Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb mod] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I affirm it to have been a fine active stock of books which ought to be available in any good library service … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Heavy provisions have already driven some societies into losses : something else which used to be unknown in the industry . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What ought to be exciting about Mammame is the unpredictability with which an image or a movement switches into something new . |
| 10 | The continued squeeze on defence procurement , combined with a demand for ever-more complex weaponry , has encouraged NATO to think the once-unthinkable : a code of practice for defence companies that should wring better value for money out of what used to be one of the capitalist world 's most protected and pampered industries . |
| 11 | The Martin Gropius building is an imposing brick block , which stands on what used to be one of the borders between East and West Berlin . |