Example sentences of "[vb mod] to be [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There used to be er a fish shop and er that used to be called 's that fish shop did . |
| 2 | And it used to be called 's N's lodging house . |
| 3 | It used to be called Am Graben which is German for ‘ the moat ’ because that was where the medieval city walls ran . |
| 4 | One of the best known approaches as to how decisions ought to be made is that of Simon , who developed the behaviour alternative model . |
| 5 | Procrastination sets in : jobs that ought to be done are left to pile up ; weak excuses made to avoid doing anything difficult . |
| 6 | Practical guidelines on the way in which an allegation of misconduct ought to be handled are available in the ACAS Code of Practice on disciplinary and other employment procedures , and in the handbook Discipline at Work . |
| 7 | This discussion suggests that the question we ought to be asking is not a descriptive one — what is public law ? — but a prescriptive or normative one : when ought public law rules apply ; or , what is the proper scope of public law ? |
| 8 | It means that the recession which ought to be ending is gathering pace . ’ |
| 9 | The further question of where now theology ought to be going was one he was less equipped to tackle . |
| 10 | A final point which ought to be considered is whether the doctor may be liable under section 2 in the case that the patient expressing the wish to die is mentally unfit . |
| 11 | But the sort of criticism that says ‘ if we want to achieve X , I believe we are going the wrong way about it , what we ought to be doing is Y ’ , seems to me to be exactly the approach that is needed . |
| 12 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 13 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 14 | When we are told there is a shortage of floppy disks , what they ought to be doing is sending out working printing saving and using versions of their programs that we can load 10–20 times then said software will commit Hari Kari . |