Example sentences of "[conj] [ex0] [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centre is One , the outer fringe is Six ; zones where there used to be neighbourhoods . |
| 2 | Where there used to be a great big island . |
| 3 | Only in Mile End , where there used to be a fair crop of breweries , could you find a good pub with a good pint of beer . |
| 4 | Both the farmers and the conservationists agree that there ought to be a debate . |
| 5 | That is why the game is called a dilemma , why it seems so maddeningly paradoxical , and why it has even been proposed that there ought to be a law against it . |
| 6 | In 1836 , the Bill now having been passed , he suggested to Gladstone that there ought to be more enfranchisement to cure the effects of it ; if the pyramid were extended at the base and the lower classes given some power , this would counter the preponderance of the manufacturers . |
| 7 | Dirac worked out mathematical equations that indicated that there ought to be a counterpart to the electron but having a positive electrical charge . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the low sea level would have killed existing corals , which do not survive above low tide level as a rule , so that there ought to be discontinuities in the reefs , and , if those who believe in progressively lower interglacial sea levels are correct , the reefs should exhibit a terraced or stepped form . |
| 9 | Such persistence is not easy because there is nothing to go on except the general hunch that there ought to be an opportunity somewhere about . |
| 10 | It was said that there ought to be more sharing and swapping , in the name of change , equality and the exploration of the self . |
| 11 | The spirit of the Rome Treaty would suggest that there ought to be competition between airlines in respect of air fares on scheduled services between member states . |
| 12 | It may be at the end of end of all this that you you are nevertheless convinced that there ought to be a policy . |
| 13 | I think that there ought to be a proper company wide inst or certainly U K wide instruction going out so that everybody 's aware of the changes |
| 14 | Indeed that is something that bears closer examination because there are many people who believe that the relationship between a client and an auditor can be too close and that there ought to be a respectable distance between them . |
| 15 | It seems to me that there ought to be to edges to a campaign to make medicines safer . |
| 16 | One theory is that there used to be a group of cattle to the west of the Pennines and in the south west known loosely as the Red Wessex . |
| 17 | It would seem to stand more peacefully now when considering that there used to be much bustle and slamming of doors , the shouts and cries of a houseful of children and the ailing Reverend Tennyson . |
| 18 | The assumption of this explanation is , of course , that there used to be many couples who wanted a divorce but could not have one because their case was not covered by any legislation . |
| 19 | Before it got burnt and that there used to be a dressing rooms there . |
| 20 | Oh of course down there the bottom and that there used to be a lot of erm there used to be some lodging houses what they call lodging houses for people what 's got nowhere to go you know , you used to sleep and . |
| 21 | yes , I suppose actually really you see it 's like the network evenings that there used to be in that ghastly little pub at the West End |
| 22 | ‘ Hmmnn , more bruising than there ought to be . |
| 23 | The magic solution has lost its power — although if you want another performance just re-heat and re-cool the beaker … to be supersaturated means to have more dissolved than there ought to be … the cold supersaturated solution almost literally did not know what to do . |
| 24 | This means that at a time of crisis , such as death , there are fewer people to turn to than there used to be when it was the norm to live much nearer to kinfolk . |
| 25 | There were more of them than there used to be , he was sure of it . |
| 26 | Yet ( while there are more lifers than there used to be ) most of them have a great deal to lose . |
| 27 | This attitude has changed somewhat over the years and there are now fewer homes than there used to be . |
| 28 | Although further London spine points have been introduced and the amount of extra pay given to people working in London has therefore increased , there is more flexibility in the system than there used to be . |
| 29 | At a time when the school curriculum is becoming increasingly prescriptive , when there seems less flexibility than there used to be , it might seem difficult to set up collaborative teaching projects . |
| 30 | There 's more violence on the buses than there used to be . |