Example sentences of "[pron] ought [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought therefore to be grateful for being disorientated by the unfamiliar and the chance to focus the innocent eye . |
| 2 | That is when you ought perhaps to be encouraging some running . |
| 3 | Add to that the landing fees ( if you train at an aerodrome that levies these ) and the usual books , maps and equipment , and you ought realistically to be able to come home with your PPL having cost about $6,600 . |
| 4 | And if we are not looking for something which is as restrictive as greenbelt we ought neither to be expressing in whatever terms a presumption or describing something which is permissible as an exception . |
| 5 | So I think we ought to be considering the entire sum of money but we ought also to be looking for ways in which we could be maximising the total impact . |
| 6 | ‘ We ought none of us to lose sight of the fact that human beings count far more than institutions or procedures or precedents , and we ought always to be willing , given justification , to sacrifice the latter to the former . ’ |
| 7 | However , in so far as such social features are part of the meaning of utterances , they ought also to be treated in pragmatics ; yet within pragmatics , these social constraints on language usage and their systematic effects on language structure , have been very much understudied , perhaps as a result of the philosophical and linguistic bias ( no doubt reflected in this book ) towards what Buhler ( 1934 ) called the representational , and Jakobson ( 1960 ) the referential , function of language . |
| 8 | Is the Minister satisfied that the 1987 guidelines are still sufficiently detailed and effective , or does he think that they ought now to be updated ? |
| 9 | Judges ought , when they are pre-reading a case , to be able to pick up the skeleton argument , and they ought actually to be able to start with the skeleton argument , which would tell them in very succinct form the background facts and what the points are . |
| 10 | He felt he ought now to be thinking of writing a book — but on what ? |
| 11 | In each of these cases there is a disposition whose content is not made clear by the words in the will , and the question for the jurist is whether that means the disposition is void or that it ought somehow to be supplemented . |
| 12 | It ought also to be useful because it provides a context which is meaningful to children , and in which a variety of reading skills can be learned . |
| 13 | Conversely , it ought also to be recognizably an advertising business — not an insurance office or a bank or the civil service . |
| 14 | ‘ It ought clearly to be a responsibility of the government . ’ |
| 15 | William Assheton 's attitude to the design of the conversion was based on the view that although the building might function as a house , it ought still to be recognisable as a church . |
| 16 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |