Example sentences of "that he [modal v] [prep] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , Julius Caesar was dressed in Elizabethan costume because no one thought that he ought to be dressed any differently . |
| 2 | Put out of your mind any notion that he ought to be convicted in case he did it . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Andy used to tell me that he ought to be called ‘ Boo Linighan ’ because boos were all he seemed to get from our fans — but he 'll deservedly be a hero now , ’ beamed captain Tony Adams after becoming the first man ever to lift both the League and FA Cups in the same season . |
| 4 | North once offered Calero a bullet-proof vest — ‘ the same sort the President wears ’ — Only to find Calero shocked at the implication that he ought to be looking danger in the face . |
| 5 | I , far from it but I think here we should be encouraging him or , or highlighting the , the problem that he 's got that he ought to be looking at . |
| 6 | He knew that he ought to be trying to sleep — he 'd managed no more than about five or six hours in the last fifty — but he was edgy and alert with the cold-water clarity of near-exhaustion . |
| 7 | He guessed that somewhere aboard the survey vessel a meeting was in progress to determine whether or not the quarantine regulations were to be obeyed , and whether that adherence meant that he ought to be abandoned . |