Example sentences of "they [modal v] to [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No you ca n't do that , they ought to be on two separate days because people not |
| 2 | They ought to be near him soon . |
| 3 | Perhaps they ought to be in the British Library . |
| 4 | ‘ But no one tells them they ought to be in this dead-end job and liking it . ’ |
| 5 | I think they ought to be in the wild . |
| 6 | In consequence , European collaboration is fraught and costly : operational requirements are made more complex than they ought to be by the need for compromise ; sharing development leads to mismatches of components that have to be corrected late on in programmes ; and divided production and assembly increases overheads and puts up costs . |
| 7 | FINS ai n't what they used to be for Doug Laughton and Graeme Souness |
| 8 | They used to be for a while . |
| 9 | I remember once , they used to be at 's . |
| 10 | Public are n't allowed in like they used to be before the war . |
| 11 | And they used to be like ham . |
| 12 | Now er clay pipes , we used to dredge up and they got dredged up down opposite Pinmill , and they were a long pipe , but cos the , the stem a lot of them had been broken off and wh how they got down there nobody know , I think they used to be like in ballast with the ships , I think . |
| 13 | Well they used to be like er , used t as you used to braid your hair , they 'd braid a bit o rope and they 'd , they 'd make a sole out of that . |
| 14 | They used to be like that . |
| 15 | They used to be from tha , and they still are in there . |
| 16 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |
| 17 | And then they used to get , they used to be in Jackie , he always gathered bags and |
| 18 | Because they used to be in the swamp hours . |
| 19 | They used to be in the boxes up the yard , you see , you used to lay them and feed them for perhaps a week before you killed them . |
| 20 | They used to be in that size I , I ca n't remember now , that size used to be I ca n't remember , no . |