Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people might think that a person who causes death whilst using an unlawfully held firearm or explosives ought to be convicted of murder because there is , generally speaking , no excuse for using such dangerous equipment . |
| 2 | Differences due to different methodologies or techniques ought to be identifiable ( e.g. remote sensing vs. direct measurements ) . |
| 3 | The simple mouse-and-icons approach means putting together new forms or reports ought to be a doddle ; and for functions like queries or browsing , you ca n't do much better than the GUI . |
| 4 | Everybody agrees that accounts ought to be useful . |
| 5 | Well I think that schools ought to be open . |
| 6 | Wulfstan simply says that warships ought to be made ready every year after Easter . |
| 7 | Handy accepted the appointment in 1977 as an alternative to joining the church , and his management thinking has always been marked by a belief that companies ought to be about more than performance and profitability . |
| 8 | Choice theories verge upon a serious contradiction with liberal philosophy to the extent that reliance is placed upon the principle that promises ought to be kept . |
| 9 | Unless the principle that promises ought to be kept can be shown to be compatible with the appropriate respect for liberty , it offends liberalism by imposing a kind of moral paternalism . |
| 10 | We find on close examination that those choice theorists who invoke the principle that promises ought to be kept in order to complete their account of contractual obligations ultimately concede that they are engaging in a form of moral paternalism . |
| 11 | The exercise of choice turns out to be sufficiently special to justify the imposition of contractual obligations because it meets the criterion of a moral principle that promises ought to be kept . |
| 12 | Yet the importance attached to this scheme of distributive justice by advocates of choice theory encourages them to ignore the contradiction which we noticed above between the liberal ideal of individual autonomy and the moral paternalism of the principle that promises ought to be kept which lies at the heart of their theory of contract . |
| 13 | There are two things that governments ought to be doing . |
| 14 | It also made a number of exhortations , for example that Parliaments ought to be held frequently , elections ought to be free , and that free speech ought to be guaranteed . |
| 15 | The simple idea that resources ought to be concentrated in areas where unemployment is highest has struck home . |
| 16 | So you think that resources ought to be allocated on the basis of need of particularly populations , and an analysis of the spread of within the age groups , rather than on just on a sort of so much per head uniform way . |
| 17 | And somewhere through the hotel muzak lurks the sensation that things used to be different , that we ( my brother and I ) had n't always been wrapped in jumpers , silent , staring at the screen , that the days used to be hot and long . |
| 18 | It was not disputed that teachers ought to be aware of the relation between educational success and failure and the language children being to school , or that some teachers need to give a good deal of time to the study of reading . |
| 19 | And just as linguistics ought to be able to account for the structure and organization of as yet unspoken sentences , so poetics ought to be able to account for the rules governing as yet unwritten works of literature : ‘ Each work is therefore regarded only as the manifestation of an abstract and general structure , of which it is but one of the possible realizations . |
| 20 | The committee declined to accept the view put to them by the Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury that tribunals ought to be regarded as part of the machinery of public administration for which the Government should retain a close and continuing responsibility . |
| 21 | We do n't believe that pensioners ought to be forcibly transferred , they should be given the choice . |
| 22 | It 's the last place that cuts ought to be made . |
| 23 | Local inhabitants recall that thistles used to be placed down the outside school toilets before the unsuspecting used them ! |
| 24 | If we 're , if we 're agreeing that women ought to be able to make informed choices , there 's so much information it 's actually very hard to make a , particularly if your |
| 25 | All the doctors are achieving with their uncontrollable itch to boss , patronise and distribute public money is to establish an idiotic certainty in our morally confused age that condoms ought to be free because they are something the government wants us to use . |
| 26 | The classic work on plotting and graphs used to be a textbook by Carl Schmid ( 1954 ) , which is still worth consulting . |
| 27 | Strategy and tactics ought to be preoccupying the leadership rather than this simple advance . |
| 28 | In the time of Nicholson Baker 's Vox , God help us , his voice and voices ought to be heard in the land . |
| 29 | The final message for the politicians and consultants ought to be ‘ back to the drawing board ’ . |
| 30 | The view of the hon. Member for South Down ( Mr. McGrady ) was that many things should be left as they are , but he accepted that savings could be made and changes ought to be made , although he did not explain how . |