Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | I think the inside of the mouth ought to be a bit darker . |
| 32 | Facts found in an evaluation , conducted in 1985 by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research , Bangladesh , revealed five reasons why the National Oral Rehydration Programme ought to be seen as an inappropriate and inefficient method of promoting oral rehydration therapy to the people of Bangladesh : Firstly , it was estimated that , based on numbers of reported cases of diarrhoea , 184 million packets of ORS were needed annually by the Bangladeshi population ( 1985 figure ) . |
| 33 | The adjudication system places the position of an unfinished game before a moderately strong player ( usually about 2200 ) , who then decides what the result ought to be . |
| 34 | Where the accountants advise that the Revenue ought to be asked to treat the firm as a continuing business , a new partner will be required to join in a continuation election under s113 of the Taxes Act ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 35 | The two main issues in the crime of indecent assault are therefore : whether the crime ought to be divided into two grades so that the more serious forms of sexual assault can be labelled separately ; and how to draw the line between indecent and non-indecent contact with another . |
| 36 | From the evidence presented above — and this is merely illustrative of the evidence available — it should be clear that corporate crime ought to be a prioritized concern because it is the more serious . |
| 37 | the industry ought to be spending £310 million a year to maintain the system in its existing state . |
| 38 | We did n't say , but we might well have thought , that that was what a sports car ought to be . |
| 39 | The feeling of disquiet about the practices and methods of some headhunting firms in terms of ethics , reliability , quality of work and total professionalism is such that the possibility of setting up an official self-regulatory association ought to be investigated . |
| 40 | The conclusion was that the practice ought to be regulated . |
| 41 | At the same time the FA urged ‘ players and spectators who are physically fit and otherwise able to join the Army ’ , and several players did so , but the Football League insisted that ‘ in the interests of the people of this country football ought to be continued ’ . |
| 42 | The well-meaning piety of one who is neither leader nor musician ought to be used elsewhere than in the direction of the Church 's music . |
| 43 | The New Testament ought to be understood not as a resource for abstract theological thinking , but as a divine drama : the story of the Great Battle . |
| 44 | ( 4 ) An action of which the value is £50,000 or more shall be tried in the High Court unless : ( a ) it is commenced in a county court and the county court does not consider that the action ought to be transferred to the High Court for trial ; or ( b ) the High Court considers that it ought to transfer the case to a county court for trial ( art 7(4) ) . |
| 45 | This would imply that if supplemental oxygen is given its administration ought to be extended into the postgastroscopy period . |
| 46 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , thumping the car down into second to slow up at the traffic lights , ‘ a journalist ought to be specializing by the time he 's forty . |
| 47 | Similarly , in the various schools of reform Judaism circumcision still occupies a central place , despite the objections raised by the nineteenth-century originators of the movement to the rite 's continuation on the grounds ( amongst others ) that there was no rite of initiation for daughters into the religion so the male ritual ought to be abandoned . |
| 48 | There was a little discussion about the length of time a perfectly made cup of tea ought to be brewed and a little anguish because there was no milk to offer the guests . |
| 49 | If independence exists in fact , then it implies that the perception ought to be brought into line by a clear public understanding of the facts . |
| 50 | It can be argued that the question of whether an applicant ought to be required to use Ord. 53 procedure should depend on whether the particular procedural features of Ord. 53 are appropriate to the case . |
| 51 | While the BBC had remained a monopoly , television viewers had no programme choices nor , for that matter , could there be any argument as to which institution ought to be allocated the revenue obtained from the licence tee . |
| 52 | The citizen ought to be able to find the basic law , the principal law , in statutory form . |
| 53 | Classification of functions fell into disrepute because the classifications were often applied mechanically and without it being asked whether judicial review ought to be available , or whether the rules of natural justice ought to apply as a matter of fairness or policy . |
| 54 | First , there is a safe harbour which is typically available for firms contemplating merger , and it is unclear why a more generous harbour ought to be offered to certain types of corporate activity , such as merger , than others , such as joint ventures ( see Brodley , 1990 ) . |
| 55 | Each individual consciousness ought to be compared to a brain cell in a universal mind . ’ |
| 56 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 57 | The pre-eminent location for this type of holding used to be Panama , but its political tribulations have damaged confidence . |
| 58 | It therefore adjoins Ursa Major , and in ancient times Thuban or Alpha Draconis used to be the north polar star . |
| 59 | When I stayed overnight at my nan 's , which I often did , I actually slept in a room next to where the old monastery used to be . |
| 60 | Staxigoe used to be far more important than Wick ; a busy fishing port , where Scandinavian timber was imported and the small harbour bustled with boats long before Wick gained pre-eminence as the most notable herring fishing station in Europe during the nineteenth century . |