Example sentences of "[art] [noun] we ought " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What 's the bit we ought to know about ? ’ she said . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | The statement that the actions we ought to do are those which promote the general happiness would be useless if it meant nothing more than that they do promote it , and that something more can only be given by an intuition . |
| 4 | Dr Runcie acknowledged that ‘ wealth creation ’ was the necessary precondition for ‘ doing all the things we ought to do ’ but added that there was no automatic connection between wealth creation and a happy society . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The press therefore has a field day , the Labour Party is diverted and distracted and all the politicians have joined a family squabble on an alleged matter of vital principle , but it is all to do with power within the Party , so we are entirely diverted from the questions we ought to face but can not face up to . |
| 7 | " Unless it 's bolted on the inside we ought to be able to get in with these , " he said . |
| 8 | Those are the people we ought to emulate . |
| 9 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 10 | We act as we do because , one way or another , we have learned from others that that is the way we ought to behave . |
| 11 | Ursula thinks that every weekend we ought to produce some really useful work . |
| 12 | That 's a problem we ought to sort out . |
| 13 | They need better leisure facilities , certainly , but given current trends that 's a market we ought to be considering anyway . |