Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ninety five percent of American political scientists are liberal democrats they did n't like that , so they wrote books criticizing congress and saying the president ought to have more power . |
| 2 | Nothing short of absolute impossibility ought to prevent those measures from being taken which will as soon as possible restore the — pre-war productivity of the building industry in new houses . |
| 3 | However , serious doubt has been cast on the methodology used to collect this data on extra costs , suggesting that it grossly underestimates the true costs . |
| 4 | This in turn depends upon the criterion used to establish left handedness . |
| 5 | He also probably invented the sun and planet gear used to obtain rotary motion on Watt engines . |
| 6 | The hon. Lady ought to examine local authority budgets . |
| 7 | The ladder is where the buckets er er run on you see that 's the ladder like that from what they call the top tumbler what used to be the top tumbler used to have five sides |
| 8 | At one time villages had to be more self-sufficient and the village used to have more shops and trades than there are now . |
| 9 | And the surround used to have nice fancy work round you know to make it so it would n't stand on the table cos me mother bought one of those because it used to be a bit dangerous on the table if you knocked it you see and |
| 10 | Now the splitting machine used to cut that skin down there like that . |
| 11 | The heir ought to redeem pledged lands left by legacy or trust , especially when the testator knew of their condition or , had he known , would have bequeathed you something else of equal value . |
| 12 | And the move , if successful , would be part of a package used to attract new businesses to Darlington . |
| 13 | There are subdivisions within the Brahmin caste and Chari belonged to one of them : her dead husband used to conduct religious ceremonies for the Harijans of the area . |
| 14 | The pagan world was familiar with the widespread beliefs that sexual contact between man and woman hindered the soul 's rise to higher things , and even that one who has been favoured with the love of a god ought to forgo mortal love . |
| 15 | My old hairdresser used to do this style , only it looked much better when he did it . |
| 16 | The means the Court used to reach that result are open to question . |
| 17 | We also saw the ‘ Concubine 's Pool ’ where the Emperor 's favourite concubine used to bathe many centuries ago , and had a bath in the hot spring water ourselves before lunch . |
| 18 | The metal used to make hot water pipes . |
| 19 | That used to be with er a piece of net in and across the top used to have two piece of wire , one way , and two piece the other and you catch a crab open the crab open and they used to put the crab between there and the whelks used to feed on the crab and then when you pulled it out , they all went to the bottom of the net . |
| 20 | In printed tables , even the comma used to subdivide large numbers into groups of three digits is often replaced with advantage by a small gap . |
| 21 | ‘ Gran used to put threepenny stamps on postcards . |
| 22 | The capital income used to finance that income ( 7.0bn in 1984/5 ) can be raised from several sources including 1 ) capital grants from the government or , occasionally , other bodies ( such as the Sports Council ) ; 2 ) sales of land , property , equipment and so on ; and 3 ) loans . |
| 23 | He left four-fifths of his residuary estate to the Royal Society and the remainder to the Society of Chemical Industry , stipulating that the capital should be kept intact and the income used to encourage scientific research . |
| 24 | The miners agreed not to carry weapons and to control the use of mercury used to purify alluvial gold . |
| 25 | Signal averaging is a technique used to decrease random noise in the amplified ECG in order to enhance the detection of signals only a few microvolts in amplitude . |
| 26 | … is a technique used to identify potential customers and their needs . |
| 27 | My mum used to say such thing as like you know bacon 's better from |
| 28 | Disease of and damage to the macula , the central area of the retina used to discriminate fine detail , can give rise to these effects and precise information about the child 's eye condition is needed in order to understand the reason for these apparent anomalies . |
| 29 | ( Funnily enough , years later in France I saw in the Orange branch of the Credit Agricole exactly the same slogan used to advertise personal loans . ) |
| 30 | ( As the Guardian showed last week , Mr Parkinson 's unwitting connection was through having had his money used to buy 50,000 shares in Newman Industries — since renamed Avdel — where Suter 's stake-building eventually prompted a takeover . ) |