Example sentences of "[noun pl] ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | How do you think schools ought to be ? |
| 32 | Well I think that schools ought to be open . |
| 33 | Strategy and tactics ought to be preoccupying the leadership rather than this simple advance . |
| 34 | We had argued , to put it very briefly , that since one of the law 's concerns was the preservation of public order and decency , steps ought to be taken to remove the affront to public order and decency which was presented by the obtrusive presence of large numbers of prostitutes openly soliciting on the streets . |
| 35 | Further research on classroom exchanges would assist in determining where problems are and what steps ought to be taken to eradicate them and promote a gender-neutral environment in our classrooms . |
| 36 | In the time of Nicholson Baker 's Vox , God help us , his voice and voices ought to be heard in the land . |
| 37 | But such a future , Eliot wrote , was not one in which he or his readers ought to be interested . |
| 38 | The people who run them shops ought to be tried at the Old Bailey and given years of 'ard labour . |
| 39 | The difference was more apparent than real , a question of ‘ words ’ in which ‘ all the details are important ’ in a new ‘ information environment ’ — meaning his words ought to be read in the light of the special status of the Communist Party organ , Pravda , and of glasnost . |
| 40 | Well is er Mr the issue which the inspectors ought to be er addressing themselves whether or not this land serves a greenbelt purpose , or not ? |
| 41 | Is one of the matters to which the inspectors ought to be applying their mind whether or not this land is more appropriately regarded as countryside or part of the village ? |
| 42 | Is one of the matters to which the inspectors ought to be applying their mind Would development of the site these sites amount to encroachment into the countryside ? |
| 43 | from , from er the European Community or European Union erm , in fact Simon is sitting out there and I think this is the chap who 've er really responsible for putting forward er , er on the County Council side the bid and er , er I think that our thanks ought to be extended . |
| 44 | The courts could systematically substitute their choice as to how the discretion ought to be exercised for that of the administrative authority ; they would in other words reassess the matter afresh and decide , for example , whether funds ought to be allocated in one way rather than another . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | The pull 's fairly heavy , but someone with your shoulders ought to be able to manage . ’ |
| 47 | Magnetic materials made up of nanocrystals ought to be better because their magnetism can be switched on and off more swiftly . |
| 48 | McCann 's speech , with its suggestion that the police lines ought to be charged , while refusing to actually call for such action , seems to have typified the confused militancy of the radicals , who were suddenly precipitated into a conflict for which they were quite unprepared . |
| 49 | It would have appeared a politically harmless work , if it had not contained a violent attack in the Preface on ‘ the impertinent and ignorant preachers ’ appointed by the Government , ‘ who think all religion is a sermon and all sermons ought to be libels against truth and old Governors , and expound chapters that the meaning may never be understood ’ . |
| 50 | For that 's the place where traitors ought to be . |
| 51 | According to a simple application of lapse theory , slow responses ought to be preceded by low voltage CNVs , while fast responses ( as quick as when rested ) should be preceded by high voltage CNVs similar to those recorded from rested subjects . |
| 52 | They reflected a concept that had been current for a number of years , that experiments in planning free zones ought to be devised ( Banham et al . , |
| 53 | The collected volume of his Seventy eight studies from Nature ( 1809 ) contains an 8-page discourse entitled ‘ A Few Observations with respect to the mode in which Plantations ought to be Conducted . ’ |
| 54 | In determining whether the defendants ought to be held liable under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher , the learned judge considered that he ought to pay regard to ( i ) the quantities of combustible materials which the defendants brought onto the land ; ( ii ) the way in which they stored them ; and ( iii ) the character of the neighbourhood . |
| 55 | Handy accepted the appointment in 1977 as an alternative to joining the church , and his management thinking has always been marked by a belief that companies ought to be about more than performance and profitability . |
| 56 | They included Henri de Lubac , later to be raised to the rank of cardinal , though only after he had retreated from the more extreme position on the relationship between nature and grace he had adopted in 1946 in his book Surnaturel ; Marie-Dominique Chenu , one of whose books was placed on the Index in 1942 for daring to suggest that Thomas Aquinas ought to be studied against the history of his times ; and Yves Congar , who survived to become one of the leading theologians of Vatican II . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | Unlike Bacon , who supposed that his method of inquiry would give certainty , he concluded that judgement on such matters ought to be suspended . |
| 59 | These matters ought to be included in the 1991 advisory restructuring exercise ( Leeds City Council 1991c ) . |
| 60 | On a less technical level , in any professional firm , whatever its size , two matters ought to be given particular attention : ( 1 ) the need to involve all its members and its professionally qualified employees in day to day management ; and ( 2 ) the need to keep under constant supervision the professional conduct of its members and employees . |