Example sentences of "ought to be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Marxist or Hegelian thought , such an age-old contradiction ought to be resolvable through the operations of dialectical logic . |
| 2 | Now this may sound like fatuous bluster but suspicion of businessmen ought to be understandable in an era of commerce made squalid by stock-market muggings on a grand scale . |
| 3 | She ought to be relieved to be free of his company for a while . |
| 4 | Be we 've got a lot that we ought to be proud of . |
| 5 | The people in the company who will have to run the system , the manager or director in whose department the system will be installed ought to be involved in the selection process , but such people are unlikely to have much knowledge of computers and computer software although they may be familiar with word processing and spreadsheet systems running on microcomputers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It ought to be possible for the teacher at this stage to spot skill weaknesses , and to introduce activities designed to remedy them — activities of which the children can see the point . |
| 8 | it ought to be possible for partners to disagree on specifics while remaining allied in general terms and often working together in many fields . |
| 9 | My Lords , I , I do realise and I have to be satisfied with that erm and I shall do my best , but if I could just make my absolutely clear , simple proposition that I was seeking to perform is that if you are seeking to amend the law i i it ought to be possible for those who are seeking to understand the Government 's intentions to find out relatively easily what the law is and I suggest it 's very far from easy and even if you get to it , it 's not at all easy to understand . |
| 10 | It is in fact a movement : a coming together of teachers whose common conviction it is that teaching up to now has been conducted in far too random and amateurish a fashion , based at best on a kind of inspired guesswork , and that it ought to be possible by putting our minds to it , and applying the sort of thinking that is successful in other fields , to do a better job than before . |
| 11 | Since it can not be accountable to national Parliaments , it ought to be accountable to the European Parliament . |
| 12 | After an absence of so many years , this kissing among men seems an odd thing , but one ought to be thankful for small mercies : at least it is only two kisses and not three , as is the Russian custom . |
| 13 | Neither group ought to be disappointed by what they hear . |
| 14 | We were just saying you ought to be good at that . |
| 15 | You ought to be worrying about girls at your age . ’ |
| 16 | I feel I ought to be nice to them wherever possible . |
| 17 | I ought to be married with half a dozen kids of my own . |
| 18 | They accepted that the state had a duty to uphold morality and that private morality ought to be subject to the law as it affected society . |
| 19 | In summary , we can say that public law rules and principles ( including the rules of judicial review ) ought to apply to the exercise ( or non-exercise ) of public functions ; and that public functions are functions which ought to be subject to public law controls . |
| 20 | To break the circle someone has to decide , by making a value-judgment , whether or not any particular function ought to be subject to public law . |
| 21 | She supposed she ought to be pleased at this fresh evidence of Luke 's sensitivity . |
| 22 | I think we ought to be pleased at the money made available in the last 5 years for players . |
| 23 | Those are words which could be used to describe the righteousness of Paul ; and they ought to be appropriate for us too . |
| 24 | If the less frequently attacked male groin must be protected by a guard , then it follows that chest protectors ought to be compulsory for female contestants . |
| 25 | taking out loans and borrowing and I do n't think that this County Council ought to be defensive in the slightest about having a tool such as borrowing available to us in terms of financial management . |
| 26 | No doubt I will request our librarian to get me some of the original references cited but my point is that surely Chemistry in Britain is written for the general interest and education of chemists and ought to be comprehensible to the reasonably trained chemist . |
| 27 | However , it must be stated that anyone who has used a code driven word processing program ought to be capable of achieving results fairly quickly . |
| 28 | Yes , you 're comparative performances as investigators will , well even that should n't differ all that much because those that have got Sarah available to them those are the teams who ought to be capable of concentrating more on their stage two work , should n't they ? |
| 29 | Pension funds ought to be immune from the performance of the company to which they relate , so that employees ' pensions are safeguarded even if the company is experiencing difficulties . |
| 30 | ‘ Of course the transcriber — this Yank — wanted it to be all very hush-hush and MI5 , but I rang Mrs Machin myself , and checked up , and she said with all this new interest she thought the material ought to be available to any scholar who wanted to look at it . |