Example sentences of "[pron] ought [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I suppose I ought to expect to be bullied . |
2 | She ought to demand to be taken back to London . |
3 | We can apply the test to the technical and technological subjects , and not only those , but the professional subjects also ; and the boundary line will run now on this side , now on that ; but the things that it divides are different in kind , and only on one side of that line lies what we ought to allow to be education . |
4 | " If long putters enable more people to play without jeopardising the integrity of the game , we think they ought to continue to be used , " Bloch said . |
5 | a more detached view of what was the right thing or the wrong thing to do , a tradition of what national life was like , and what it ought to continue to be like . |