policy .
14 The pull 's fairly heavy , but someone with your shoulders ought to be able to manage . ’
15 Psychologism , through its influence in marriage guidance and churches , and also through its effects in the world of work — in personnel management , for example — is able to link the two spheres in a way religion used to be able to do but can not do any longer .
16 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 ?
17 Life insurers used to be able to show any profit from selling a bond in the year in which they traded it .
18 Winter injection used to be popular , until experts found that wet soil often did n't absorb the slurry properly and increased the danger of run-off .
19 Did , did the racecourse used to be busy ?
20 I think the hon. Lady ought to be clear about what she means by assistance .
21 The second supposition is ideological , that ownership ought to be individual .
22 They accepted that the state had a duty to uphold morality and that private morality ought to be subject to the law as it affected society .
23 Again he follows Aristotle in believing that each child ought to be male and that a female is the result of misadventure .
24 taking out loans and borrowing and I do n't think that this County Council ought to be defensive in the slightest about having a tool such as borrowing available to us in terms of financial management .
25 Now this may sound like fatuous bluster but suspicion of businessmen ought to be understandable in an era of commerce made squalid by stock-market muggings on a grand scale .
26 ( These two functions ought to be separate .
27 The colour range used to be wide , as in other Scottish cattle , including red-and-white , solid red , dun , dun-and-white , yellow , solid black , blue , grey , grey-and-white , brown-and-white , brindle , white with blue or black on the neck , black riggit ( finchback ) , brockle-faced and even belted .
28 Their influence used to be great .
29 The chapels used to be full , the chapels used to be full .
30 The chapels used to be full , the chapels used to be full .
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