Example sentences of "[pers pn] ought [not/n't] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a personal creditor of the heir has been sent into possession in order to protect his property , and has obtained an object left under trust to me , it is agreed that I ought not to be prejudiced by him in any way ; no more than if he had received that object as a pledge from the heir himself . |
| 2 | ‘ I — I ought not to be telling you this , but Lady Lavinia told me she would … leave me something . ’ |
| 3 | She paused then added more seriously , ‘ Actually I ought not to be so excited . |
| 4 | But I 'm sorry , David , I ought n't to be bothering you with all this at such a time . |
| 5 | She ought not to be left , and if her breathing gets worse , prop her up . |
| 6 | Judgment was given for the defendant ; the jury had found that she was not negligent and the court held that she ought not to be liable for an extraordinary act of nature which she could not reasonably anticipate . |
| 7 | She ought not to be going , but she could not help herself . |
| 8 | She ought n't to be as far down river as this . |
| 9 | These sorts of courses are needed by anyone who keeps animals , and you ought not to be allowed to keep animals unless you have attended such a course . |
| 10 | ‘ Mr Wormwood , ’ she said , ‘ if you think some rotten TV programme is more important than your daughter 's future , then you ought not to be a parent ! |
| 11 | A man like you ought not to be in possession of any Russian works of art ’ . |
| 12 | I think we have got a bit more confident as the Project has gone on and said to them : well really , you ought not to be buying this . |
| 13 | He said well really for some reason you ought not to be a nurse . |
| 14 | Earlier we find little trace of it generally , and so we ought not to be surprised to find it missing from the ordinary Person 's consciousness of time in those days . |
| 15 | Er , Switzerland is one country that has banned the use of animals for research , and I think we ought to be going along these lines that , if animals have rights we ought not to be using them for experimentation . |
| 16 | In 1781 , he wrote : " We ought not to be affected by causes which seldom act , and whose action is always sudden and violent . |
| 17 | Syria has a very significant role now to play and we ought not to be seeking ways of annoying them . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's all wrong , ’ said the woman , ‘ they ought not to be in white homes . |
| 19 | It could be argued that since these are indefensible when applied , as they are currently , to conventional criminals , they ought not to be extended to corporate criminals . |
| 20 | Physical anthropologists and socio-cultural anthropologists have different fields of interest but their respective territories are not separated by an impenetrable wall ; or at any rate they ought not to be . |
| 21 | They ought not to be doing , literally . |
| 22 | Good job too , a young thing like her ought n't to be out late on a pestilential night like this . |
| 23 | Charles was taking the job a long way from the safe arena of charitable patronage and ribbon-cutting and into politically dangerous areas , where constitutionally , he ought not to be . |
| 24 | ‘ He ought not to be standing about in that cold church porch ! ’ muttered Meredith as they strode towards him . |
| 25 | He ought not to be in football . |
| 26 | If , however , this condition is not satisfied , it is submitted that he ought not to be liable . |
| 27 | She had decided it ought n't to be too difficult to slip into the stables and up the ladder first , but this time she did n't even reach the water pail . |
| 28 | To keep the pattern consistent , it ought not to be the same as that of Adam and Eve , by tradition Pride , the moment when , as Lewis said , ‘ a conscious creature ’ became ‘ more interested in itself than in God ’ . |
| 29 | Those who advocated reform argued consistently that it ought not to be interpreted as a permissive move for two reasons . |
| 30 | Mrs Maugham would often abuse this garden and the widower 's laziness , with a self-righteous , alarming complacency , saying that it was a scandal and a disgrace , and that it ought not to be allowed : and when one day Clara , exasperated , as she sometimes rashly was , out of her usual silence , asked her what harm it was doing anybody , Mrs Maugham had snapped triumphantly that it was harming everybody in the street , because it helped the weeds to spread . |