Example sentences of "that it [modal v] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From saying that a thing ought to belong to a man , that it ought to be used for his benefit , you come to saying that it actually is his , ‘ in equity ’ or ‘ in conscience ’ . |
| 2 | I received a few not so long ago complaining about this place , saying that it does not speak of God ; that it is a monument to a man-made religion ; that it ought to be pulled down and a block of flats built here instead , and the money spent on missionary work abroad . |
| 3 | ‘ The imagination is the distinguishing characteristic of man as a progressive being ; and I repeat that it ought to be carefully guided and strengthened as the indispensable means and instrument of continued amelioration and refinement . ’ |
| 4 | They need no persuading that it ought to be done . ’ |
| 5 | Only then will our worship become the sweet fragrance to God that it ought to be . |
| 6 | It is in fact a movement : a coming together of teachers whose common conviction it is that teaching up to now has been conducted in far too random and amateurish a fashion , based at best on a kind of inspired guesswork , and that it ought to be possible by putting our minds to it , and applying the sort of thinking that is successful in other fields , to do a better job than before . |
| 7 | I think that it is n't a general skill it at needs to be commented on , I think that it needs to commented on I think that it ought to be commented on in the comment box . |
| 8 | Lots of people want it to , er suggest that it ought to be holiday but |
| 9 | One of the points you make in your er evidence erm Mr is that because topic area D thirty nine is shown as being within the conservation area , that it ought to be included within the greenbelt . |
| 10 | Others , several of them very distinguished , recognized that great care was necessary but believed that they were seeing something so important that it ought to be properly investigated . |
| 11 | Its reason for treating consensual anal intercourse separately is stated thus : ‘ This distinctive conduct has such potentialities of physical and psychological damage that it ought to be distinguished from lesser forms of sexual conduct . ’ |
| 12 | From the definition of IT above , it should be clear that IT ought to be able to offer a lot to mathematics learning in schools and colleges — but how much , in fact , has IT affected it ? |
| 13 | Did in fact with the Greater York districts initially take a view that it ought to be eight miles . |
| 14 | It seems to me that it ought to be our policy that we ought to try and locate people who go into these sorts of residencies as close to the people who will be concerned for their welfare as possible erm and that therefore there would be a strong case for making that sort of exception in those cases . |
| 15 | Erm I think in the first instance , an assessment needs to be done of all the la of the landscape quality and I would suggest that it ought to be directed away from from areas of high landscape quality , towards areas of a lower landscape quality . |
| 16 | What I 'm suggesting is that it ought to be possible to design an inner northern relief road with an appropriate junction and with appropriate traffic managements in the centre of Harrogate so that you can encourage a significant proportion of the traffic that would otherwise have used the western relief road to divert to the southern bypass and inner relief road . |
| 17 | I would have thought that it is in the government 's interest to promote efficiency , it 's certainly in the government 's interest to maintain the public interest with regard er to fraud or other wrong doing er but it 's something that the government ought to look at and again it seems to me that it ought to be a matter that er could be looked at if there was a proper inquiry . |
| 18 | I think that it ought to be self-evident , erm if we 've done our programme in a way which er , is clear or if we 've presented it in a clear fashion , then I think sequence and clashes er and safety , to a large extent , become self-evident . |
| 19 | I still got this little housewife feeling that it ought to be ready when you come in the door you know . |
| 20 | The military regime in Iraq laid claim to Kuwait on the grounds that it used to be part of the Ottoman province of Basra . |
| 21 | I have stopped telling customers that it used to be ripened under piles of manure , as it seemed to stop them from buying it . |
| 22 | ‘ The great thing about pop music in the past is that it used to be about pushing everything . |
| 23 | THE name of the current month shows in its Latin origins that it used to be the 10th month of the year , not the 12th . |
| 24 | But er it 's not the road that that that it used to be . |
| 25 | So I just , it used to be , you see that it used to be W G and Sons . |
| 26 | ‘ It is n't the stigma that it used to be and — ’ |
| 27 | A village which started looking into its own history has discovered that it used to be somewhere else . |
| 28 | THOUGH much smaller in numbers that it used to be , Courtaulds Italia has managed to weld together a team which blends experience with freshness . |