Example sentences of "it [modal v] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks as if it ought to be with the compound ones but it 's not . |
| 2 | Turning 30 , 40 or 50 can be the start of something great Sex with a younger man — it ought to be on prescription ! |
| 3 | If we are sensible it ought to be against San Marino in February . ’ |
| 4 | If he 's going to make a speech it ought to be before too much champagne goes to too many heads . ’ |
| 5 | For me , I think the last paragraph in my paper in the Speaker of the week before last [ ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ ] was pretty good ; but it ought to be in verse . |
| 6 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 7 | But that 's his ‘ sic ’ , not mine — I deny all responsibility — so by rights it ought to be in square brackets instead . |
| 8 | ‘ Looks like it ought to be in a museum , ’ Donna said with awe , fingering the inlaid panel on the top . |
| 9 | As an historian I know how valuable a commodity — and I mean valuable in terms of hard cash — it ought to be in these days when the whole of life , our own present as well as the past , seems to reach us pre-packaged in the form of interviews and telly-probe . |
| 10 | So , you either decide to start again , or you cut and paste , often laboriously , to move the range to where you think it ought to be in the first place . |
| 11 | That 's a factor of something like three hundred per cent than it , than it ought to be in terms of inflation and the County Treasurer 's budget of plus five per cent which is well in excess of two hundred per cent . |
| 12 | He did not concern himself with the business of creating such a society , only with the description of what it ought to be like : the actual propositions in the book are not to be taken literally , in other words , since he was offering only the ideal model of a better civilization . |
| 13 | Which is what it used to be of course is n't it ? |
| 14 | Where 's the ray-gun gone ? ’ she asked , looking to where it used to be on the side wall . |
| 15 | And we used to have what they call er a stick and goos it used to I remember we used to have sti what you call stick and goos It was like a great long thing like that and you used to have a stick and it used to be on the floor and you just tap it and and hit it like that and it goes |
| 16 | Oh yes , oh yes , oh mum went there for years and years every Saturday yeah , and as I say the wagonettes used to erm be stationed up by Albion Street , to take er shopping and , and er and Rushbrooks used to be the big confectioners then , that 's on the , it used to be on the corner of erm Albion , well there 's a market there , an indoor market now is n't there yeah they were the er the big confectioners Rushbrooks , and er bakers and confectioners and er all the barrels of flour used to be , you could see all that going in you know but er I do n't know whether it is , am I making it interesting , is it interesting for you ? |
| 17 | I mean , it used to be on a Friday , then it used to be on a Saturday , only sometimes like I used to watch it . |
| 18 | I mean , it used to be on a Friday , then it used to be on a Saturday , only sometimes like I used to watch it . |
| 19 | it used to be at a different time of the year , though , did n't it ? |
| 20 | ( It used to be at more frequent intervals , but this was found to be too disruptive . ) |
| 21 | Saddest export a convoy of lorries begins the long journey to China and , inset , the furnace as it used to be at the height of production Picture : VIC CLEVELEY |
| 22 | It used to be with Mum and Dad and you and the kids in Calking . |
| 23 | Of course that is just what it used to be for before the invasion of the television and the mobile office . |
| 24 | It used to be for really petty things like not standing up , or shouting out the window , running up the dinner queue and pushing it . |
| 25 | ‘ The great thing about pop music in the past is that it used to be about pushing everything . |
| 26 | It used to be about the best bowling green in the in this part of the country . |
| 27 | It used to be about the best bowling green in the in this part of the country . |
| 28 | ‘ Do you remember how it used to be between us , Jessamy ? ’ he went on in that same low and almost hypnotic voice . |
| 29 | I do n't remember how it used to be between us , Julius . ’ |
| 30 | Why it lay down er just down the road as you turned down to it used to be across the fields . |