Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | and peasant antagonism ought to have been greatest and therefore you on the face of it it seems surprising does n't it that land reforms did n't take place immediately , or they were n't attempting land reform to take place immediately . |
| 2 | Critics complained that instead of just handing him the challenge , Spain 's arts ministry ought to have held an international competition for the best scheme . |
| 3 | ‘ I think mistress ought to have made you her farm manager , you 're so suitable for the job , ’ continued Joseph . |
| 4 | The bluster of the tear-stained pop stars simply buffeted , pushed away the possibility that the lyric ought to have contained certain small truths such as ‘ WE ARE THE SICK ONES , WE IN THE WEST ’ . |
| 5 | Cope 's monopoly of artillery ought to have been decisive but the Highlanders were only 400 yards [ 365 m ] away when with a ‘ hideous shout ’ they burst out of the mist , with the sun behind them , and charged towards the inexperienced gunners , broadswords in hand , with a bloodcurdling yell . |
| 6 | There was never really any question that Mr Roosevelt should be memorialised and that the monument ought to have an impact comparable to those of the great Lincoln-Jefferson-Washington triumvirate . |
| 7 | The former , combined with an opinion poll lead which caused a sharp plunge in the stock markets , frightened off wavering voters ; the latter obscured issues such as health and the recession with which Labour ought to have concluded its campaign . |
| 8 | Moreover , both CND and Labour ought to have certain common aims . |
| 9 | It is hard to see what sense there is in , for example , assuming that individuals without a car ought to have the same utilisation of services wherever they live . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Would we not have heard again a hubbub of outrage , complaints that the Coalition ought to have flattened Baghdad when they 'd had the chance , a chorus of demands that Saddam be taken out now … |
| 12 | John Harbour ought to have winged , a bee to the honey , to Babs Osborne . |
| 13 | Close to the end of his life , Vincent referred approvingly to Tolstoy 's My Religion , and spoke of his hopes for a ‘ private and secret revolution in men from which a new religion will be born … something altogether new which will have no name , but will have the same effect of comforting , of making life possible , which the Christian religion used to have … ’ . |
| 14 | Dot used to have Gloria to snuggle up to in the dark . |
| 15 | The erratic London club used to have all the staying power of the latest King 's Road fad , as a flash of brilliance was swiftly followed by downright disaster . |
| 16 | By notice of appeal dated 25 February 1991 the local authority appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that the cause of action accrued under section 10 of the Housing Act 1957 when the works were completed ; and ( 2 ) the judge ought to have held that on the true construction of , inter alia , section 10 the cause of action arose when the demands for payment were served or , alternatively , when the demands became operative following the determination of any appeal . |
| 17 | It follows that in my judgment , the requirements of section 9 have been satisfied and that the deputy judge ought to have ruled in favour of the due execution of the 18 April 1986 document . |
| 18 | In addition , Mr. Buckhaven , who has appeared for Mrs. O'Brien , has contended that , on the evidence to which I have referred , the judge ought to have found undue influence established . |
| 19 | The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the plaintiff had at common law a cause of action in negligence against the defendants arising out of physical injury suffered by her before her birth and whilst still an embryo of about six weeks ' gestation en ventre sa mère and ( 2 ) the judge ought to have held that no cause of action was recognised at common law in favour of a living plaintiff in respect of physical injury suffered antenatally . |
| 20 | But it does n't give me a bitey-bluesy sound that a valve amp ought to have when just pushed into distortion . |
| 21 | The most frequent complaint was that , although the warden ought to have maintained the ‘ stewards , clerks and foresters ’ who kept the forest . |
| 22 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 23 | The central question ought to have been how to reconcile the economic system with the resource-base that it plunders with accelerating and reckless indifference . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | At one time villages had to be more self-sufficient and the village used to have more shops and trades than there are now . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | Working from home used to have a slightly pejorative ring to it . |
| 28 | My grandmoth granny used to have these during the war . |
| 29 | " But anyway we believed in buying land and that the municipality ought to have a share , that the community ought to have a share in the equity of real estate . " |
| 30 | There is a natural appeal in using age weighting in the formula based on the normative assumption that individuals in a given age group ought to have the same utilisation of services wherever they live . |