Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody agrees that accounts ought to be useful . |
| 2 | Dragons ought to be big and green and clawed and exotic and firebreathing — big and green with long sharp … |
| 3 | Well I think that schools ought to be open . |
| 4 | But such a future , Eliot wrote , was not one in which he or his readers ought to be interested . |
| 5 | Pension funds ought to be immune from the performance of the company to which they relate , so that employees ' pensions are safeguarded even if the company is experiencing difficulties . |
| 6 | The pull 's fairly heavy , but someone with your shoulders ought to be able to manage . ’ |
| 7 | Life insurers used to be able to show any profit from selling a bond in the year in which they traded it . |
| 8 | Magnetic materials made up of nanocrystals ought to be better because their magnetism can be switched on and off more swiftly . |
| 9 | Now this may sound like fatuous bluster but suspicion of businessmen ought to be understandable in an era of commerce made squalid by stock-market muggings on a grand scale . |
| 10 | ( These two functions ought to be separate . |
| 11 | The chapels used to be full , the chapels used to be full . |
| 12 | The chapels used to be full , the chapels used to be full . |
| 13 | Demolition sites used to be wonderful sources of all manner of material . |
| 14 | So the true task of adult education these days ought to be first and foremost to equip a sufficient body of ordinary citizens so that they are capable of forming rationally grounded opinions upon matters of public importance . |
| 15 | The Government 's proposition is simple : a person making a claim that may date back a great many years ought to be able to produce some evidence to back it up . |
| 16 | If General Motors has a worse credit rating than Toyota , its borrowing costs ought to be higher . |
| 17 | ‘ Then the workers ought to be stronger . ’ |
| 18 | Looking back on his earlier career , he said : ‘ Banks used to be terrible at monitoring their own costs and profitability . |
| 19 | 15.8.2 Arbitration appeals used to be commonplace |
| 20 | And somewhere through the hotel muzak lurks the sensation that things used to be different , that we ( my brother and I ) had n't always been wrapped in jumpers , silent , staring at the screen , that the days used to be hot and long . |
| 21 | For the sake of the stability of the continent , ‘ bona fide ’ Europeans ought to be sure what they think . |
| 22 | Therefore providers ought to be able to agree to contracts for these services at a lower price . |
| 23 | A Department of Energy spokesman said : ‘ Hopefully this should not lead to power cuts in most cases because distributors ought to be able to get supplies from other area boards . ’ |
| 24 | So anyone who 's putting up a lot of their own money is untrustworthy and there should be limitation on how much people can stand , erm Mill actually goes into some figures at this point and rather quaintly says erm either fifty pounds or a hundred pounds ought to be adequate and I do n't know what that translates to now . |
| 25 | far from happy with the plan print room with the er er o o o and suggest that the businesses ought to be concerned about the way that their records are stored in their plan room . |
| 26 | And somewhere through the hotel muzak lurks the sensation that things used to be different , that we ( my brother and I ) had n't always been wrapped in jumpers , silent , staring at the screen , that the days used to be hot and long . |
| 27 | Also sending-offs used to be rare . |
| 28 | The monks used to be responsible for the education of the boys , teaching them the three Rs and the elements of Buddhism , the learning being almost entirely by rote , so that approaching a village one could often hear from a distance the shrill boyish voices as they repeated the lesson after their teacher . |
| 29 | In a publishing deal , the average splits used to be 50:50 . |
| 30 | Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn . |