Example sentences of "that [modal v] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That ought to be extinct . ’ |
| 2 | Also I know you had it bandaged up but the skin there has gone white and I honestly think that ought to be X-rayed . |
| 3 | Edges that ought to be significant are either absent from an image or almost so and the strongest changes in an image are often changes in illumination and have nothing to do with meaningful relations in a scene . ’ |
| 4 | Whatever the form of the link that is chosen at Labour Party Conference , that ought to be top of our agenda . |
| 5 | If he does then that ought to be bad news for McClair . |
| 6 | That ought to be enough to scare away even the most devoted private-sector champions of better training . |
| 7 | That ought to be enough to bargain myself clear of the whole mess . |
| 8 | They , " she waved her hand towards the door , " They will pull her away from her , take bits of her that used to be all ours , and she 'll be like a visitor here . " |
| 9 | and when we and when we were dredging that up , that used to be all like er er trunks of trees and you could , I mean you could see it when they come up it was very light . |
| 10 | Where the bus , and you know where the buses park and everything , that used to be all sidings right under that bridge that 's got the weight limit on |
| 11 | Well that used to be all the rage once , did n't it ? |
| 12 | Plymouth Drake : tough fight for Dame Janet Fookes in seat that used to be one of most marginal in Britain ; though Lib Dem Val Cox needs only a four per cent swing , Labour barrister Peter Telford has best hopes . |
| 13 | Although at sixty he was becoming a little stooped , and his hair and beard that used to be jet-black were turning to silver , the force of his personality was undeniable . |
| 14 | Oh look it 's all when The Who used to smash their rec , all their , I mean that used to be disgusting . |
| 15 | That is not being disingenuous : that is asking for the kind of conduct that used to be normal on both sides of the House . |
| 16 | I work in a newspaper that used to be male dominated and now I would say three quarters of the wo , three quarters of the people on the news desk are now women . |
| 17 | If there is one unchallenged law of personal computing it is that , given half a chance , they will make something that used to be simple into a completely bewildering nightmare ! |
| 18 | Well though some of it was coming from Argentine , that used to be boneless Argentine beef . |
| 19 | While many of the older farm workers nostalgically regret the passing of horses , none regrets the way in which mechanization has removed much of the physical effort and routine drudgery that used to be involved in working on a farm . |
| 20 | A small lodge house that used to be some sort of appendage of Burnage Court is currently for sale through Hamptons . |
| 21 | There are further curbs on union activity to think up , a pastime that used to be popular but now looks merely gratuitous . |
| 22 | Well she does n't like M C Hammer , he was on , and then there was one week with Germans on it and it was , erm , it 's a German group that used to be popular and have n't done a song for ages . |
| 23 | ‘ England is an island without sea , or else an island that used to be sea-bound , only so long ago that the sea 's now evaporated . ’ |
| 24 | And then course that used to be different , er used to be different size timber two by sixes , four by twos , inch by one , er inch by ou I mean inch |
| 25 | Yeah well her washing , that girl 's washing and that , I think that used to be lovely ! |