Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] [vb mod] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I respectfully agree with the judge that that would be an inappropriate way of achieving the result which clearly ought to be achieved , which is that a child abducted in the way this little boy was should be able to return home pending a decision as to whether he lives with his father or with his mother . |
| 2 | As soon as those are published , employers are put on notice that there are steps they really ought to be taking . |
| 3 | And it 's my opinion we both ought to be glad for that . ’ |
| 4 | And er , a lot of them were younger than me , but I do n't know why but I 've lasted lo But anyway , m me and me sister we always used to , we 'd say to me dad when we went to fetch the milk with me dad . |
| 5 | Hence , the leaden delivery of some Euro-platitudes , by a woman who really ought to be able to do a better job of reading other people 's speeches after 40 years of doing little else , carries more political import than anything else that has been said about Europe since the election . |
| 6 | Let me put it to you this way you know as well as I do people who really ought to be doing something else other than teaching . |
| 7 | This is officially the last of the Zodiacal constellations , though since it now contains the Vernal Equinox it really ought to be the first . |
| 8 | Of course it never used to be like this . |
| 9 | But operations uniformly repeated , motions which succeed one another without interruption , are the causes which alone ought to be the foundation of our reasoning " . |
| 10 | If we forced ourselves to think in a detached way we surely ought to be more impressed by the architecture of the caddis 's eye , or of its elbow joint , than by the comparatively modest architecture of its stone house . |