Example sentences of "who [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From opposite ends of England the academics said that this was a born teacher who ought to be in teaching as soon as possible . |
| 2 | Of someone who ought to be a Friend |
| 3 | Of someone who ought to be a friend . |
| 4 | I suspect that some of the drug barons who shell out money in support of what must be a pretty costly operation regard the academically-minded staff of the OHE as a bunch of eggheads , not to say ‘ wets ’ , who ought to be earning their keep by polishing up the industry 's somewhat tarnished image , and by encouraging sales , instead of spending their time and the companies ' profits on airy-fairy projects which are n't going to rustle up a pennyworth of business . |
| 5 | She 's the one who ought to be got rid of . |
| 6 | And what use is it to provide more and more high-performance cultural facilities ( an unpleasing phrase ) if the artists who ought to be benefiting from them are lacking ? |
| 7 | Such is my concern for the liberty of the subject that I am prepared to allow a contemnor who ought to be punished for contempt to go unpunished ; and that is so , notwithstanding that Parliament envisages that I could consider imposing a just punishment . ’ |
| 8 | There is a subspecies called philosophers of science who ought to be better equipped . |
| 9 | This was a very trying time for me , and the people who ought to be offering support were offering only insults . |
| 10 | And it 's a very different matter if you can start tracing sexual spider 's webs that link fabulous-looking women with men who ought to be unrelated : secretaries of state on the one hand and ( say ) drug-dealers , gun-runners , con-men , terrorists or Russian spies on the other . |
| 11 | ‘ As far as I could judge , he thought me an incompetent idiot who ought to be minding his own business . |
| 12 | Replacing the motherboard or fitting one of these accelerator cards is a fairly simple job , if you 're confident to do it , but those of a nervous disposition would be well advised to seek assistance from their local dealer , who ought to be able to do the job very quickly . |
| 13 | It seems strange that one so cunning and evil can ambitiously vie for a place in our admiration , contend with those who ought to be foremost in our favour , namely God , Adam and Eve , and win a victorious battle in our imagination . |
| 14 | Your specific tasks within that given work are assigned to you by a person called your manager ( or boss or supervisor ) , who ought to be held accountable for the work you do . |
| 15 | The prisoners themselves are often seen as failures , who ought to be made to support their families , though the system does little to help bring that about . |
| 16 | Gesner was the one who ought to be slapped , but he had at least done the decent thing in abandoning Suzi . |
| 17 | Yes , you 're comparative performances as investigators will , well even that should n't differ all that much because those that have got Sarah available to them those are the teams who ought to be capable of concentrating more on their stage two work , should n't they ? |
| 18 | You 're the one who ought to be worrying . ’ |
| 19 | The Poor Law had been most effective in forcing all those who could to be self-helping . |
| 20 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 21 | Yes , he says , he does meet fellow Vietnamese workers who used to be in Germany but , no , they do not discuss politics . |
| 22 | Last year nearly seven million people watched the final , some way below the 12 and 13 million who used to be enthralled by snooker . |
| 23 | I amaze myself — I , who used to be terrified of the unlit hallway — ready to sit it out , unafraid ; friends with the living darkness . |
| 24 | After coming into caddying quite late in life — when he was thirty years old — Nick , who used to be a baseball player and was ‘ quite good at it ’ , perfected his catching trick with his first professional , George Archer , who lived on a farm . |
| 25 | It is the self-designation preferred by those who used to be known as queers , poofs , homos , by those who like to call a spade a bloody shovel . |
| 26 | Nowadays , nobility is on the side of those who used to be called Redmen , hardly surprising to anyone who has read any of the dreadful history of the spread of Europeans across the West . |
| 27 | A few years ago — before 1986 — I was at a party with a few friends and we met some people who used to be in athletics . |
| 28 | ‘ You mean the old fortune-teller who used to be here ? |
| 29 | DE VALERA : A man who used to be President Of Ireland before he turned into Jimmy Stewart . |
| 30 | Thatcher really did have a sex change , and the one she changed with was Paddy Ashdown , who used to be a man . |