Example sentences of "[subord] they [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in their interests to make work for the dental profession and sell vitamin C , not to let it get about that simply by keeping their hands where they ought to be young people could have healthy teeth and gums for life . |
| 2 | This enabled him to look forward with confidence to continued improvements which would put the British plants back at the top of the performance league , where they used to be , and where they belonged . |
| 3 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 4 | Odette and the bairn still across the street just where they used to be . " |
| 5 | Where they used to be frozen and then you started another one wherever you went next time . |
| 6 | And there was a placement first floor , second floor , and where they used to be starting to live beautiful house ! |
| 7 | In consequence , European collaboration is fraught and costly : operational requirements are made more complex than they ought to be by the need for compromise ; sharing development leads to mismatches of components that have to be corrected late on in programmes ; and divided production and assembly increases overheads and puts up costs . |
| 8 | Because our lord the king had great zeal and desire to redress the state of the realm in such things as required amendment for the common profit of Holy Church and of the realm ; and because the state of Holy Church had been evil kept and the prelates and religious persons of the land grieved many ways , and the people otherwise entreated than they ought to be , and the peace less kept , and the laws less used , and the offenders less punished than they ought to be . |
| 9 | Because our lord the king had great zeal and desire to redress the state of the realm in such things as required amendment for the common profit of Holy Church and of the realm ; and because the state of Holy Church had been evil kept and the prelates and religious persons of the land grieved many ways , and the people otherwise entreated than they ought to be , and the peace less kept , and the laws less used , and the offenders less punished than they ought to be . |
| 10 | The scientists who man the climatological observation posts are less cautious than they used to be now that the general theory of climate change has become common property ; government servants are more confident and outspoken ; and , while scepticism remains , no cabinet minister is likely to denounce the theory and the accompanying evidence as hysterical . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , RAF attitudes were changing : the disbandment of Fighter Command and the probable demise of the V Force made pilot seats in transport aircraft more attractive than they used to be . |
| 12 | The columnists on the op-ed pages are more bloody-minded than they used to be , but in its editorials the Times remains the voice of American public policy . |
| 13 | Now some have — and foreign investors , less credulous anyway , are more needed than they used to be . |
| 14 | Litters today are so much bigger than they used to be that sows inevitably find it more difficult to avoid harming their offspring . |
| 15 | Are people more or less ‘ in the know ’ about the external circumstances which affect them than they used to be ? |
| 16 | A&R people are sharper and more aggressive than they used to be . |
| 17 | ‘ Like a lot of things in the musical instrument industry , strings are much better value than they used to be . |
| 18 | Nurses were more highly educated and accountable for their actions as professionals than they used to be . |
| 19 | Boilers , especially the new low-water-content gas types , area a lot smaller than they used to be , and the latest gas-fired condensing boilers can run at efficiencies as high as 90% . |
| 20 | The schools of Freud and Jung are now much closer together than they used to be : it 's been said that Jungians tend to be more ‘ spiritually ’ orientated . |
| 21 | ‘ People are growing more realistic than they used to be ’ , Norster added , judging that the divisive ways of the recent past are being addressed . |
| 22 | The arguments that are now available to justify the use of particular methods are much more convincing than they used to be . |
| 23 | Gamma Virginis or Arich is also a binary ; the identical components can be split with almost any telescope , though not with binoculars ( they are much less wide apart now than they used to be 50 years ago , and the separation is decreasing steadily ) . |
| 24 | But they were less inclined to tolerate this kind of thing than they used to be . |
| 25 | Taxes on companies ' profits are also now far less than they used to be ( down by over a third ) . |
| 26 | However , there is some evidence that women are more likely to engage in pre-marital sexual activity and that the negative sanctions on this are less than they used to be . |
| 27 | Families in modern Britain are generally more privatized and inward-looking than they used to be , with a greater interest in the home and the immediate family of wife or husband and children . |
| 28 | Courses which relate English literature to other subjects are perhaps commoner than they used to be … . |
| 29 | Members of the public are less deferential , better informed , and more litigious than they used to be . |
| 30 | Well , I find nowadays , people are much better at planning their retirement than they used to be , maybe because people are more aware of the fact th they wo n't necessarily be teaching till sixty or that sort of erm age . |