Example sentences of "they [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Similarly — though the outcome is happier — with Craig 's votes : all of them , the original as well as the transferred , contributed to his surplus , so all of them ought to be taken into account in its transfer .
2 I mean you u some of them used to be the growth roll up , you know the
3 Found out one , one of them used to be a staff trainer .
4 The second group , that most of them would of been since the report and each of them .
5 And course , they had , with us you know at one time and now they 've got that holiday again now , so I mean none of them would of been cheap when they did it .
6 oh , they may of been updated then , the question I asked you was a different one , when was the moment when they became inaccurate ?
7 In fact , those who most seem to be themselves appear to me people impersonating what they think they might like to be , believe they ought to be , or wish to be taken to be by whoever is setting standards .
8 questions were being raised about what the police were doing , what they ought to be doing and how they ought to be organised and accountable .
9 questions were being raised about what the police were doing , what they ought to be doing and how they ought to be organised and accountable .
10 This , I believe , is against the law , but it is a law that deserves to be broken , for it is the puritanical nonsense of excluding children — and therefore to some extent , women — from pubs that has turned these places into mere boozing-shops instead of the family gathering-places that they ought to be . ’
11 The belated realization that these things are no longer so leads to the embittered and baffled reaction that they ought to be so .
12 They ought to be examining and cross-examining Dudley Wood , Clive Rowlands , Rhys Williams and Terry Vaux .
13 They ought to be celebrated in season .
14 In consequence , European collaboration is fraught and costly : operational requirements are made more complex than they ought to be by the need for compromise ; sharing development leads to mismatches of components that have to be corrected late on in programmes ; and divided production and assembly increases overheads and puts up costs .
15 They ought to be baked today . ’
16 Different thoughts , but one thought : Secord would suddenly explode to the interpreter , ‘ He 's still not talking about the god-damned hostage thing ! ’ ; or , in North 's exasperated words , ‘ if we 're really sincere about this whole friggin' thing … they ought to be exercising every possible amount of leverage they 've got to get those people out . ’
17 If anyone claims to be making a factual statement , then they ought to be able to state what observations would be relevant to determining the truth or falsity of that statement .
18 Whatever arrangements are made they ought to be convenient for the parents and not just for the school .
19 Perhaps they ought to be in the British Library .
20 The duty of the police when they arrest without warrant is , no doubt , to be quick to see the possibility of crime , but equally they ought to be anxious to avoid mistaking the innocent for the guilty …
21 I do n't quite know why , but anyhow if they do feel old at 75 , then they ought to be shaken up a bit .
22 They are good , but as people they 're not as good as they ought to be .
23 Another neglected master emerged on three LPs of Piano Sonatas by Harold Truscott , played , as in the Founds , by the indefatigable peter Jacobs ; they revealed a muscial thinker of a very high order who has been , and still is , cruelly ignored by the muscial establishment ( again , I understand that John Ogdon 's recording for Altarus of Truscott 's Tenth is due for release soon — and I would also make a plea for a re-issue of those other Sonatas on CD : they are contrapuntal masterpieces , sometimes witty , often beautiful , and they ought to be much more widely known ) .
24 They ought to be near him soon .
25 Sister Mary Leahy , who organised the prayer week at Seacroft , explained the purpose of these personal interviews ; ‘ Prayer is a relationship with God , so as a prayer guide , I would want to help people to recognise God in their lives — relating person to person — speaking to God and listening to him — coming to God just as they are and not as they think they ought to be . ’
26 We wish also to persuade him that once he takes fully into account that his ultimate goals are spontaneous ( are , not ought to be ; what they ought to be is intelligent as well as spontaneous ) , he will require no first principle other than ‘ Be aware ’ for choosing between them .
27 Cost-cutting to us was taking 5% off things that were double what they ought to be .
28 It has dawned on the stock market that accounts are not as reliable as they ought to be and that dubious accounting practices may reflect underlying difficulties or at least lead to some distortion in the market 's valuation of a company 's shares .
29 From there they ought to be able to gain a better notion of Balliol 's intentions .
30 It was in their interests to make work for the dental profession and sell vitamin C , not to let it get about that simply by keeping their hands where they ought to be young people could have healthy teeth and gums for life .
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