Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] ought [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My husband told me I ought to be getting out more , so my friend and I began to go out once a fortnight . |
| 2 | I feel really angry I mean I 'm you might say because of my job that I I ought to be law abiding but I am a law abiding person and i like to think that I would go along with all all the laws because they are they are brought in for the benefit of all . |
| 3 | Of someone who ought to be a Friend |
| 4 | Of someone who ought to be a friend . |
| 5 | I 'll get him I 'll get er Jane to give me a few dates and we 'll suit choose a suitable date and we 'll try all of the aspects everything about A L O work about the training , some of these we 've almost got solutions to ourselves we ought to be careful erm , if we can er draw up a proper agenda and discuss with him all of those issues |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , you were always a fool , Neil , always — a fool to think that I would be content to live on nothing with a younger son and a fool to reject me now that I can give you the life which you ought to be living . ’ |
| 7 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |
| 8 | Others , however , would rather maintain that these charges have sometimes been exaggerated , but that they do highlight genuine dangers of which one ought to be aware in reading Barth : dangers which lie partly in what he actually says , but also partly in what he can very easily be taken to be saying when his real meaning is subtly but significantly different . |
| 9 | That is something of which we ought to be extremely wary . |
| 10 | But there 's no , it seems to me there 's no fundamental change in Government policy and if you are only bringing forward er a change in policy er to this alteration on the basis that er there was some extra P P G guidance we would n't just be dealing with countryside policy here we would be dealing with a policy about telecommunications , wind farms , a whole raft of things er which which we ought to be really dealing with . |
| 11 | If head statements to their governors are the key documents which they ought to be , they deserve all the care which drafting and redrafting can confer on them . |
| 12 | The latter may , for instance , feel that if he is regarded as competent to take on the task by himself he ought to be in charge of his own department and that the manager is intentionally blocking his promotion . |
| 13 | ( 11 ) If a licensing board is not elected at the time at which it ought to be elected , or an insufficient number of members is elected for a board , the Secretary of State may by order provide for the holding of an election or elections for supplying such fault or deficiency in election at such times and in such manner as he may think expedient . |
| 14 | This particularly applies in the case of professionals such as doctors and teachers who we ought to be able to trust . |
| 15 | Mm , that 's right and they 've got all the hassle of the airport , mind you they ought to be able to get a local airport I do n't know who they 're going , going with , who the erm Gavin said , I think Gavin said or somebody said something the , the original company have gone bankrupt |
| 16 | We 've got to look at it in those terms , and so it is not necessary in my submission for anyone to prove at the moment there is at least five thousand dwellings short , erm that that is something which ought to be considered over a much longer time period . |
| 17 | At this juncture I have an experience to relate , perhaps one which ought to be recorded in the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 18 | the House of Lords must give leave on the basis that the case is one which ought to be heard by the House . |
| 19 | At the same time I can not help feeling that the defence is one which ought to be used with great discretion , and that for two reasons . |
| 20 | She 's the one who ought to be got rid of . |
| 21 | Gesner was the one who ought to be slapped , but he had at least done the decent thing in abandoning Suzi . |
| 22 | You 're the one who ought to be worrying . ’ |
| 23 | So the usual thing eventually after five months waiting for payment is to find out the bloody solicitor that told them this you see and inform the the solicitors that er his client has not yet paid us and we it ought to be done and eventually that 's how we get the money . |
| 24 | ‘ But no one tells them they ought to be in this dead-end job and liking it . ’ |
| 25 | If you asked him she ought to be put away for she was plainly off her trolley . |
| 26 | ‘ Whoever persuaded him he ought to be a teacher ? ’ |
| 27 | from the notice of the one to whom it ought to be a matter of concern . |
| 28 | Gaitskell was anxious to identify the ‘ mole ’ in this case and asked me what ought to be done . |
| 29 | I am not what I ought to be , |
| 30 | That 's what I ought to be doing . |