Example sentences of "as it [vb mod] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The view is never as good as it ought to be . |
| 2 | Moreover , the surveyor will feel you do n't wish to involve yourself and his allegiance will be inclined towards the building society or bank , instead of to you which is as it ought to be . |
| 3 | I was surprised , therefore , to read ( in All Across the Telegraph : a Bob Dylan handbook edited by Michael Gray and John Bauldie , published by Futura ) an essay about the real William Zantzinger ( as it ought to be spelled ) who committed the murder in 1963 and as of 1984 was a respected and prosperous businessman in the same state , Maryland , where he had committed it . |
| 4 | In my view this is as it ought to be . |
| 5 | The way things look now , Greece 's public sector is not going to be cut as much as it ought to be . |
| 6 | Admittedly , he says that he is describing ethical discussion as it is , rather than as it ought to be . |
| 7 | The Realist approach , he remarks , gets its name from precisely this point : that it deals with human nature as it is and not as it ought to be , and with historical events as they have occurred , not as they should have occurred . |
| 8 | ‘ [ Just as ] feminism identifies interrelatedness and mutuality-equal , respectful , and nurturing relationships — as the basis of the world as it really is and as it ought to be , we can find no better understanding and image of the divine than that of the perfect and open relationships of love . |
| 9 | This is not as straightforward as it ought to be , because the statement of claim is long and complex and in some respects obscure . |
| 10 | He stared at the T'ang , wondering if he knew what he had become ; if the doubt that he professed was as thorough , as all-inclusive as it ought to be . |
| 11 | It 's not quite as crisp as it ought to be . |
| 12 | In this epistle he indicates that he himself , at the time of writing , is a solitary attracted by the disciplined life of service in a religious order , but does not feel any burning conviction that that is his calling : I confess , alas , that I do not feel that burning spiritual desire for entry into religion , inspired by that divine grace , as it ought to be felt by those who from zealous devotion and pure desire of the mind plan to enter religion … |
| 13 | You could recognise the style of a weather report , an Agony Aunt all sorts of different types of writing , er , you could probably , if your reading is as wide as it ought to be , recognise the style of a leader from er , pretty heavy newspaper , Guardian , Independent , Observer , that sort of thing , could you ? |
| 14 | Harrowing stuff with emotions , hormones and nerve ends aching , but for all the quality of the acting and the script , it does n't seem as moving as it ought to be but it is hard to define why not . |
| 15 | No , no I ca n't I just ca n't eat so I 'm not forcing myself to eat , what I 'm trying to do is only to eat the right things and I must start vitamin supplements I think I 've got the age when I probably need that , I mean , this cold is a warning to me that my immune system is not as strong as it ought to be , I should n't have had another cold so soon after getting rid of one ! |
| 16 | Appropriate too , because the sudden greening of British politics , the rediscovery of the quality of life ( QOL , as it used to be known among Labour ministers on a previous incarnation ) introduces a catalytic ingredient into the brew known as Thatcherism . |
| 17 | If the county championship was still there as it used to be , then I could pick only northern-based players and in two or three years I 'd have a very strong side . ’ |
| 18 | Producing a coupe derivative , even in the limited numbers envisaged by Bentley with the Continental R , is not as easy as it used to be . |
| 19 | But now nothing on the political-economic front is as clear-cut as it used to be . |
| 20 | They were , after all , Soviet citizens , who lived in the Soviet Union , not Russia or Kirghizia as it used to be called . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's not as black and white as it used to be . |
| 22 | I 'm certainly forced to admit I 've noticed it in myself — my thinking has n't been nearly as controlled as it used to be . |
| 23 | Counselling Help and Advice Together ( address on page 154 ) , an organisation for nurses , says that this difficulty is not as common as it used to be as fewer nursing staff actually ‘ live in ’ . |
| 24 | It 's not as financially viable as it used to be ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The great thing about writing sport for Punch is that people ca n't say it 's not as funny as it used to be , because nobody 's done it before , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Not as funny as it used to be . |
| 27 | The music is still as good as it used to be . |
| 28 | In recent years the evidence for the health benefits of fibre , or ‘ roughage ’ as it used to be called , has grown so strong that it has filtered through from the medical journals and is now well known to the British and American public . |
| 29 | There are many large quintas in Monte as it used to be favoured by the rich who moved up to their summer houses when it became too hot and humid in Funchal . |
| 30 | But I think you have to say the club 's just not as much as an event as it used to be . |