Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It should be marketed as a beer in its own right ; its alcohol content ought to be irrelevant , ’ says Karsten . |
| 32 | A firm such as Cheshire Restaurants operating within a limited geographical area and with a standardized menu ought to be able to derive two important advantages from adopting a centralized production process : |
| 33 | ‘ Personal choice for a Western person used to be important . |
| 34 | The race used to be cash-orientated but these days attracts more enthusiasts than those determined to be first over the line , said Mr Brown , who was reminded of the film made about the race when they saw a man in a huge Alvis wearing what appeared to be an animal . |
| 35 | Diesel economics used to be easy to calculate . |
| 36 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 37 | The volume of data being created is continuing to explode at a rate seemingly far in excess of what a diminishing workforce ought to be able to produce . |
| 38 | Anyway , the debate ought to be fun since what is certain is that American audiences , or at least distributors , have at least as much contempt as those here for independent features without bankable stars , car chases and expensive special effects . |
| 39 | New clause 3 touches on those issues because it proposes that , after consultation with the Audit Commission , the chief inspector ought to be able to ’ undertake studies in connection with his functions to improve efficiency , economy and effectiveness in the management of schools ’ . |
| 40 | The Chief Inspector ought to be able to study wider criteria . |
| 41 | Right so there 's a thought that somehow democracy ought to be self-justifying erm the well I mean quite a long way actually two types of justification of democracy , instrumental and erm Mill is defending democracy surely instrumentally and we might want to say democracy has its justification of freedom and equality . |
| 42 | Then he said the father ought to be ashamed of himself , using children who should be in school to make money , and that one day the police would find him . |
| 43 | Choose three or four and pick the ones that most need correcting , that is , the words the pupil ought to be able to spell at this stage ( see What goes wrong ? , page 6 ) . |
| 44 | Thus , faced with words with a medial e sound like : head bed thread or led health except the pupil ought to be clear that because there is a spelling choice , he is encouraged to use the dictionary to check which is the correct form for this context . |
| 45 | And surely any dramatist ought to be able to move us with that final night of Holly 's life , when his musicians ( including Waylon Jennings ) gave their places on the ‘ plane to the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens . |
| 46 | Clearly , each such area ought to be able to make some contribution to analysing George and Marie 's problems . |
| 47 | Barthes is here influenced , no doubt , by the founder of deconstruction , Jacques Derrida , who argued that contrary to the traditional view that speech is the exemplary case of language in use , and writing an artificial substitute for speech , writing ought to be privileged because it exposes the fallacious metaphysics of presence , of the autonomy of the subject , which speech encourages . |
| 48 | Grant Allen , writer and biologist , who also stressed the importance of women 's sexual emancipation in a novel , The Woman Who Did ( 1895 ) , took up a similar cry : ‘ A woman ought to be ashamed to say she has no desire to become a wife and mother ’ . |
| 49 | In the past , when we knew less than we do now , our advice used to be extra cautious . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | It 's terrible what 's happening to him , it really is , the Government ought to be ashamed of itself . |
| 52 | I think government ought to be interested in giving money to the arts . |
| 53 | Do you think the Church ought to be open to change ? |
| 54 | The wide variety of scenarios should , we argue throughout this book , be treated as a series of options over which we as a society ought to be able to exercise some choice . |
| 55 | The catapult ought to be safe so long as nobody knew its name . |
| 56 | The attempt to launch new London evening papers reflected an enduring belief that the capital ought to be able to support more than one . |
| 57 | That Jurors ought to be duely impannelled and returned and Jurors which passe upon men in tryalls for high Treason ought to be free holders . |
| 58 | In those days , everything at the Arts Theatre used to be short runs . |
| 59 | If the Germans can provide this , we should be grateful to them just as the world ought to be grateful to us for having a zero line of longitude running constantly through Greenwich ’ . |
| 60 | The Support Force crossed the great divide and for that the profession ought to be grateful . |