Example sentences of "[noun prp] ought have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a passionate love of the visual arts , an intelligent partner to guide her purchases , and a large income to spend on pretty much any picture she fancied , Queen Victoria ought to have been one of the most distinguished of all royal collectors . |
| 2 | After 30 minutes of shattering windscreens , faces outside the shower door , spooky ‘ phone calls and ghostly voices echoing round the stately home , the fetching Lisa Orgolini ought to have been pretty shattered herself but contrived a successful fight-back against ancestral menace . |
| 3 | Gray ought to have been cancelling his youth club , which he usually held on a Thursday evening . |
| 4 | Erm Leamington Spa ought to have been shot for their TESSA advertising . |
| 5 | Ted ought to have been there years ago , he said , and now it 's time for Margaret to be elevated . |
| 6 | Yet the expectation has persisted that Handel ought to have been shown next to some larger and more recognizably worthy instrument . |
| 7 | Behind , away from home and down to 14 men , Kelso ought to have been down and out , but Jeffrey rallied his men in typical fashion and the visiting pack dominated the first 25 minutes of the second half . |
| 8 | In another reinterpretation , in 1874 , the Rev. Sedley Taylor of Cambridge talked of the trial of Galileo , drawing attention to the possibility of a forged Inquisition minute , and the probability therefore that Galileo ought to have been acquitted whatever one thought of the general merits of his theories ; his condemnation was the fault of a dirty tricks brigade rather than of the Church . |
| 9 | Ms Harris ought to have been preaching this to her clients and taking note of it herself . |
| 10 | It is very easy to get involved in discussing whether Olive ought to have been given some knowledge of French wines before George moved , or perhaps persuaded to move to the city along with him . |