Example sentences of "ought look " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before people talk of Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals , they ought to look at the map and understand what they are saying . |
| 2 | They ought to look again , for Mr Major is putting together a group of clear-minded , like-minded ministers and advisers , just as Mrs Thatcher did . |
| 3 | ‘ I just think I ought to look for a useful job . |
| 4 | If their new buildings did not look like churches they had a right to say that people should re-examine what they thought a church ought to look like . |
| 5 | Roland thought they ought to look for somewhere else , but held back from proposing it , because he was not the breadwinner , and because he did n't want to do anything so decisive , in terms of himself and Val . |
| 6 | I really ought to look out some pictures for my history lesson this morning . ’ |
| 7 | Management ought to look at the work that you do and that you could be asked to do under any contractual ‘ flexibility ’ provisions before finally deciding upon the groups of people from which redundancy candidates will be sought . |
| 8 | ‘ Someone ought to look after him , ’ said the man . |
| 9 | But then ‘ One ought to look after one 's parents ’ derives , like ‘ Look before you leap ’ , from a general decision following the same procedures as his particular decisions , and it too can claim no stronger authority . |
| 10 | Especially in the area of gender , wishful thinking about how women ought to look and act can easily acquire prescriptive force , with the consequence that real women try to live up to the ideal . |
| 11 | This is what any innocent hostess would say in those circumstances : Lady Macbeth knows exactly how things ought to look ( scheinheilig , as one says in German ) . |
| 12 | Obviously the main justification for location shooting is for outdoor work , but , given the costs of set-building , it is often realistic to film indoor material in a ‘ real ’ house — it is a moot point how ‘ lived-in ’ it ought to look : studio sets do tend to look like studio sets , but real houses are often too run-down to provide the slightly artificial air of super-tidiness which many commercials strive for and which at least some consumers seem to respond to . |
| 13 | Except for a name that ought to look familiar to readers of Alexandre Dumas , because as Aramis it is that of one of the Three Musketeers . |
| 14 | She said as much to Bunny , who , after being furnished with certain examples of this refreshing trait , decided he ought to look into the matter . |
| 15 | They do think girls ought to look like girls … |
| 16 | Theorists tell us it ought to look more like a symphony orchestra or a hospital or perhaps the British Raj . |
| 17 | I do not believe that it is , and we ought to look at it again . |
| 18 | Erm of course two thousand and six is a consideration that we ought to look at once a new settlement location 's identified . |
| 19 | But it is an option that I certainly would n't want to discount at this particular er stage erm because it depends on so many er factors , it depends for example whether er the site that er has been identified for up to two thousand and six , and which is developed up to two thousand and six , has the physical capacity to expand beyond two thousand and six , and I think that that ought to be one of the considerations perhaps that we ought to look at as we move towards the identification erm er of the new settlement , conversely , it could well be that ought to be looking at a second new settlement in a different location , erm I ca n't give an answer , a definitive answer , what I can say is , coming back again er to Mr Brook , this sort of issue er will not be picked up in nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine , er if we are all alive and kicking in North Yorkshire and the District Councils we will be looking at it regularly , we 'll be looking at it in two years time , one years time , erm erm that 's the way we work in Greater York , and it 's basically worked very successfully . |
| 20 | I want to look dark and menacing ; the way I ought to look , the way I should look , the way I might have looked if I had n't had my little accident . |
| 21 | They ought to look in their own back yard first ! ! ! ! ! |
| 22 | I think we ought to look at , not necessarily with the agencies , our own delegation might well be able to do something . |
| 23 | Er , now the county really ought to look at this problem of grass growing over the pavement but the Cou Borough Council are using the shields that are not capable of cutting grass edges , grass verges . |
| 24 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
| 25 | If that money has to come out of the existing budget , then we should , or the Chief Constable , or the Police Committee ought to look at the priorities again . |
| 26 | I understand the exquence , the expense question but there 's also the question of transparency and efficiency because firms ought to look at audit as a useful discipline , it 's not a question of snoopers or narks , as the minister said , er audit is an essential function for the efficiency of the firm as well as for the protection of the public . |
| 27 | I would have thought that it is in the government 's interest to promote efficiency , it 's certainly in the government 's interest to maintain the public interest with regard er to fraud or other wrong doing er but it 's something that the government ought to look at and again it seems to me that it ought to be a matter that er could be looked at if there was a proper inquiry . |
| 28 | But I do believe that we should seriously look at getting say , internal usage bags for nutrients er bags for lime , anything that we have printed , we ought to look at the and say to Mike or get 'em printed or something . |
| 29 | But er that I mean and then there 's that 's another thing we ought to look round , there 's the state of the shed outside |
| 30 | We ought to look for premises elsewhere . ’ |