Example sentences of "but it [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , another few weeks in prison wo n't make much difference to your brother , but it might to my niece . |
| 2 | But it might to someone else . |
| 3 | Probably having keys would bee greeted with horror by some , but it ought to be possible to rationalise the finger holes . |
| 4 | It may not be a legal partnership , but it ought to be one ethically . |
| 5 | The Sports Council will await Universiade GB 's concurrence with the deal before nominating their man , but it ought to be one of their members with business acumen — which means either David Simon of BP , who is most unlikely to have the time , Raymond Michel , formerly with a distillery , or Norman Jacobs , a partner in one of Britain 's largest firms of solicitors . |
| 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 | But it ought to be easier . |
| 8 | The Health and Safety at Work Act has made us rather more concerned about smells and bangs and the dangers these cause , so perhaps life is a little bit less smelly than it was , perhaps a little less exciting , but it ought to be a little longer too . |
| 9 | Second , he continued , life was indeed bad — but it used to be much worse . |
| 10 | It might seem churlish to ask for flavour as well as the chance to save the planet , but it used to be there before the planet needed saving . |
| 11 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
| 12 | But it used to be different then … there was n't no atmosphere like there is now and there were n't no fence around the London Road like now … |
| 13 | But it used to be called a ragged school . |
| 14 | But it used to be called Broadmarsh . |
| 15 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 16 | I tried it , but it used to , I used to , I just did not like fish |
| 17 | Er but it used to er shed its leaves . |