Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [vb mod] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | The standard of the bishop of Tours 's Latin used to be seen as ruling out this possibility . |
2 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
3 | For most of the past two years , after the first cracks in the ice were heard , Eastern Europe 's future used to be seen something like this . |
4 | Easily Accessible : Bridport is an interesting Saxon town , historically famous for its rope-making — a hangman 's noose used to be known as a Bridport dagger . |
5 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has said that the weight to be given to an employee 's conduct ought to be decided ‘ in a broad , common sense manner ’ . |
6 | Mr Mubarak 's cautiousness used to be welcomed as an antidote to the histrionics of Nasser and Sadat . |
7 | By this stage , the pursuer 's agents ought to be prepared for Proof and ought , therefore , to be more receptive to arguments concerning actual weaknesses in their case than may have been true at an earlier stage . |
8 | It can , however , be alternatively and more cogently maintained that all of Craig 's papers ought to be examined , just as Paisley 's were in the disposal of his surplus . |
9 | 2.41 He went on to say that it should not be assumed that the wife 's dependency ought to be calculated on the footing that it would have ceased when her husband ceased earning before he reached 65 . |
10 | " On the top of the hill near King Darzin 's palace there was a garden and here his many children and his chief followers ' children used to be taken to play by their mothers and nursemaids . |