Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [vb mod] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean you used to be able to go ah ! |
2 | Yeah well come on I mean we ought to be able to be a little bit more creative than that . |
3 | I know I ought to be different , but there it is . |
4 | Remember it used to be three inches long and now a foot long , with a flapper |
5 | I mean there ought to be many more people on the right side , as it were , rather than the wrong side . |
6 | ‘ Thanks , although I suppose I ought to be thankful it was n't a kiwi you likened me to . ’ |
7 | I feel I ought to be nice to them wherever possible . |
8 | ‘ I suppose we ought to be grateful to Eleanor , ’ she said wryly . |
9 | ‘ But I suppose we ought to be sensible and try to get some sleep , ’ she added reluctantly . |
10 | I feel we ought to be able to give you a better idea of the performance of different planning authorities . |
11 | They feel they ought to be immune and , in their health , superior to lay people . |
12 | I reckon it ought to be compulsory that . |
13 | ‘ I mean they used to be taller . |
14 | ‘ Now you cheap shamus , with the underhanded methods you use you ought to be able to figure this out before the cops get around to it . |
15 | Erm I think I ought to be brief on this . |
16 | I think we ought to be pleased at the money made available in the last 5 years for players . |
17 | If they ca n't get sufficient profit out of supplying gas in the U K I think British Gas is on the verge of withdrawing from the gas market in the U K , and that a lot of jobs in this country and I think we ought to be aware of that and I think we ought to be campaigning to make sure that does n't happen . |
18 | erm I think we ought to be aware of the implications of what is happening to our population locally , regionally , nationally , globally . |
19 | The private sector probably has even more flexibility to find imaginative ways of addressing those issues than the statutory services ; I think we ought to be prepared to give backing . |