Example sentences of "they [adv] [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er well you go further through and you can go to the erm And the the Narrowmarsh it was narrow and all , you could shake hands with one another o off the but it now is all council houses is built down there now where they only used to be ordinary little houses . |
| 2 | I mean they all ought to be geared up for all this for Christ 's sake . |
| 3 | They look better They all used to be one colour before but we 've now extended the range and so they 've put them in different colour bottles . |
| 4 | And then in the streets , there was no electric lights in the street , they all used to be gas . |
| 5 | now with them changing the the changeover cos they always used to be the letters followed by the numbers . |
| 6 | Children brought up on a diet of TV and video are no longer as tractable and easy to control , as they once used to be , even in the younger classes of the junior school . |
| 7 | Floy thought they probably ought to be afraid themselves , because the Tree Spirits were so inHuman and so wild and so clearly filled with strange woodland magic that once they had finished with Balor they might very well turn to the two Renascians . |
| 8 | There is a primitive look to them : they are small ( perhaps 100cm at the withers , and weighing 280–300kg , though they probably used to be larger ) and very narrow in the hindquarters . |
| 9 | ‘ I should n't really haff talked to a stranger like that , ’ she thought , as she hurried back through the wood , ‘ especially a tramp , but if people drop paper about they really ought to be told , because they get other people into trouble . |
| 10 | Now Canada is where young men hang out when they really ought to be in Vietnam . |
| 11 | joined in too and that they they really ought to be invited to put the s in the frame as well . |
| 12 | As soon as those are published , employers are put on notice that there are steps they really ought to be taking . |
| 13 | These houses , they really ought to be there . |
| 14 | about necessarily taking it , but I think they certainly ought to be made aware of sort of what it involves and and what it really means . |