Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb mod] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more concerned than we ought to be |
| 2 | We 're more conscious of these things than we used to be , before . |
| 3 | Though we feel ourselves to be much more comfortable now than we used to be , there has been very little increase in domestic fuel demand over fifty years or more . |
| 4 | that , and , and , I mean it 's probably better for George to do what he wants to do , rather to do what he do n't want to do because we used to be in the same predicament when we were doing cabaret , we 'd go down to London on the Saturday , we 'd leave here what about half three , four o'clock , so if we stayed in digs , we 'd be finished work say midnight , we 'd be back in digs for one , then he 'll go up till seven the next night |
| 5 | The lady did n't come alone , and I 'm not sure whether we ought to be doing anything about it . |
| 6 | If you are asking whether we ought to be spending more , I can only agree , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ We met at a swimming gala 'cos we used to be competitive swimmers , ’ recalls Sam . |
| 8 | Yeah , we got it and another time you see , when we wer when we used to be crane drivers , when we first started crane driving , the job for a crane driver was to do anything , you were a crane driver but if your crane wanted painting you would paint it yourself , chip to paint it . |
| 9 | especially when we used to be at factory , because we used to come down Phillip 's yard , did n't |
| 10 | We are not so sensible as we ought to be of the Providence which hourly sustains us . |
| 11 | Modern relevant and as successful in recruitment of the workforce of the nineties as we used to be in recruiting the workforce of the sixties and seventies . |
| 12 | And , and , and lets remember that the first big shock that British sportsmen got , the first shaking of the earth which intimated that we were n't so hot at these things as we used to be was in professional sport , it was in football , it was when the Hungarians beat England in nineteen-fifty-six , and the Hungarian army officer Elista Pushkas became erm a world figure because he 'd led the team that had humbled British football might . |