Example sentences of "what we ought " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | My feeling is that what we ought to do is preserve areas of countryside without having to have this excuse for doing it . |
| 3 | And the non-practitioners say , look , wait a minute , this is what we ought to be doing . |
| 4 | The sociology of religion certainly can not tell us what we ought to believe — or even whether any particular belief is true or false — except , perhaps , in so far as the belief makes empirical claims or predictions — but , even then , we must remember , religions do deal in miracles , and they do celebrate paradox . |
| 5 | As Moore sees it , questions as to what we ought to do are questions as to which actions are good , indeed best , as means . |
| 6 | So what we ought to have a deadline for collect collecting the information . |
| 7 | But the sort of criticism that says ‘ if we want to achieve X , I believe we are going the wrong way about it , what we ought to be doing is Y ’ , seems to me to be exactly the approach that is needed . |
| 8 | With that as the background , it is the time for a deep study of the philosophy underlying the system — to determine afresh what we ought to be seeking to achieve , to examine how far and in what manner the results of our present practice fall short , and to sift new ideas in order to judge which of them appear both constructive and practicable in operation . |
| 9 | I 'm sure you 're the right person to decide what we ought to do . " |
| 10 | I know what we ought to be looking for — a high , lonely place with dry soil , where rabbits can see and hear all round and men hardly ever come . |
| 11 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 12 | I think I think what we ought to do is we ought to point out |
| 13 | Or what we ought to do . |
| 14 | procedures which are , do n't quite fit you , then I think what we ought to be looking for is a certain amount of common ground between your procedure and our procedure , so there is not something , you 're doing something completely different to the way the rest of us are doing it . |
| 15 | No doubt our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be ; for all that , it felt like a step forward — and upward . |
| 16 | Er looking at this , if it 's actually a lot more central to what we ought to be doing . |
| 17 | And I think what we ought to do is have another look at you now . |
| 18 | In 1874 she planned the Association of Headmistresses in order that head teachers should ‘ hold conferences occasionally in order to know what we ought to assert and what surrender ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ I think we 'll have to ask David what we ought to wear . |
| 20 | So I , and , and to be honest I think that 's what we ought to do at this stage , |
| 21 | And I think that 's what we ought to use . |
| 22 | It may be the pro prospective candidate or panel name to go forward on a prospective candidate or something like that er and then there 'd be er a talk by , by the chairman about the finances or what we ought to do er to organize er events to improve the finances . |
| 23 | They 'd got it all worked out what we ought to eat — would you believe it ! ’ |
| 24 | The Quarto version assigns the play 's final lines — ‘ The weight of this sad time we must obey ; /Speak what we feel , not what we ought to say . |
| 25 | ‘ Have a look at the correspondence column , and tell me what we ought to do about it . ’ |
| 26 | Head : ‘ Departmental development , individual development , what we ought to be doing , awareness of your needs , give people new lease of life , new motivation . ’ |
| 27 | What we ought to do we 'll have the vote in |
| 28 | erm , skips , and I think what we ought to do is , if you can travel , deter people from having skips at home , and I , I think if , if you set up there , you 'd be |
| 29 | Em , I mean that 's good at way I am I think , that what we ought to do is to seek to erm , suggest to the Commission that York should take more of the Commission 's total workload , I E to erm take some work from Coventry , and possibly also do a compensating transfer between London and Coventry . |
| 30 | And I would suggest therefore , that what we ought to do , is to ask not only for erm , the service committees to have reports , but for there to be erm , a , a , at some point a round up report of policy and resources . |