Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [noun] [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that the photo reminds him of how Sharpness used to be . |
| 2 | The history of administrative ideas and management theory is a history of prescriptive statements about how organizations ought to be structured to achieve their goals ( Abrahamsson 1977 ) . |
| 3 | The advantage of having trekked with a World Challenge Expedition is that another time she will know how things ought to be planned . |
| 4 | Changed circumstances also mattered to Waters ( 1979 : 47 ) who described outstanding schools as places which were run by heads " with flair , wisdom , energy and that sense of knowing how things ought to be " but who emphasized , too , that these qualities needed to be partnered with an ability in organization and management in a wide variety of fields . |
| 5 | The increasing importance of a senior participant 's ability in management and organization led to the conversion of traditional heads from being people of experience and goodwill ( and who had a sense of how things ought to be ) into planners and implementers . |
| 6 | Within yards of the station , you can catch trout for tea , sup Yorkshire ale , and see how things used to be at Beck Isle Museum of Rural Life . |
| 7 | It is pointless.and harmful to hark back to how things used to be , although the conflict of loyalties may be hard to handle . |
| 8 | Through events of different kinds we are likely to be put in touch with aspects of ourselves which previously have been overlooked — we are given a jolt , and have to make a bridge between how things used to be and how they threatened . |
| 9 | One of the best known approaches as to how decisions ought to be made is that of Simon , who developed the behaviour alternative model . |
| 10 | These competing perspectives on the range of viable solutions will flow also from the fact that theories normally carry with them implicit and explicit notions of how society ought to be structured . |
| 11 | But even a new house , as freshly conceived as the Dairy at Blaise , in response to a fiction of how life ought to be , has a wayward personality of its own , produced by the subconscious , both individual and collective , of its makers . |
| 12 | This process not only gives identification and hope for the newcomer , it also reminds the old-timers that they forget at their peril how life used to be . |
| 13 | This wider meaning comprehends the normative attitudes held by the people towards government , their conception of how power ought to be regulated , of what it is proper to do and not to do . |
| 14 | For that 's the place where traitors ought to be . |
| 15 | The reason why changes ought to be made in language is to bring it into line with the way things really are . |
| 16 | I even passed a couple of oast houses where hops used to be dried after being picked by families of East Enders for a pittance and a daily beer ration . |
| 17 | My throat would itch with the dust of doves who enquired and conversed on the same few notes , while the heavy ticking of the estate clock at the top of a rotting ladder reverberated around the eight chalk walls where game used to be hung . |
| 18 | It was , in fact , the once-trendy Manhattan disco Studio 54 , where people used to be turned away for not being Beautiful . |
| 19 | Watch in delight as the city 's trendiest inhabitants jetski down Fifth Avenue , or strap on your tanks and check out the exotic undersea life flitting in and out of the ruined buildings where Harlem used to be . |
| 20 | Indeed , to speak of interests at all provokes confusion , for it suggests that these interests pre-exist the determination of the question where liabilities ought to be created according to distributive principles . |
| 21 | The best example is California — the shift of population from the countryside to the cities meant more cars , more houses where orchards used to be , less clean air , fewer clean lakes and rivers , etc . |