Example sentences of "what [art] [noun] [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite apart from the limitations on law reform in general which such an argument would appear to justify , if the views of the public are of any significance at all in this context , then it must be its view of what the law ought to be rather than what it is . |
| 2 | We er actually do need to decide what the name ought to be . |
| 3 | The adjudication system places the position of an unfinished game before a moderately strong player ( usually about 2200 ) , who then decides what the result ought to be . |
| 4 | It would suggest that when faced with a choice between a case which rests on constitutional theories about limited government derived from a ‘ higher law ’ which controlled what government could legitimately do , and a case which rested on actual practices of government bolstered by actual law , the jury preferred the theory of what the constitution ought to be to the practice of what it is . |
| 5 | It is both ‘ the response of ordinary people to trends in government practices which seem to them to be , in perhaps indefinable ways , wrong ’ and a preference for ‘ the theory of what the constitution ought to be to the practice of what it is ’ . |
| 6 | At first sight , it is unclear what the answer ought to be . |
| 7 | If the answer to the problem is doubtful , say so , and then suggest what the answer ought to be . |
| 8 | In other words they give an account of what a professional ought to be like , or advocate a particular process for increasing professionality . |