Example sentences of "ought to [be] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspect that some of the drug barons who shell out money in support of what must be a pretty costly operation regard the academically-minded staff of the OHE as a bunch of eggheads , not to say ‘ wets ’ , who ought to be earning their keep by polishing up the industry 's somewhat tarnished image , and by encouraging sales , instead of spending their time and the companies ' profits on airy-fairy projects which are n't going to rustle up a pennyworth of business . |
| 2 | Just about the time when a nome ought to be taking it easy . |
| 3 | In suggesting the rule is an inalienable part of the language , Dale Spender ironically assists those she criticises in making their sexism look natural , when she ought to be exposing it as a cultural construct . |
| 4 | Perhaps he has forgotten that his lord ought to be murdering his lady just at this juncture ; or perhaps he thinks Emilia is as corrupt as himself ; or perhaps he does not understand love , The error is great , since Emilia is the only person who knows the truth about the handkerchief . |
| 5 | So it 's , if you 're in , you 've still got to think about security and you ought to be locking your doors , if you can . |
| 6 | But if they 're gon na go off they ought to be telling their parents where they 're going to go . |
| 7 | You ought to be reading your bible saying your prayers going to church and getting in touch with the boss . |
| 8 | Mm , mm its one of the great arguments from the old fashioned sort of religion , that you could turn , you could definitely turn to people and say why are you leaning on me so hard , for all this to fought , you ought to be reading your bible , saying your prayers , going to church and getting in touch with the boss why I laughed when they were saying that Terry Waite would need counselling , I bet that Terry Waite was praying his head off and he 'd memorised masses of the bible which he would be reciting to himself probably set himself two o'clock every afternoon , I remember what I can , book of you know I do n't suppose he 'd needed any counselling , he 'd probably do better counselling other people . |
| 9 | just for fun , you know but I 'm not a believer in using your fists , you ought to be using your brain to teach with but there were no there are no sanctions , if you say you must stay behind after school , you have to send a letter home and half the parents will write back and say my son or daughter is not staying after school and that is that ! |
| 10 | I felt I ought to be thinking something momentous . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've got a bloody calculator , ’ Phoebe would yell , ‘ she ought to be teaching you to think . ’ |
| 12 | It 's a way of as a Council taken the position that we ought to be spending your money effectively , right . |
| 13 | ‘ As far as I could judge , he thought me an incompetent idiot who ought to be minding his own business . |
| 14 | Now , anybody who cares about the country ought to be saying what they will be doing . |
| 15 | also we ought to be treating it , are you not actually having any active treatment at the moment are you ? |
| 16 | But it , it need n't necessarily be erm the kind of direct material gain in terms of well we need to go beyond rent reduction because rent reduction is not , has n't given us enough , because in theory rent reduction ought to be giving you as much you need . |
| 17 | I suspect Mrs feels she ought to be signing them not the |
| 18 | I have rather perhaps eccentric views about this , I do n't feel that we ought to be advertising our presence to external civilizations . |
| 19 | Ought to be scolding you , Rosette Fournier was saying , the way you 've forgotten us — well , here I am with an olive branch — |
| 20 | All the time you ought to be asking yourself : " why should anyone believe what I am writing ? " and " what have I noticed in the text or in background , contextual materials that makes me think this ? " |
| 21 | All along , as far as possible , they ought to be asking themselves that marvellously gripping , simple question " Who did it ? " |
| 22 | ‘ In fact , ’ her father cut in , ‘ if anything , I ought to be asking you to make sure that you do n't antagonise him . |
| 23 | You do n't fully savour happy/frivolous moments because of a gnawing feeling that you ought to be doing something more worthwhile . |
| 24 | I just felt I ought to be doing something and so I stuck to it . |
| 25 | Let me put it to you this way you know as well as I do people who really ought to be doing something else other than teaching . |
| 26 | Now on the face of that that that that 's seems fairly sensible , y'know if somebody is in need we ought to be doing something about it . |
| 27 | Well your , your little diagram shows that I really yes ought to be doing something about it , yeah . |
| 28 | Taking your point that chemistry at university is a privileged subject in so far as that the equipment available is more sophisticated , more expense , more accurate , possibly , surely universities ought to be doing something to help kids in schools ? |
| 29 | The lady did n't come alone , and I 'm not sure whether we ought to be doing anything about it . |
| 30 | Although erm his second idea second way of limiting the possibilities on is rather more difficult to accept now and his claim is that we should n't pay members of parliament , that people who go to parliament ought to be doing it out of duty and not out of er interest . |