Example sentences of "[noun sg] we ought " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because in fact if we 're holding far too much stock we ought to do something about reducing it because it 's all |
| 2 | Is there some rule we ought to follow ? ’ |
| 3 | I think before we take any urgent action we ought to Alan ought to monitor the situation . |
| 4 | On Friday and Saturday tea-times , we would sometimes fantasize about which pub we ought to go to and what we would eat afterwards . |
| 5 | What we are prepared to do when thousands of people are watching or listening we ought to strive to do for God week by week . |
| 6 | This discussion suggests that the question we ought to be asking is not a descriptive one — what is public law ? — but a prescriptive or normative one : when ought public law rules apply ; or , what is the proper scope of public law ? |
| 7 | Before beginning this attempted duplication we ought perhaps to remind ourselves exactly what polynomials are . |
| 8 | It 's absolutely the worst type of business we ought to be |
| 9 | Maybe at this point we ought to get on to some … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ What 's the bit we ought to know about ? ’ she said . |
| 12 | Erm I 've been out as on the er line three this morning and I think there 's another little bit we ought to buy but we 'll discuss that as we 're going on eh ? |
| 13 | ‘ We wanted a certain type and Betty White , our casting director , said there was this young man in revue we ought to have a look at . ’ |
| 14 | The Report declared that ‘ the country can not afford this wastage , humanly or economically speaking , ’ and therefore ‘ in human justice and in economic self-interest we ought as a country to give that help ’ to working-class youngsters who under-achieve at school . |
| 15 | " Unless it 's bolted on the inside we ought to be able to get in with these , " he said . |
| 16 | Well , if we 're really into wider democracy we ought to be promoting wider debate , please support . |
| 17 | Before we plunge into that debate we ought to recognize that recruitment to elite positions in the public and private sectors is said to be highly meritocratic . |
| 18 | And if we are not looking for something which is as restrictive as greenbelt we ought neither to be expressing in whatever terms a presumption or describing something which is permissible as an exception . |
| 19 | Yeah , erm , right , yeah , that 's all the other items , erm what 's been er been going through my head recently is , is er the , looking at the pattern of the meetings and the way the meetings are arranged and , and how , erm , at the last meeting we had a speaker er and that I think , we all found that quite interesting and the one , one from Central America that things and I feel we ought to have that much more frequently than we do have er , a , either a speaker or a focus of some sort of meetings erm , so I think that 's something I 'd like to raise and get the A G M at the next meeting I think similar thing we ought to consider there . |
| 20 | But er that I mean and then there 's that 's another thing we ought to look round , there 's the state of the shed outside |
| 21 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 22 | things like that , and we also , I think this year we ought to send Sid one because he came up with ten litres of five each of them boxes so came up with ten litres of wine . |
| 23 | I thought this sort of thing would be something the Green Party nationally should decide that whether in principle we ought to affiliate with . |
| 24 | That 's a problem we ought to sort out . |
| 25 | We act as we do because , one way or another , we have learned from others that that is the way we ought to behave . |
| 26 | Ursula thinks that every weekend we ought to produce some really useful work . |
| 27 | I found it hard to find Mill 's arguments for this , although he seems to be , he seems to be arguing the point over several pages , but erm we get pretty much rhetorical claims and evidence and so he wants us to consider those states which have been ruled by despots with those contemporary states which have been democracies England versus Spain say and he thinks it 's obvious which type of system we ought to prefer . |
| 28 | It may be that we felt this time we ought to have voted Labour , that this was the more altruistic , moral , even noble , choice . |
| 29 | They need better leisure facilities , certainly , but given current trends that 's a market we ought to be considering anyway . |
| 30 | Three hundred and fifty kilos for tomorrow morning , is very exciting , until you realise that oil is the last thing on God 's earth we ought to be carrying . |