Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cattle of Scotland used to be of many colours but predominantly black and of the Highland or Galloway type . |
| 2 | In January 1928 he was invited back to speak at the Cambridge Union , on the motion that the Church of England ought to be disestablished . |
| 3 | The Bank of England used to be the City 's leader ; in recent times it has seemed content to be its cheerleader . |
| 4 | Finch , however , denounced the 1300 perambulation as ‘ false and erroneous ’ , and coerced the Grand Jury and Forest officers into returning a verdict ‘ that the Meetes and Boundes of the Forrest of Deane ought to be according to the Perambulations made ’ in 1228 and 1282 . |
| 5 | Finally , it suggested that interconnection with the Republic of Ireland ought to be re-eastablished . |
| 6 | What we can not countenance though sir , is any widening o of the route that they seek to go down , to have these sites included in the greenbelt , and that 's to say to entertain the argument that the whole of Skelton ought to be washed-over . |
| 7 | At a rough guess , Pierremont Gardens today stands where the real gardens of Pierremont used to be . |
| 8 | The people of Birmingham ought to be allowed to vote on this all-important issue . |
| 9 | The greater part of the property of Britain used to be surrounded by a kind of magic circle within which the law of honesty could not penetrate . |