Example sentences of "it [vb mod] to [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it ought to be a regular feature , a regular feature for everywhere regardless , because it was felt that er during the the May play which proved to be wrong |
| 2 | It ought to be a single , but it 's filled with an old double bed they must have folded in half to squeeze in here , and the internal walls are cheap partitions from where they gutted the Edwardian interior and crammed in as many cubicles as they could . |
| 3 | But do you feel it ought to be a free market erm situation , at least to the extent that anyone can move into any area they wish to provided they could find a place to live ? |
| 4 | I was stiff and he was supple , and it ought to be the other way round . |
| 5 | It ought to be the easiest thing in the world . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't know whether it ought to be the Foreign Office , the Home Office or the Ministry of Defence . ’ |
| 7 | It used to be a bloody do-it-yourself shop ! |
| 8 | It used to be a marvellous one |
| 9 | Then occasionally when we had houses broken into and so on , if it was thought that a tramp could have been responsible , it used to be a great help if we gave out nine tickets for tramps and only eight of the nine were admitted to the casual ward , then we should clamp down of course on the one who failed to turn up . |
| 10 | It used to be a cheap meal Ann . |
| 11 | ‘ Really , ’ sighed Mr Punch when he had got it all off his chest , ‘ from the outrages which have been late perpetrated , one might think that one was living now in London as it used to be a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 12 | Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours . |
| 13 | It used to be a good town for the hides trappers brought down out of the hills , but that trade is gone now , along with many another . |
| 14 | It used to be a tremendous transition from 1 April when you realised you would n't have the garden to yourself until quite suddenly at the end of October when everybody goes . |
| 15 | It used to be a major debate at this congress . |
| 16 | It used to be a large wooded area , a rich tropical forest with many species , including gibbons , macaques , tigers , panthers , wild boars , deer , bears and several kinds of pheasants , most of which are now rare in Vietnam . |
| 17 | It used to be a popular theory that death-feigning animals were somehow self-hypnotised , or that they were thrown into such an acute state of shock by their tormentors that they went into an unconscious , cataleptic state , as though from a fit or seizure . |
| 18 | It used to be the normal practice to adapt buildings for different purposes over their lives . |
| 19 | Oh yes , oh yes each side and er there , some , a few came round erm where it used to be the old picture house , a few came around up as far as Rushbrooks and erm further up towards erm now then The Central , there 's a school that they used to call it The Central but erm |
| 20 | Course , it it used to be the old rough gravel road . |
| 21 | It is a large breed and , known as the Big Red , it used to be the biggest breed in Britain . |
| 22 | It used to be the twenty first of October . |
| 23 | THE name of the current month shows in its Latin origins that it used to be the 10th month of the year , not the 12th . |
| 24 | IT USED to be an easy decision , and still is for many racing fans — the first weekend in October is the time to visit Paris . |
| 25 | It used to be an important port for small sailing ships but now the sea trade in large ships has moved to Liverpool . |