Example sentences of "ought to [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | From opposite ends of England the academics said that this was a born teacher who ought to be in teaching as soon as possible . |
| 2 | Raven pushed at the bishop that he ought to be in an academic post and soon . |
| 3 | Coventry v Southampton Having just won at Liverpool for the first time , Coventry ought to be in the mood to take Southampton even though the latter have lost only once in a dozen games . |
| 4 | For me , I think the last paragraph in my paper in the Speaker of the week before last [ ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ ] was pretty good ; but it ought to be in verse . |
| 5 | She ought to be in a home ! |
| 6 | The fuel consumption ought to be in the high teens/low twenties . |
| 7 | At one extreme , an invalid widow was described as a ‘ disreputable ’ hawker who ‘ ought to be in workhouse . |
| 8 | Perhaps they ought to be in the British Library . |
| 9 | ‘ You ought to be in the team , ’ she said . |
| 10 | For example , at first interview Mrs Kitchener 's daughter expressed a great deal of antagonism to her mother , talked at great length about the difficulties she experienced in caring for her mother and said that she had often told her mother — and other people — that she ought to be in a Home . |
| 11 | Declaring that she was so beautiful that she ought to be in pictures , he gave her some of his manuscripts . |
| 12 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 13 | Taking into account the annual exemption , indexation and rebasing , the shareholders ought to be in a better tax position than if the amounts distributed had been classified as a company distribution . |
| 14 | Obviously only a small portion of these neutrinos will come in the Earth 's direction , but still we ought to be in the path of about 80 billion billion billion neutrinos per second . |
| 15 | ‘ But no one tells them they ought to be in this dead-end job and liking it . ’ |
| 16 | Modern beliefs , one might think , ought to be in the rationalist mould of the Enlightenment , but little or nothing is taught about the psychology of consciousness in schools , except in terms of religious studies . |
| 17 | But if there are more than about 12–15 words in the unclassifiable group , and your children are older than 9 , then look again more carefully , because you have probably put words there that ought to be in a different category . |
| 18 | An indication that the child knows what letters ought to be in the word , but ca n't remember clearly enough how they really look . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But that 's his ‘ sic ’ , not mine — I deny all responsibility — so by rights it ought to be in square brackets instead . |
| 21 | The reply brought Joseph Robinson an unease he could have done without : after all , he ought to be in the commanding position . |
| 22 | Aunt Margaret wrote on it now : ‘ The baby ought to be in bed . ’ |
| 23 | Now Canada is where young men hang out when they really ought to be in Vietnam . |
| 24 | I ought to be in bed , he thought , not worrying myself about such things . |
| 25 | Theresa Billington Greig , who broke away from the Pankhursts ' suffragette organisation , the Women 's Social and Political Union , over the issue of militant action , was virtually alone in criticising suffragists and suffragettes who regarded the home ‘ as an exemplar of what ought to be in the political world ’ . |
| 26 | Suppose one went to Boston and found one ought to be in Chicago ? |
| 27 | She thought she knew what it would be like to find yourself in Boston when you ought to be in Chicago . |
| 28 | ‘ Looks like it ought to be in a museum , ’ Donna said with awe , fingering the inlaid panel on the top . |
| 29 | The first matter is difficult to assess , since a judgment has to be made as to how many people ought to be in receipt of representation . |
| 30 | Linnet , who wore such a pretty little diamond watch pinned to her bosom , ought to be in the carriage ahead of them with such of the Dallam cousins and Amabel 's sisters ' children who had claimed the right to be bridesmaids . |