Example sentences of "it [modal v] [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ought a be in the knacker 's yard , ’ exclaimed a third . |
| 2 | It looks as if it ought to be with the compound ones but it 's not . |
| 3 | Turning 30 , 40 or 50 can be the start of something great Sex with a younger man — it ought to be on prescription ! |
| 4 | If we are sensible it ought to be against San Marino in February . ’ |
| 5 | If he 's going to make a speech it ought to be before too much champagne goes to too many heads . ’ |
| 6 | For me , I think the last paragraph in my paper in the Speaker of the week before last [ ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ ] was pretty good ; but it ought to be in verse . |
| 7 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 8 | But that 's his ‘ sic ’ , not mine — I deny all responsibility — so by rights it ought to be in square brackets instead . |
| 9 | ‘ Looks like it ought to be in a museum , ’ Donna said with awe , fingering the inlaid panel on the top . |
| 10 | As an historian I know how valuable a commodity — and I mean valuable in terms of hard cash — it ought to be in these days when the whole of life , our own present as well as the past , seems to reach us pre-packaged in the form of interviews and telly-probe . |
| 11 | So , you either decide to start again , or you cut and paste , often laboriously , to move the range to where you think it ought to be in the first place . |
| 12 | That 's a factor of something like three hundred per cent than it , than it ought to be in terms of inflation and the County Treasurer 's budget of plus five per cent which is well in excess of two hundred per cent . |
| 13 | He did not concern himself with the business of creating such a society , only with the description of what it ought to be like : the actual propositions in the book are not to be taken literally , in other words , since he was offering only the ideal model of a better civilization . |
| 14 | pathetic , it 's gon na freeze up again this afternoon down at Bournemouth , gon na have fish off the pier , go for some bees , but I could n't be bothered but there was nothing , it was too damn cold , it must of been minus five with the wind chill factor |
| 15 | It must of been about what ? |
| 16 | it must of been about Tuesday , it must of been first day |
| 17 | now that tape that 's in now , tt , there 's a little bit at the front of that and it 's been on , oh it must of been on a fortnight and it does n't matter what you record |
| 18 | it must of been at the end in the autumn at , at least of fifty one |
| 19 | it 's not sticky and if you get it all over you shows how cold it must of been in the night , the butter wo n't spread |
| 20 | Just er it might of been of course I had plants through there it might have been |
| 21 | well it might of been on Radio Times , but |
| 22 | Which is what it used to be of course is n't it ? |
| 23 | Where 's the ray-gun gone ? ’ she asked , looking to where it used to be on the side wall . |
| 24 | And we used to have what they call er a stick and goos it used to I remember we used to have sti what you call stick and goos It was like a great long thing like that and you used to have a stick and it used to be on the floor and you just tap it and and hit it like that and it goes |
| 25 | Oh yes , oh yes , oh mum went there for years and years every Saturday yeah , and as I say the wagonettes used to erm be stationed up by Albion Street , to take er shopping and , and er and Rushbrooks used to be the big confectioners then , that 's on the , it used to be on the corner of erm Albion , well there 's a market there , an indoor market now is n't there yeah they were the er the big confectioners Rushbrooks , and er bakers and confectioners and er all the barrels of flour used to be , you could see all that going in you know but er I do n't know whether it is , am I making it interesting , is it interesting for you ? |
| 26 | I mean , it used to be on a Friday , then it used to be on a Saturday , only sometimes like I used to watch it . |
| 27 | I mean , it used to be on a Friday , then it used to be on a Saturday , only sometimes like I used to watch it . |
| 28 | it used to be at a different time of the year , though , did n't it ? |
| 29 | ( It used to be at more frequent intervals , but this was found to be too disruptive . ) |
| 30 | Saddest export a convoy of lorries begins the long journey to China and , inset , the furnace as it used to be at the height of production Picture : VIC CLEVELEY |