Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought he was quieter than he used to be . |
| 2 | He is obviously less discreet than he used to be . ’ |
| 3 | Mum and I go to see him sometimes , and we agree that he is a much nicer person than he used to be . |
| 4 | Cloughie , probably now less adaptable to sudden change than he used to be , has been hamstrung by the departure of two high class central defenders , whom he has been unable to replace despite having cash in the bank . |
| 5 | I told him he should be able to see the good in people as well as the evil , so he ought to be happier . |
| 6 | It was remarkably clean and well-maintained , and all the lights worked but Clive felt as if he ought to be wearing a pith helmet , and carrying a hunting rifle that could bring down a charging rhino at fifty paces . |
| 7 | He wondered if he ought to be very formal . |
| 8 | Rich Adrian , who looked as if he ought to be at public school , only his parents did n't believe in it , even thought they had pots of cash . |
| 9 | Twelve , thirteen , yeah cos he used to be on ten at the old place and he gets about two thousand more |
| 10 | ‘ I think it 's because he used to be a sort of friend . ’ |
| 11 | I did n't like Mike , ’ she says , ‘ I strolled in and he did n't like me , he was at that age when he did n't like people if they did n't look cool so I hated him because he used to be really sarcastic and I did n't know him well enough to realise that he was only messing . |
| 12 | I suppose it was because he used to be so , you know , |
| 13 | About this time he started to wonder whether he ought to be a monk . |
| 14 | Both Sonatas are cleanly played , but the inner momentum of Rachmaninov 's first movement is lost : Yo-Yo Ma too often takes a back seat when he ought to be showing the lead , and this affects the balance . |
| 15 | Matt 's pretty fit from all those outdoor movies where they put olive oil on his pectorals ( though not as fit as he ought to be ) and the two of us gave the crew a bit of a hard time , said union rules did n't apply in the Jungle , and so on . |
| 16 | Not as alive as he used to be , ’ runs the caption to one cartoon . |
| 17 | And here he was , a man turned sixty , still upright , but no longer handsome or as jolly as he used to be . |
| 18 | Alain Prost is not as quick as he used to be but was smarter , and Nigel Mansell is not the smoothest driver around but he has a lot of ‘ mechanical talent ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Not as alive as he used to be ’ |
| 20 | So they have to pretend he 's still ill and just as disagreeable as he used to be ! ’ |
| 21 | He is not so light-hearted now as he used to be — too much responsibility . |
| 22 | Do we really need him now , there 's no way he 's going to be as good as he used to be , and he 's probably the size of Mick Quinn now anyway : - ) |
| 23 | Cos he is n't home as much as he used to be . |
| 24 | As for the metaphor of ‘ law ’ , its persisting power is evident whenever someone , pondering the determinist thesis that even his own actions are ‘ bound by ’ , are ‘ subject to ’ , ‘ obey ’ the laws of nature , finds himself thinking as though he ought to be conscious of his own resisting will , as he is when submitting to human laws . |
| 25 | Looks as though he ought to be ! |