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 .
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