Example sentences of "[vb mod] to be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used to be sent to London and various places ; and when we 'd done all that we got four shillings a hundred for them . |
| 2 | And er he was rubbing the coal off his back and was stripped there , we used to be stripped to the waist then . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In other words , they 're taking a lot of the task that used to be given to manufacturers away from them and so manufacturers today are not by and large so concerned with manufacturing brands which are their own and will sit on retailers ' shelves as with providing a product for a retailer who wants to construct his own brand . |
| 5 | She called her a tart and a slut because she used to be married to a black man from South Carolina who sang basso at charity concerts all over Yorkshire and Lancashire and dropped dead at the Sun Hotel in Eccleshill in 1927 . |
| 6 | The fact I used to be married to Ursula is completely irrelevant . ’ |
| 7 | This is in fact a correct use of the subjunctive mood , which used to be known to writers and sub-editors , and even to publishers and booksellers . |
| 8 | Some African coins used to be attributed to the Numidian King Jugurtha ( 118–105BC ) , but the discovery of a hoard at Enna in Sicily in 1966 showed that these coins were actually contemporary with the period of democracy at Syracuse in 214–212BC , and the coins could therefore be redated and attributed to the Carthaginian expedition against Sicily in 213–210 BC . |
| 9 | This was the kind of language that used to be attributed to the sharper end of the second-hand book world . |
| 10 | And my little boy was he was only about three at the time and I used to be used to angry at him and my neighbour used to come in and take him . |
| 11 | All the grouse used to be brought to my dad , who was awful particular about displaying them . |
| 12 | In 1959 I started to take an interest in flight data recorders and it appeared to me that they ought to be fitted to large public transport aircraft as a legal requirement . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The induction of recruits became a more civilized process in September 1862 when Miliutin declared that their heads need not be shaved and that they ought to be conducted to the barracks in everyday clothing rather than clothes that made them look like convicts . |
| 15 | A reduction in interest rates will result in a fall in the size of this subsidy , and the phasing in of a cash ceiling approach ought to be timed to such a favourable point in time . |
| 16 | I think that ought to be said to staff . |
| 17 | ( 4 ) An action of which the value is £50,000 or more shall be tried in the High Court unless : ( a ) it is commenced in a county court and the county court does not consider that the action ought to be transferred to the High Court for trial ; or ( b ) the High Court considers that it ought to transfer the case to a county court for trial ( art 7(4) ) . |
| 18 | In this paper , I have argued that , contrary to the thinking of some of the major representatives of the tradition which distinguishes the public world from the private one , the notion of autonomy ought to be extended to the private sphere . |
| 19 | They agreed that assistance provided by the " Group of 24 " industrialized countries ( from which only Poland and Hungary currently benefited — see pp. 36802 ; 36961 ) , ought to be extended to Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , East Germany , Romania , and Yugoslavia . |
| 20 | Each individual consciousness ought to be compared to a brain cell in a universal mind . ’ |
| 21 | Yes , erm , erm obviously not made it very well , but erm , but the word acceptable ought to be altered to increased |
| 22 | I suppose to be technical it ought to be the er it ought to be referred to as the Franco- German war . |
| 23 | It could be that nothing can be done , but we ought to be seen to be taking action over this . |
| 24 | In both these cases it was held that the alternative of a manslaughter verdict ought to be left to the jury where the occasion justifies action in self-defence , or to prevent a crime , or to apprehend an offender , but where the defendant acts beyond the necessity of that occasion . |
| 25 | But we all have our own ideas about the answers to these big questions and it ought to be left to the discretion of class teachers to allow their pupils to learn about life 's problems in their own time and at their own pace . |
| 26 | I have constructed a kitchen out of flatpacks with only one minor nervous breakdown and one remarkable shouting match involving my wife , her mother , myself and how a length of pine beading ought to be attached to several wall cupboards . |
| 27 | In People v. Rosario ( 1961 ) 213 N.Y.S. 2d 448 four members of the Court of Appeals of New York , adopting the view of the United States Supreme Court in Jencks v. United States ( 1957 ) 353 U.S. 657 , ruled that the entire previous statements of prosecution witnesses ought to be shown to defence counsel after the direct examination with a view to his cross-examining those witnesses and attacking their credibility , saying that counsel were best able to decide what use could be made of the statements , whereas three members of the court took a narrower view and , following the line of authority which had hitherto prevailed in New York , held that defence counsel could examine and use only those portions of a statement which , according to the view of the trial judge , contained variances from a witness 's evidence . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I ought to be used to it , but I 'm not . |
| 30 | They ought to be used to marital break-ups . " |