Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] [be] [verb] that [det] " in BNC.

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1 It used to be said that any salmon running up the Dee made a one-way journey .
2 It used to be held that most of the psalms were personal poems of pious Jews after the exile .
3 It used to be thought that this was temporary diabetes resulting from the stress of infarction , but present data suggest that these patients have undiagnosed diabetes before infarction ( Husband et al , 1983 ; Oswald et al , 1984 ) .
4 It ought to be said that this particular extract poses more difficulties than the normal run of parish registers .
5 While that may seem an attractive option for a young partner , it ought to be remembered that such payments will come out of his taxed income .
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