Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [vb mod] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appeals can be made on several grounds , for example , that permission ought to be granted , that permission has been granted and that no permission is required . |
| 2 | Cheeses of this kind used to be known in country-house and home-farm dairy cookery as napkin cheeses . |
| 3 | ‘ This horse used to be so difficult , ’ he stated , ‘ and John 's worked wonders with him . ’ |
| 4 | This condition ought to be seen by all to be quite ridiculous and unacceptable , but it is all too common . |
| 5 | However , in general questions about control in management , some reference ought to be made to the increasing number of mathematical and other techniques which are now available to management in the execution of their planning and controlling activities . |
| 6 | ‘ If it is anything like this room used to be , Lady Lavinia , ’ Theda said wryly , ‘ I fear that would be impossible . ’ |
| 7 | This room used to be the bike sheds . |
| 8 | ‘ This place used to be the Turkish administrative headquarters in Jaffa . |
| 9 | The industry in this town used to be great but everything 's shutting . |
| 10 | This footbridge used to be the only way to cross to the other platform . |
| 11 | This footbridge used to be the only way to cross to the other platform . |
| 12 | This city used to be villages ; now it 's castles under siege . |
| 13 | How many people think this project ought to be stopped right now before it goes any further ? ’ |
| 14 | However , if the Revenue 's approach represents a new hardening of attitudes that will affect all small family companies , then this matter ought to be explored at a high level by the appropriate professional body or be taken through the courts by a consortium of practitioners . |
| 15 | It has been argued ( 12 ) that the use of arable land for livestock production is wasteful and this activity ought to be confined to the ‘ upland ’ areas . |
| 16 | Further along the village another house used to be the ‘ cookhouse ’ and game room for them — the meals must have been cold by the time they arrived at the table of Londesborough Lodge ! |
| 17 | This guy used to be a skinhead and sniff glue in Green Island , which is just outside where I used to live . |
| 18 | There is an alternative to either of these courses which may be worth considering and that is that the Government should take the line that they have come to the conclusion that , while some restriction ought to be made in the infliction of the death penalty , the time has not yet come for its complete abolition . |
| 19 | ‘ This house used to be known as the Seven-Mile House a long time ago before our family come to live here . |
| 20 | This had been quite difficult and the Gnomes had scratched their heads a good deal , because , although people did not openly refer to it , everyone knew that Flame 's father was Fael-Inis and it had meant a lot of worrisome discussions as to whether this fact ought to be openly acknowledged , or whether it might be discourteous to draw attention to it . |
| 21 | ‘ I imagine so ; there was certainly a big turnover … perhaps the answer to that question ought to be that I do not know . |
| 22 | Again he follows Aristotle in believing that each child ought to be male and that a female is the result of misadventure . |
| 23 | Now that 's something that erm particularly that last point , that audit committees that are established in most efficient companies want to look at and I come back to the point that audit ought to be looked at as something that assists companies in efficiency as well as a mechanism for detecting fraud and yet the government does n't appear to be examining that . |
| 24 | The second supposition is ideological , that ownership ought to be individual . |
| 25 | He wanted his prose to be objective , scientific , devoid of personal presence , devoid of opinions ; so he decided that poetry ought to be written according to the same principles . |
| 26 | Clearly , each such area ought to be able to make some contribution to analysing George and Marie 's problems . |
| 27 | Since decisions about how much R&D ought to be done turn on conjectures about the outcomes of competition in final product markets , co-operative R&D ventures will certainly involve at least some sharing of information on product market conditions . |
| 28 | Such devotion used to be the preserve of Tolkien addicts , but now authors such as Eddings , Donaldson , Pratchett , Tad Williams and Robert Jordan have their own ardent fan followings . |
| 29 | If the investor is to syndicate , the management and its advisers should try to play some part in the selection of additional investors ; if an additional director is to be appointed by the syndicate , that director ought to be selected for the experience and talent he can bring to Newco . |
| 30 | Neither group ought to be disappointed by what they hear . |