Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hardy Hall and George and Marie cases introduced you to the idea that case studies ought to include a certain amount of financial and statistical data . |
| 2 | Perhaps , instead of seeing the whole operation as a put-up job , we ought to accept a changed concept of what a fifty-year-old looks like . |
| 3 | The objection may be signed by an agent , who , for his own protection ought to obtain a written mandate from those whom he represents : see subs . |
| 4 | The time to change to a smaller hook is when a lack of bites suggests you ought to try a smaller bait . |
| 5 | If the sample is carefully selected , then the pattern of scores obtained by the sample ought to provide a close match for the pattern of scores which would be obtained if the whole population of children were to be tested . |
| 6 | You did , so he 's come , he 's knocking that list off the total figure , with , because that list was higher , subsequently I 've managed to knock it down by about three or four percent anyway , erm , he 's , he 's knocking off a bigger sum than he should to produce a smaller welding price . |
| 7 | ‘ It is the people hereabouts that I like , ’ said Mr Crump , feeling the silence as censure and well aware that he ought to play a proper part in the conversation . |
| 8 | It is not that Lee should in some way be forbidden to talk about white , male canonical authors , but a book such as this ought to suggest a greater awareness of the very issues it is summarising . |
| 9 | One way of describing the ideal low-pass response depicted in figure 12.1(a) is through the relation This suggested to Butterworth that where n is a large integer , ought to constitute a good response to synthesise from the point of view of creating high-performance low-pass filters . |
| 10 | A few commandos struggled ashore , among them Captain Michael Burn , who went alone three quarters of a mile across the docks to near the northern bridge where he did what he could to destroy an unmanned battery and was visited by Bill Copland doing a round of the northern positions . |
| 11 | You know , about the crime statistics ; really what she 's saying is that parents ought to do a better job for their children , and I 'm sure we all agree with that but I think that that 's a very superficial response to what is er an enormous question of parents just being too poor and having nothing to give their children in the way of just basic food , basic medicines , to keep them alive . |
| 12 | Well I think it is They ought to last a fair time they I mean it 's not gon na be abused really is it at those windows ? |
| 13 | However , one ought to keep an open mind on the subject , remembering that the large-scale , objective study of suprasegmental aspects of real speech is only just beginning , and there is much research that needs to be done . |
| 14 | It would seem sensible , therefore , that given the current limitations of s.62 the courts ought to adopt a liberal interpretation of ‘ adversely affected ’ . |
| 15 | Overwhelming pain is a term used to emphasise a common result of chronic unrelieved severe cancer pain . |
| 16 | BSE is creating panic to a certain extent , but BTB used to kill an awful lot of children . |
| 17 | He was unconventional — he always used to wear a woolly cap and refused to wear a tie . |
| 18 | I always used to wear a yellow overall , yellow . |
| 19 | They used to wear a lot of the collars with a , with a wing on the hard collar , you know , they used to wear a hard collar then . |
| 20 | And er of course everybody there were only about what half a dozen fitters in those days and erm er as a mark of their profession or trade in those days , they used to wear a white collar you know , with out a tie . |
| 21 | but I used to see an Edwardian bicyclist , |
| 22 | Although these experimental results are indecisive , the theoretical point remains — the latent inhibition procedure is not that used to train a conditioned inhibitor . |
| 23 | She used to come a long way , right from the top of to walk down to her Co-op , a long way . |
| 24 | Whatever the method used to discover a new site , the most important element is to record its position and any other details that might be apparent at the time of discovery . |
| 25 | The first thing they 'd do if they captured one would be to hack off the two forefingers of each hand , the very ones our archers used to pull a long bow . |
| 26 | FAR RIGHT A hand-made Bronze Age urn , originally used to contain a human cremation , after conservation and restoration . |
| 27 | Well that 's not as disgusting , I used to know a little kid that used to eat shit , by the way everybody , I just thought I 'd let you know . |
| 28 | And another sixteen percent is the other Ne Nestle coffee erm Blend Thirty Seven which I used to drink a long time ago and others and twenty two percent is er |
| 29 | For example , if the sale is a demerger or unbundling process used to counter a hostile bid , timing will be critical . |
| 30 | A wooden gate at the side of the house led to a neatly tended garden at the back , the lawn sloping down to the river , with a path of paving stones laid along the middle , ending on the edge of the waters at what looked like a small landing-stage , perhaps once used to moor a small boat or punt , but apparently ( as Lewis shone his torch across it ) not in recent use . |