Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it is , ’ he insisted , as if this somehow ought to be the best news she 'd ever heard in her life . |
| 2 | the trouble is though when you have these meetings you go and people say well I do n't agree with this and I do n't agree with that and somebody says well this is n't the matter for the P T A this is a matter for the governors and then when you try and , like Gary I 'll go and approach with the governors , surely this is n't a matter for the governors , this really ought to be , you know , the , |
| 3 | ‘ This never used to be here , ’ said Bellamy . |
| 4 | That just used to be a mud pile there . |
| 5 | That always used to be the case of course . |
| 6 | That always used to be a fortnight to three weeks to unload a ship but this one ship , that was called , I remember that was called the lovely ship and that had been bombed , that had a bomb drop right on the . |
| 7 | We used to watch it on Saturday afternoons , that always used to be on , wrestling . |
| 8 | White never used to be a predominant Goshiki colour , but now it is realised that a snow-white base admirably sets off the other shades . |
| 9 | That surely ought to be what we are discussing today . |
| 10 | Twelve o'clock used to be a great well as far as I can remember . |
| 11 | He once shocked Bonar Law , who took a rather more respectful view of money matters , by saying that ‘ a man who made a million quick ought to be not in the Lords but in gaol ’ . |
| 12 | That never used to be a fault of his , running off at the mouth . |