Example sentences of "which [vb mod] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument advanced here is that insider dealing is the sort of conduct which ought to be criminal . |
| 2 | I affirm it to have been a fine active stock of books which ought to be available in any good library service … |
| 3 | In summary , we can say that public law rules and principles ( including the rules of judicial review ) ought to apply to the exercise ( or non-exercise ) of public functions ; and that public functions are functions which ought to be subject to public law controls . |
| 4 | The vast and highly mechanized modern industry of printing , which can be found in every town and city in the kingdom , has been dispersed during five hundred years from this one spot which ought to be holy ground to the industrialist as well as the Christian . |
| 5 | The keys were rather dirty and the ribbon wearing out , which is why the letters which ought to be open , like the ‘ e ’ and the ‘ a ’ , are n't giving sharp outlines . |
| 6 | Strength of character and a confident decisiveness were implicit in the hardness of that darkly handsome face , and while the curve of his lower lip was disturbingly sensual , there was a fastidiousness there too which ought to be reassuring . |
| 7 | The question was thoroughly investigated by Johnson ( 1919 ) , who showed that the processes should result in differences in offshore profiles , which ought to be detectable in actual examples . |
| 8 | Much of the labour which used to be involved in manipulating and presenting data can now be delegated to specialised computer software but the basic issues of coding and structuring data still depend on the skills of the analyst . |
| 9 | Her eyes , which used to be dull and filmy , have got some of their sparkle back . |
| 10 | This puts services which used to be available free from the hospital out of reach of patients on low income and those with chronic health conditions who require multidisciplinary care . |
| 11 | However , and it also has a down- side because now the contractors will be able to see the information which used to be confidential that local authorities will be putting on the table , but the point is it 's a chink , it 's a way forward we need to build on this . |
| 12 | THE Dutch government is not fond of Lieut-Colonel Desi Bouterse , who runs the army and scares politicians in Suriname , the Latin American country which used to be Dutch Guiana . |
| 13 | It was not so much that the match was any more frantic or violent than usual , but rather that there were in evidence throughout the afternoon , a lot of faces quick to register those expressions which used to be peculiar to spoiled infants whose worn-out parents had cracked and dared to cross their wills . |
| 14 | Er these are guaranteed areas , annuities , local authority loans , which used to be popular , pay gross , but they 're not around that much these days , they 're not that competitive . |
| 15 | Heavy provisions have already driven some societies into losses : something else which used to be unknown in the industry . |
| 16 | And they have agreed a uniform black colour scheme for all garages to prevent mix-ups with petrol , which used to be common in the early days of the diesel revolution . |
| 17 | Which used to be common place . |