Example sentences of "ought to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | it ought to be possible for partners to disagree on specifics while remaining allied in general terms and often working together in many fields . |
| 32 | What I 'm suggesting is that it ought to be possible to design an inner northern relief road with an appropriate junction and with appropriate traffic managements in the centre of Harrogate so that you can encourage a significant proportion of the traffic that would otherwise have used the western relief road to divert to the southern bypass and inner relief road . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | ‘ I think in any rural town it ought to be possible to find an hour or so to stroll round , just to talk to people about this and that . |
| 35 | Since it can not be accountable to national Parliaments , it ought to be accountable to the European Parliament . |
| 36 | Anna Coots and Patricia Hewitt , two of the most creative pamphleteers , ought to be assured peerages and a few quangoes if Mr Smith gets to Downing Street . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | She supposed she ought to be thankful that she and Holly had spent several contented years together before things had become prickly . |
| 39 | ‘ Thanks , although I suppose I ought to be thankful it was n't a kiwi you likened me to . ’ |
| 40 | Neither group ought to be disappointed by what they hear . |
| 41 | For all the talk of Welsh rebirth , Scotland 's performance ought to be good enough to set up the Triple Crown chance at Twickenham next month . |
| 42 | We were just saying you ought to be good at that . |
| 43 | You ought to be worrying about girls at your age . ’ |
| 44 | You 're the one who ought to be worrying . ’ |
| 45 | In any discussion of ‘ the state of the art of feminist film criticism ’ , or of ‘ feminism and film : where are we now , and what next ? ’ , the problems which all four women in the Channel 4 debate raised ought to be central . |
| 46 | I feel I ought to be nice to them wherever possible . |
| 47 | ‘ Ought to be married and at home , but nobody wants her , I suppose , ’ jeered the overseer . |
| 48 | ‘ You ought to be married — indeed it is the scandal of the Kha-Khan 's court that you are not . |
| 49 | I ought to be married with half a dozen kids of my own . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | Again he follows Aristotle in believing that each child ought to be male and that a female is the result of misadventure . |
| 54 | Everybody agrees that accounts ought to be useful . |
| 55 | When he died , the legacy had not yet vested , and so the trust too ought to be ineffective . |
| 56 | But , if a reference is given , it ought to be accurate . |
| 57 | For the sake of the stability of the continent , ‘ bona fide ’ Europeans ought to be sure what they think . |
| 58 | I ought to be pleased . |
| 59 | ( Elizabeth said that she was not quite sure whether she ought to be pleased when I told her this ; but I am sure she was pleased . ) |
| 60 | You ought to be pleased . ’ |