Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what use is it to provide more and more high-performance cultural facilities ( an unpleasing phrase ) if the artists who ought to be benefiting from them are lacking ? |
| 2 | So , he 's only had the same length of time doing this as you have so , by the end of the afternoon you ought to be in the position to print out a really neat final version of of of the letter . |
| 3 | It means that the recession which ought to be ending is gathering pace . ’ |
| 4 | As a result , ‘ governmental assemblies , whose chief activities were of the kind which ought to be limited by law , became able to command whatever they pleased simply by calling their commands ‘ law ’ ' . |
| 5 | I said " the words he ought to be able to spell " . |
| 6 | This discussion suggests that the question we ought to be asking is not a descriptive one — what is public law ? — but a prescriptive or normative one : when ought public law rules apply ; or , what is the proper scope of public law ? |
| 7 | Yes , you 're comparative performances as investigators will , well even that should n't differ all that much because those that have got Sarah available to them those are the teams who ought to be capable of concentrating more on their stage two work , should n't they ? |
| 8 | This was an insensitive remark , and Ayling shamed her by suggesting that the things one ought to be able to do were often impossible . |
| 9 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 10 | " Unless it 's bolted on the inside we ought to be able to get in with these , " he said . |
| 11 | Come on , if they 're asleep during the day they ought to be woken up . |
| 12 | This was a very trying time for me , and the people who ought to be offering support were offering only insults . |
| 13 | The arguments which ought to be used by each side to explain why they support or reject these provisions are set out opposite . |
| 14 | If the world did n't contain those beautiful creatures , he 'd decided , it was n't half the world it ought to be . |
| 15 | Because those planning a service probably give greater weight to the words than to the music , the Commission believes that those texts which promote ancient truths in a readily-understood manner and in good , or at least passable , poetry are the ones which ought to be used . |
| 16 | In this chapter we can only suggest some of the factors which ought to be considered in beginning to think of answers to them . |
| 17 | Going out to tea always seemed to her a waste of time , but to refuse might have seemed churlish , and she knew that in the country one ought to be friends with one 's neighbours . |
| 18 | The keys were rather dirty and the ribbon wearing out , which is why the letters which ought to be open , like the ‘ e ’ and the ‘ a ’ , are n't giving sharp outlines . |
| 19 | Extraordinary colouring , extraordinary , now 's the time one ought to be out and about , seeing that sort of thing . |
| 20 | All the time you ought to be asking yourself : " why should anyone believe what I am writing ? " and " what have I noticed in the text or in background , contextual materials that makes me think this ? " |