Example sentences of "of what [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found that practices were very diverse , that people had different impressions , not only of what ought to be done , but what was in fact being done . |
| 2 | If there is a written version of what ought to be being done this is a useful basic document . |
| 3 | Then , of course , any critical function which natural law might be supposed to have in constraining the content of positive law is dissolved and Finnis 's natural law with a variable and changing content is revealed as serving the purely ideological function of justification and not an epistemological function in respect of what ought to be . |
| 4 | 1988 , etc. ) , there was a tendency to acquiesce in this conventional wisdom and all that went with it : the reduction of what ought to be a complex and multi-faceted debate to the simple adversarialism of ‘ formal ’ versus ‘ informal ’ , ‘ didactic ’ versus ‘ exploratory ’ , teacher as ‘ instructor ’ versus teacher as ‘ facilitator ’ , rote learning versus ‘ discovery ’ , ‘ subjects ’ versus ‘ integration ’ , class teaching versus group work , ‘ traditional ’ versus ‘ progressive ’ , ‘ bad practice ’ versus ‘ good ’ . |
| 5 | Theresa Billington Greig , who broke away from the Pankhursts ' suffragette organisation , the Women 's Social and Political Union , over the issue of militant action , was virtually alone in criticising suffragists and suffragettes who regarded the home ‘ as an exemplar of what ought to be in the political world ’ . |
| 6 | The process has evolved over the decade with the linking up of what used to be short runs into long , cross-country routes . |
| 7 | Llanelli 's 14-12 win was also a reminder of what used to be . |
| 8 | still blessed with a scent of what used to be called the counter-culture , they are also the most responsive to music generated from outside the mainstream corporate structure . |
| 9 | Cockney Rebel had it a bit , and it was the time of the film Cabaret , The Rocky Horror Show and Biba 's nightclub on the roof of what used to be Derry and Toms Every other phrase in the newspapers seemed to be ‘ Iounge lizard ’ . |
| 10 | Their ritualled life is interrupted only by Saxon 's unclear memories of what used to be , along with the movement of the grotesque Brogan in the ‘ upper world ’ . |
| 11 | THE Cubans have pulled out of what used to be the People 's Republic of the Congo , and is now just the Congo Republic . |
| 12 | Looking at each other , wordlessly grappling , two people from the same small segment of the country had unknowingly provoked in each other ill-formed shapes of what used to be home , and as yet unrecognized images of what used to be themselves . |
| 13 | Looking at each other , wordlessly grappling , two people from the same small segment of the country had unknowingly provoked in each other ill-formed shapes of what used to be home , and as yet unrecognized images of what used to be themselves . |
| 14 | On a piece of rocky coastline and out of what used to be a quaint old fishing village , has sprung one of the liveliest resorts in Corfu . |
| 15 | There was still an ingrained suspicion of what used to be called ‘ combinations ’ . |
| 16 | In March 1916 the Midland League programme was completed , and to fill the remaining weeks of what used to be the normal season a subsidiary tournament involving six clubs was organized , with Leeds City in the Northern Group of the Midland League . |
| 17 | OK , the radical Maoist lesbian communes of what used to be Berkeley University are rather less keen on topless sunbathing than the nubiles of Saint Tropez . |
| 18 | Unsurprisingly , none of them had heard of Giles Williams , which was clearly a false name , and Kelly 's description of his telephone manner — a slurred , gin-sodden voice with a wheedling insincere tone to it — covered half of what used to be known as Fleet Street . |
| 19 | All are comprehensible as symptoms of social disorientation , of the fraying , and sometimes the snapping , of the threads of what used to be the network that bound people together in society . |
| 20 | But it 's too late now ; there , as in most parts of what used to be the Eastern bloc , telecommunications are being upgraded post-haste . |
| 21 | So I 'm put into the hands of what used to be called ‘ Wardrobe ’ but now has the grander title of ‘ Costume Designers ’ , who are keen for me to join the twentieth century sartorially , which would involve climbing into one of those colossal suits . |
| 22 | Audio-visual materials , cassettes and videotapes , and access to computer based learning will simplify a lot of what used to be dull and repetitive work . |
| 23 | The continued squeeze on defence procurement , combined with a demand for ever-more complex weaponry , has encouraged NATO to think the once-unthinkable : a code of practice for defence companies that should wring better value for money out of what used to be one of the capitalist world 's most protected and pampered industries . |
| 24 | THE COUNTY now known simply as Lothian is an amalgamation of what used to be East Lothian , Midlothian , and West Lothian , with a few bits chipped off the edges here and there : for example , the little settlement of Stow with its packhorse bridge over the Gala Water was once in East Lothian but has now been lured into the Borders region . |
| 25 | Allied-Maples , the present group title of what used to be Allied Carpets , built its reputation on aggressively-priced , high street carpet stores . |
| 26 | Even here in the dusty , bounding Toyota , this old man has a distinctiveness , the clubbable , dependable qualities of what used to be called a gentleman . |
| 27 | It was during this period of what used to be called the Dark Ages that the ethnic map of Europe began to assume a character which in the main survives today . |
| 28 | British industry , the City of London , most of what used to be called Fleet Street , and the economic spokesmen for all the political parties have for many years spoken with one voice on this matter : what Britain required , they all said , was a large , secure home market in which it was possible to benefit from economies of scale comparable to those enjoyed by the Japanese and the Americans . |
| 29 | The Group 's largest and longest established operation is in oil-rich Kuwait , a small but strategically placed country at the top of what used to be known as the Persian gulf — now politically just referred to as the gulf . |
| 30 | Almost daily , my local newspaper , the South Wales Evening Post , publishes examples of what used to be called taking and driving away — joyriding . |