Example sentences of "they [vb mod] to [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Mill was against a secret ballot , Mill thought votes ought to be cast publicly and the reason for this is that he thought people ought to be voting on their view of what is right and so therefore they ought to be publicly accountable . |
| 2 | They used to be just another attraction at a children 's zoo — but then they learned to trampoline . |
| 3 | They used to be extremely good value ; now they are eminently ignorable . |
| 4 | ‘ In Victorian times they used to be about 35 inches wide ; now they can be as narrow as 30 inches . |
| 5 | They used , they used to be about ten quid and you , we all thought it was really good value and went to all of them but erm they 've gone up to like eighteen pounds well that was the last one I went to last year so some of them are twenty two and I paid thirty for one of them but that was at the erm Savoy Hotel that little bluebird one , that 's a real debs ' ball . |
| 6 | They used to be absolutely beautiful there but they 're crap now ! |
| 7 | I was just discussing this last night , but they used to be more friendly atmospheres , even with the away supporters years ago you know it was but things go full circle in the end and hopefully like I say we 're getting back to some sort of sanity now . |
| 8 | I mean usually that just does n't work because I mean the Guardian , they used to be more bold expanded in the Guardian except for and it was gross . |