Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb mod] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything but to raise her eyes and see him there where she ought to be . |
| 2 | ‘ Where you ought to be , Me1li . |
| 3 | It was in their interests to make work for the dental profession and sell vitamin C , not to let it get about that simply by keeping their hands where they ought to be young people could have healthy teeth and gums for life . |
| 4 | This enabled him to look forward with confidence to continued improvements which would put the British plants back at the top of the performance league , where they used to be , and where they belonged . |
| 5 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 6 | Odette and the bairn still across the street just where they used to be . " |
| 7 | Where they used to be frozen and then you started another one wherever you went next time . |
| 8 | And there was a placement first floor , second floor , and where they used to be starting to live beautiful house ! |
| 9 | The draft Structure Plan Review will assess the requirement for new housing land and decide , in general terms , where it ought to be located . |
| 10 | There 's a lovely great open space , where it used to be all wood , which if you had plenty of money and could have enough gardeners could be made very exciting . ’ |
| 11 | PAMELA : [ aside ] I have a little tincture of jealousy too , which has made me more uneasy than I ought to be , particularly in the case of Miss Sally Godfrey and my fears of what might happen when we reach London . |
| 12 | She 's obviously a slag , no better than she ought to be . ’ |
| 13 | She was more relaxed than she used to be but still , in Dexter 's view , judged herself too harshly . |
| 14 | But Anya 's a better judge of character than she used to be , back in the old homeland . |
| 15 | She was more tired than she used to be , that was all . |
| 16 | 49% of you are more afraid of driving alone in the dark than you used to be . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're much more sensible than you used to be , but your mum ca n't see it , and my mum still thinks I 'm three and a half . ’ |
| 18 | I do n't think Gemma eats as well as these two do , she 's ever so finicky worse than you used to be . |
| 19 | ‘ And so you ought to be , ’ Narcissus continued . |
| 20 | Do n't say I 'll give you a bit of my advice on a lead , because er you have n't had the call so you ought to be on your best level . |
| 21 | Even more concerned than we ought to be |
| 22 | We 're more conscious of these things than we used to be , before . |
| 23 | Though we feel ourselves to be much more comfortable now than we used to be , there has been very little increase in domestic fuel demand over fifty years or more . |
| 24 | In consequence , European collaboration is fraught and costly : operational requirements are made more complex than they ought to be by the need for compromise ; sharing development leads to mismatches of components that have to be corrected late on in programmes ; and divided production and assembly increases overheads and puts up costs . |
| 25 | Because our lord the king had great zeal and desire to redress the state of the realm in such things as required amendment for the common profit of Holy Church and of the realm ; and because the state of Holy Church had been evil kept and the prelates and religious persons of the land grieved many ways , and the people otherwise entreated than they ought to be , and the peace less kept , and the laws less used , and the offenders less punished than they ought to be . |
| 26 | Because our lord the king had great zeal and desire to redress the state of the realm in such things as required amendment for the common profit of Holy Church and of the realm ; and because the state of Holy Church had been evil kept and the prelates and religious persons of the land grieved many ways , and the people otherwise entreated than they ought to be , and the peace less kept , and the laws less used , and the offenders less punished than they ought to be . |
| 27 | The scientists who man the climatological observation posts are less cautious than they used to be now that the general theory of climate change has become common property ; government servants are more confident and outspoken ; and , while scepticism remains , no cabinet minister is likely to denounce the theory and the accompanying evidence as hysterical . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , RAF attitudes were changing : the disbandment of Fighter Command and the probable demise of the V Force made pilot seats in transport aircraft more attractive than they used to be . |
| 29 | The columnists on the op-ed pages are more bloody-minded than they used to be , but in its editorials the Times remains the voice of American public policy . |
| 30 | Now some have — and foreign investors , less credulous anyway , are more needed than they used to be . |