Example sentences of "it [modal v] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given time , Boulestin could perhaps with his book of menus have opened the door to organized cooking for thousands of young women who in the thirties were finding themselves on their own in flats and bed-sitting rooms knowing nothing more about how to make a meal than that it ought to taste nice and should not be a bore . |
| 2 | ‘ If she bought it , then you do n't know what it ought to taste like . ’ |
| 3 | Windows NT has been dubbed ‘ Windows Not There ’ by some cynics , because it has n't made an appearance on the marketplace yet , but when it arrives , it ought to have many of the better features of OS/2 version 2 , and , if my information is correct , be able to run programs for that environment as well as native Windows programs and DOS applications . |
| 4 | They 've had additional training in in erm filling in correctly the the the form and will pick up erm for example on the erm the principal accountabilities — every accountability should have three parts , it should be an action verb to help , or to do , or to ensure , or whatever and it should be what it is you 're doing and thirdly it ought to have some sort of erm target in in in doing it . |
| 5 | I mean , that 's what it ought to feel like , ought n't it ? |
| 6 | Poland had been trapped in a time capsule , and try as it might to struggle free , the parameters of its political and spiritual life had been set firm for years to come by the humiliation of invisibility . |
| 7 | The Labour Party leadership did all it could to limit any appeal which the Left outside the Party might exercise over its members . |
| 8 | it used to go fastest |
| 9 | Yeah , well you know this , this Selby 's one that was the same , when the switchboard was busy it would er , if you , if you sees line three and played it down , well if anybody sees line three and played it down it used to do that or if you sees the intercom that did it , says it 's more like the Selby 's one than the new one |
| 10 | Cos I 've been silly in the past , I 've told Evelyn lots of times and we had a new machine , a rapid na nailer , it er nailed er army sho er soles onto the at five hun it used to do three hundred and fifty nails a minute and we m made one just for I er went out on the road , er to five hundred a minute you see , and er we were building the first half a dozen and er er there 's two pawls at the back of the machine |
| 11 | It used to hold young offenders before it closed two years ago.Now it 's just about ready to take immingrants detained by the Home Office . |
| 12 | And of course when it got heated it used to blow and it used to blow all the burning debris all over . |
| 13 | These doughs are made in three minutes now where it used to take six hours . |
| 14 | Similarly , in 1979–80 , it used to take 13.2 hours for a man to produce a ton of steel . |
| 15 | it used to take half a day to cut our grass . |
| 16 | It used to taste nice . |
| 17 | That , that sort of thing er you used to wear them to protect , to protect your fingers cos it used to get red raw if you did n't . |
| 18 | And it used to smell revolting . |
| 19 | No do n't you take it used to have one little |
| 20 | A water fountain and it used to have little cups all the way round as you could go and have a drink . |
| 21 | It used to have less unemployment than the regional or national average . |
| 22 | It did n't bother me , but it used to bother some of the other women terribly , especially the older ones . |
| 23 | He used to come in and do the flowers , all in the dining-room before the dinner was served ; and it used to look glorious . |
| 24 | Oh that was approximately about erm , well I 'm talking about now in my time it must be over twenty year ago , when he introduced that and the simple reason was there was an argument between the deputy harbourmaster and the boatmen which are the cos they used t it all happened over a ship called used to be a collier , used to run here regular and that used to discharge so much coal at Cliff Quay , then it used to go into the dock at Tolwells Quay and finish unloading because it used to bring two or three different lots of coal , it was a four hold ship , she had four holds , and there 'd be one hold for the chemical works and perhaps there 'd be three holds for and that se |
| 25 | And it used to come natural . |
| 26 | It was very easy , they either died , four or five days later , very cheaply it used to cost ten pounds to die . |
| 27 | or a bit of mould in one of the sockets it used to click all the phones when anybody made a call and er , all , all sorts of things that , I would of thought ah there 's a faulty phone somewhere and it 's degenerating and er we went round and waste every single one out , every single one , went to this extension pressed line three , play it down and the phone rang , I thought right it 's not a phone , I changed the cabinet , I changed all the cards and the cards in one big one , I had one three |
| 28 | In the great Victorian house , lives are inevitably connected because they are passed beneath a single roof , depend on the same resources , and can not but have an effect on one another ; yet the planning of the great house does all it can to obliterate these connections . |
| 29 | The county council accepts the problems and is keen to do all it can to support those authorities er to North and South . |
| 30 | To give the bourse an appetite , the government will do what it can to ease monetary policy further and to attract foreign investors . |