Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb mod] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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1 | THE only predictable thing about Chelsea used to be their unpredictability , but you ca n't even bank on that right now . |
2 | Such developments would necessarily affect both the structure of arts-based courses , but more significantly in the context of this article , would require the methods of assessment used to be tailored to the short term aims of each module . |
3 | I share it with Menzies Campbell , who of course used to be an Olympic runner , so I shall have to be quick to keep up . |
4 | That Elections of Members of Parliament ought to be free . |
5 | The concerns of administration used to be the maintenance of law and regulation , the sustaining of working relationships with voluntary organizations and denominational bodies and the planning and maintenance of programmes across a range of responsibilities . |
6 | There was a little discussion about the length of time a perfectly made cup of tea ought to be brewed and a little anguish because there was no milk to offer the guests . |
7 | The pre-eminent location for this type of holding used to be Panama , but its political tribulations have damaged confidence . |
8 | Magnetic materials made up of nanocrystals ought to be better because their magnetism can be switched on and off more swiftly . |
9 | The cattle of Scotland used to be of many colours but predominantly black and of the Highland or Galloway type . |
10 | In January 1928 he was invited back to speak at the Cambridge Union , on the motion that the Church of England ought to be disestablished . |
11 | The Bank of England used to be the City 's leader ; in recent times it has seemed content to be its cheerleader . |
12 | Finch , however , denounced the 1300 perambulation as ‘ false and erroneous ’ , and coerced the Grand Jury and Forest officers into returning a verdict ‘ that the Meetes and Boundes of the Forrest of Deane ought to be according to the Perambulations made ’ in 1228 and 1282 . |
13 | Finally , it suggested that interconnection with the Republic of Ireland ought to be re-eastablished . |
14 | of course until they notify and get it exempted which is always opened to do it 's always been opened of course to notify an answer when they get a bit of clearance should of been |
15 | Waddesdon 's 165 acres of gardens used to be tended by 120 gardeners bound to silence in daylight . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | It is smaller than Sardinia ( just 22 acres , or roughly 13 football pitches , against Sardinia 's 16,000 square miles , or six million pitches ) which for purposes of containment ought to be counted pure gain . |
18 | What we can not countenance though sir , is any widening o of the route that they seek to go down , to have these sites included in the greenbelt , and that 's to say to entertain the argument that the whole of Skelton ought to be washed-over . |
19 | At a rough guess , Pierremont Gardens today stands where the real gardens of Pierremont used to be . |
20 | Oh yes , oh yes , oh mum went there for years and years every Saturday yeah , and as I say the wagonettes used to erm be stationed up by Albion Street , to take er shopping and , and er and Rushbrooks used to be the big confectioners then , that 's on the , it used to be on the corner of erm Albion , well there 's a market there , an indoor market now is n't there yeah they were the er the big confectioners Rushbrooks , and er bakers and confectioners and er all the barrels of flour used to be , you could see all that going in you know but er I do n't know whether it is , am I making it interesting , is it interesting for you ? |
21 | Now the taxation of the plaintiff 's bill of costs , came before master er and er in his taxation , it seems , and I 'm , I think I 'm right in saying it , it seems that erm there is no substantial dispute as to the particular items in the various bills of costs with which he was concerned , it maybe that if there were a discrepancy , he has , he dealt with it and nothing has been said before me today , er to suggest that the figures appearing in the bill of costs ought to be varied and accordingly I have not er have to consider the detail items in the bill of costs , the only issue I did n't decide is whether master was correct in disallowing interest for the period that he did , er Mr for the plaintiff says that he was wrong er that there was no good reason for disallowing him any interest and that accordingly I on this appeal should erm discharge or reverse that part of taxing order as disallowed interest . |
22 | Whether these types of initiative ought to be included within the development theme is arguable , but labour-supply considerations may be seen as constraining urban output . |
23 | It seems to me that formulation of the precise grounds upon which overpayments of tax ought to be recoverable and of any exceptions to the right of recovery , may involve nice considerations of policy which are properly the province of Parliament and are not suitable for consideration by the courts . |
24 | The same kind of accident used to be common with gliders , and the pilots could never remember anything after the first bounce . |
25 | Whereas the test designers suggest that a teacher without specialist knowledge might give the test as a screening device to identify the existence of articulation problems , the analysis of the nature of the errors and the appropriate forms of intervention ought to be left for an expert in phonological analysis . |
26 | A quarter of trains used to be more than ten minutes late . |
27 | A quarter of trains used to be more than ten minutes late . |
28 | In his speech er in that debate the honourable member for Edinburgh central and the bench er in his place today , er welcomed the government 's acceptance of Sir Thomas ' and the select committee 's recommendation and agreed er that it was in his words , important that the statutory duty of auditors ought to be clear so that er to use his colourful phrase , if whistles are to be blown they 're to be blown without doubt . |
29 | erm I think that some sort of offer ought to be made . |
30 | But the mainstream of calligraphy used to be a movement that firmly set modernism aside and as a result virtually vanished as a serious art school discipline after the 1960s . |