Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British bikes used to be kings of the road . |
| 2 | I do remember where our old kitchen used to be . ’ |
| 3 | Any theological reflection on human work and social praxis ought to be rooted in this fundamental affirmation . |
| 4 | When I stayed overnight at my nan 's , which I often did , I actually slept in a room next to where the old monastery used to be . |
| 5 | First , there is a safe harbour which is typically available for firms contemplating merger , and it is unclear why a more generous harbour ought to be offered to certain types of corporate activity , such as merger , than others , such as joint ventures ( see Brodley , 1990 ) . |
| 6 | The scientists and philosophers — and I think it 's significant that scientific study used to be called natural philosophy — they think in a big way , about yesterday and tomorrow , about the whole great sweep of mankind in the world . |
| 7 | It probably means that the average family is a much more relaxed affair than the traditional Scottish household used to be , but it goes some way towards explaining the numbers of children at risk in our society from adults outside the home , as well as from their own undisciplined emotions . |
| 8 | I think the hon. Lady ought to be clear about what she means by assistance . |
| 9 | They reflected a concept that had been current for a number of years , that experiments in planning free zones ought to be devised ( Banham et al . , |
| 10 | All the young men were bucks — a young buck in the old days used to be a gentleman . |
| 11 | But trouble-makers in the old days used to be left there until they died . |
| 12 | Is n't that exactly where the old shrine used to be , in those woods ? |
| 13 | Among the issues raised by this case were how the court was to go about deciding exactly what powers Parliament had intended to give to the GLC in relation to London Transport ; whether the GLC owed a duty to its ratepayers not to spend the rates on large subsidies for travellers ; whether the GLC was entitled to implement its cheap fares policy just because it had been a major issue in the recent GLC elections ; the extent to which central government ought to control local authority spending ; whether and to what extent public transport ought to be treated as a public service or , on the other hand , as a business which has to break even or make a profit . |
| 14 | He said that he thought all the scientific evidence ought to be agreed by both sides before the trial . " |
| 15 | Anyway , scientific evidence ought to be tested like any other evidence . " |
| 16 | They had er his name was Jimmy they had er well one used t one old gentleman used to be a yes and his name was Jimmy , the waiter , that 's right I , I get a , I have to think because I , I sometimes get mixed up and I 'm at Cambridge and you see it was a long time ago , you see , so , since I was young and I was then . |
| 17 | These young persons ' attitude to the game reminds me of how the old game used to be — when there were no leagues and no cup competitions . |
| 18 | The volume of data being created is continuing to explode at a rate seemingly far in excess of what a diminishing workforce ought to be able to produce . |
| 19 | The first parts of these Latin names used to be used in naming cations . |
| 20 | For example , mildly depressed and tired old people used to be given amphetamines . |
| 21 | ‘ These louts who , long ago , should have been smacked on the behind by their parents ’ excited Sir Marcus Lipton , who was something of a Parliamentary dove on these occasions , no less than Mr Gerald Nabarro who considered that ‘ a proper policy ought to be to ‘ whack the thugs ' ’ ’ . |
| 22 | I can not therefore deny that in this context a settled and preponderant public demand ought to be taken into account or that at a certain point it would have to prevail . |
| 23 | The universal feeling used to be that such books belonged in the libraries they came from . |
| 24 | You might think that , that 's a book that social scientists ought to be primarily interested in . |
| 25 | That Jurors ought to be duely impannelled and returned and Jurors which passe upon men in tryalls for high Treason ought to be free holders . |
| 26 | The most popular size used to be the 4½in ( 108mm ) square tile , still available in a limited number of ranges , but displaced from the No 1 position by larger 152mm ( 6in ) square tiles , which are quicker to fix ( you need only 44 to cover a square metre of wall , compared with 86 of the smaller tiles , and there 's less grouting to do as well ) . |
| 27 | Durkheim , by contrast , maintained a considerably less rosy picture of how social life used to be . |
| 28 | ‘ East Coker ’ states ‘ old men ought to be explorers . ’ |
| 29 | Rather than reducing the level of risk taking in general , however , the effect of a requirement to obtain adequate information ought to be that the chances of directors discriminating between legitimate and illegitimate risks are improved . |
| 30 | Old George used to be an old he was always keen to be executor for anybody you know . |