Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [vb mod] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If head statements to their governors are the key documents which they ought to be , they deserve all the care which drafting and redrafting can confer on them . |
| 2 | FINGS ai n't wot they used to be department : The recent ministerial reshuffle has stripped the rather snobby Home Office of three Old Etonians — Hurd , Renton and Hogg . |
| 3 | questions were being raised about what the police were doing , what they ought to be doing and how they ought to be organised and accountable . |
| 4 | We wish also to persuade him that once he takes fully into account that his ultimate goals are spontaneous ( are , not ought to be ; what they ought to be is intelligent as well as spontaneous ) , he will require no first principle other than ‘ Be aware ’ for choosing between them . |
| 5 | Cost-cutting to us was taking 5% off things that were double what they ought to be . |
| 6 | In fact this difference is not usually of much consequence because in both cases the practical strengths are well below what they ought to be . |
| 7 | Below the surface there lies , for many teachers , a nagging sense of doubt and confusion about what they are doing , what they ought to be doing and what they are doing it for . |
| 8 | It has been generalist rather than specific , its programme being based upon each child 's interests and abilities ( rather than upon an external authority 's projection of what they ought to be ) . |
| 9 | Still hammering away , the Institute has the satisfaction of knowing that it has at last brought home to the Ministry of Health , within whose purview this question comes , that things are not what they ought to be , and Dr Eichholz , who has just retired from the Chief Inspectorate of Special Schools , is at its request making a special enquiry . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Is he aware that that has not been the case in large parts of the national health service , where food , cleaning and laundry services have been put out to competitive tender , and where , as a result , standards have often fallen far short of what they ought to be ? |
| 12 | ‘ They are fiercer than they have been for years , right back to what they used to be , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Powders are not what they used to be and today 's formulations wo n't clog , streak or look heavy , provided you apply them properly . |
| 14 | Hollywood Indians are n't what they used to be . |
| 15 | HARD men ai n't what they used to be ! |
| 16 | FINS ai n't what they used to be for Doug Laughton and Graeme Souness |
| 17 | ‘ Well , ’ said Dracula , ‘ fangs ai n't what they used to be ! ’ |
| 18 | Still , things are not what they used to be . |
| 19 | But he gave up on that to tell us this — things ai n't a patch on what they used to be . |
| 20 | It is one thing to assert that things are ‘ not what they used to be ’ and that this is part of the more ‘ general malaise ’ in society . |
| 21 | Many , for example , talked about the gangs they had once been involved in but these gangs , if they remained at all , were not , as one Town Boy said , ‘ a shadow of what they used to be ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ A lot of black people , they make it and they forget about the street talk , they forget what they used to be , and I think , regardless of whether you 're black or white , you should always keep in touch with your culture . |
| 23 | Because of his principles he had n't served in the Forces and they 'd made him do labouring jobs instead , so that now his hands were n't what they used to be either . |
| 24 | THINGS : WHAT they used to be |
| 25 | Things were not what they used to be , he lamented . |
| 26 | All these actions led to the reduction of oil prices until they dropped to half of what they used to be … |
| 27 | ‘ Fings ai n't what they used to be , ’ sang Max Bygraves . |
| 28 | THINGS : WHAT they used to be |
| 29 | Spies ai n't what they used to be |
| 30 | What I do n't understand if all they need to do is revert back to what they used to be and come straight through on the on the ordinary route . |