Example sentences of "about what [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As such , the operation was essentially different from planning which involved prior political judgements about what ought to be achieved . |
| 2 | The larger question , then , is not about what is , but about what ought to be . |
| 3 | But no transgression against Hume 's stricture is involved in pointing out that people 's views about what ought to be — their moral stance and outlook — may be directly related to certain distinctive features of their lives . |
| 4 | They were the North Riding Authority , er the East Riding Authority , the West Riding Authority , all of which converged on the on the city of York , and as you read through the files , er you will see that even then the D O E were trying to get erm those er those predecessor authorities in the late fifties , early sixties er to come to some view about what ought to be better for Greater York , so for many years the idea of Greater York ha has been current er in one guise or another . |
| 5 | He explained the British problem to the Germans by saying that the British people had been lied to — they had not been told the truth about what used to be called the Common Market and is now called the European Community . |