Example sentences of "you [modal v] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | After 16 years you ought to be fluent in the language and , if you make this a priority now , you 'll be enhancing this phase of your life instead of simply waiting for it to pass . |
2 | You ought to be strong enough by then to cope with the journey , and I can try to organise things at the hospital so that my assistants can cope . ’ |
3 | You ought to be pleased . ’ |
4 | ‘ You ought to be married — indeed it is the scandal of the Kha-Khan 's court that you are not . |
5 | You ought to be worrying about girls at your age . ’ |
6 | We were just saying you ought to be good at that . |
7 | Anyway , you ought to be grateful to Neil . |
8 | When she just gazed at him , he said patiently , ‘ I 've paid the agreed price , so tell me why , when you ought to be jubilant , you 're so obviously sad . ’ |
9 | ‘ Cor , ’ she mocked in her best cockney accent , ‘ kept woman now , Phoebe Petherington , you ought to be ashamed of yourself . ’ |
10 | Having explained that his Communism was an aspect of his campaign for black equality he thundered at the committee : ‘ You are the non-patriots , you are the UnAmericans and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves . ’ |
11 | You are frightening me ! ’ and of a passer-by who had added , to the astonished Shanti , ‘ You ought to be ashamed of yourself , frightening someone like that . ’ |
12 | Astonished , I cried , ‘ Miss Sowerby , you ought to be ashamed of yourself , masquerading under false pretences . |
13 | You ought to be ashamed of yourselves . " |
14 | You ought to be ashamed of yourself showin' such a thing to me . ’ |
15 | You ought to be ashamed of yourself . |
16 | ‘ I do n't think you ought to be embarrassed about me now I 'm here , ’ she said . |
17 | I have to acknowledge too that since you ought to be aware from your fellow 's viewpoints and incline towards their benefit as well as your own , and ought also to be aware that individuals can not benefit themselves or each other by community without agreeing on common rules , the rules you follow in acting towards your fellows should be those of your community and not of mine . |
18 | ‘ You ought to be tactful and you have got to have initiative , because at times you have got to make decisions . |
19 | If we come in , you ought to be kind to him and not ask him to sacrifice his health by taking office . " |
20 | You ought to be able to cope with a small invasion of your privacy now and then . |
21 | Well , as a very , very rough approximation , you ought to be able to get 3–4 pages of answer out of every page of case study text . |
22 | ‘ You ought to be able to see it , if you go up high enough . ’ |
23 | He once remarked that good prose is like a window-pane , meaning that you ought to be able to see through it without seeing it ; and anyone who has ever tried to write prose like that , or to see human creatures in life or fiction like Waugh 's early fictional characters , will know how much clutter of mind and words needs first to be cleared away . |
24 | ( You ought to be able to deduce at least five . |
25 | ‘ Now you cheap shamus , with the underhanded methods you use you ought to be able to figure this out before the cops get around to it . |
26 | " You ought to be able to see that with half an eye . |
27 | the point about membership is that you ought to be able to comment on those suggestions of change and get involved with them on a broad basis . |
28 | You ought to be able to drive up here did n't you ? |
29 | So quite honestly you ought to be able to make a a bit of something out of it there 's |
30 | The erm but most of us are when yo , when you first join something you can always see the things that you ought to be able to change . |