Example sentences of "we [vb mod] to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is er , strongly er , suggesting that we ought to be rather more pro-active than we either are , or than anybody is suggesting that we ought to be in the paper at number seventeen . |
| 2 | Most educated people in this country now believe , in a vague sort of way , that we ought to be less sexually prudish than the Victorians are alleged to have been , and that sexual morality should be guarded rather by example and exhortation than by penal sanctions . |
| 3 | We ought to be more concerned as to exactly how they came into being . |
| 4 | But I do n't think we ought to be too dismayed about one letter like this . |
| 5 | But there 's no , it seems to me there 's no fundamental change in Government policy and if you are only bringing forward er a change in policy er to this alteration on the basis that er there was some extra P P G guidance we would n't just be dealing with countryside policy here we would be dealing with a policy about telecommunications , wind farms , a whole raft of things er which which we ought to be really dealing with . |
| 6 | That is something of which we ought to be extremely wary . |
| 7 | There was a lot of stress on resources , and by resources I do n't just mean books in libraries , I mean staffing resources primarily … and we used to be very fierce about the quality of course leadership , for example . |