Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [vb mod] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industry in this town used to be great but everything 's shutting . |
| 2 | Again he follows Aristotle in believing that each child ought to be male and that a female is the result of misadventure . |
| 3 | The second supposition is ideological , that ownership ought to be individual . |
| 4 | Clearly , each such area ought to be able to make some contribution to analysing George and Marie 's problems . |
| 5 | Neither group ought to be disappointed by what they hear . |
| 6 | So the true task of adult education these days ought to be first and foremost to equip a sufficient body of ordinary citizens so that they are capable of forming rationally grounded opinions upon matters of public importance . |
| 7 | The Government 's proposition is simple : a person making a claim that may date back a great many years ought to be able to produce some evidence to back it up . |
| 8 | Of course I must add a , a word of warning here , because whereas once upon a time many people used to be able to ring the Weather Centres or a Met Office to get their own personal forecast , which was very nice , we enjoyed doing this , it has now got to the stage where so many people are trying to ring us that we just can not deal with all the enquiries personally , and we 're looking into ways and means of erm providing forecasts of this sort of nature , they 're general sort of nature , by other means , such as radio and television . |
| 9 | And surely any dramatist ought to be able to move us with that final night of Holly 's life , when his musicians ( including Waylon Jennings ) gave their places on the ‘ plane to the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens . |
| 10 | Yes , you have to dig down as far as you can to get the roots in properly but , you know , it should be just the depth of one spade , so most people ought to be able to dig a hole that size . |