Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [vb mod] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , she said a lot of good things about how housework and things were essential social work — you know , saying it was work , hard work , servicing other people , not that airy fairy labour of love stuff , and how it ought to be recognised , and how it was because women were seen as wives and mothers that they got low wages , no money when they were at home looking after small kids . |
| 2 | If any of the Lords or great ‘ Herren ’ in England wished to lay out an new garden or remake an old one , Mr. Miller would always show them how it ought to be done . |
| 3 | But the right letters are there , even if they 're in the wrong order , so he knows how it ought to be spelled , up to a point . |
| 4 | And the junior school would sit on the floor in the front and that 's how it used to be arranged . |
| 5 | So that is a Jacquard , and that 's an electronic Jacquard , means you can do all sorts of different patterns now , where it used to be limited it 's unlimited now . |
| 6 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |