Example sentences of "ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the moment is before a lunch on the plane , it really ought to be a Bloody Mary . |
| 32 | Of course there are , and ought to be , a thousand images of God in which we represent him as changing his mind , forgetting , being angry , being him , doing all kinds of creaturely things ; our language of worship , of gratitude for existence , has to be full of such metaphors and images ; we must take these metaphors seriously , but if we take them literally , if we mistake these images for God , we are idolaters . |
| 33 | A Department of Energy spokesman said : ‘ Hopefully this should not lead to power cuts in most cases because distributors ought to be able to get supplies from other area boards . ’ |
| 34 | The people of Birmingham ought to be allowed to vote on this all-important issue . |
| 35 | What ought to be exciting about Mammame is the unpredictability with which an image or a movement switches into something new . |
| 36 | But whether a monetarist or exchange rate policy is preferred it ought to be clear that the country can no longer endure an ambiguous mix of the two . |
| 37 | Mr Ford has shown an absence of leadership and an absence of grasp of what this country is and what it ought to be . ’ |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | In what is heralded as a vote of conscience , any conscience ought to be deeply troubled by the agonising choice between respecting human embryos from their earliest moments and responding to the plight of infertile couples . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | The Cook & Co pursues the idea that no meal is made without sacrifice to an extreme conclusion that is macabre and funny , but there is an element of truth that ought to be more widely recognised in our squeamish society . |
| 42 | It might be claimed that studying routine policing in Northern Ireland avoids the real issue of policing in the province and that attention ought to be addressed to those sections of the RUC which are responsible for what Turk ( 1982 ) calls ‘ political policing ’ and Brodeur ( 1983 ) ‘ high policing ’ , such as the Special Branch , the mobile support units , which are in effect riot police , or the various surveillance units like E4A . |
| 43 | A more ‘ scientific ’ approach to researching market opportunities ought to be taken . |
| 44 | Opportunities ought to be compared and contrasted . |
| 45 | international marketing research efforts ought to be controlled from the headquarters of the multinational . |
| 46 | In January 1928 he was invited back to speak at the Cambridge Union , on the motion that the Church of England ought to be disestablished . |
| 47 | From opposite ends of England the academics said that this was a born teacher who ought to be in teaching as soon as possible . |
| 48 | Raven pushed at the bishop that he ought to be in an academic post and soon . |
| 49 | About this time he started to wonder whether he ought to be a monk . |
| 50 | Afterwards the general meeting was disappointed and some said that this commission was unrepresentative of the Churches and ought to be disregarded . |
| 51 | These meetings could not be said to be unimportant because world Christianity ought to be seen to meet . |
| 52 | Garbett decided that no one after himself ought to be made to live in a château like Bishopthorpe . |
| 53 | Ramsey entered this conference with a reputation outside England as well as inside it ; and the proceedings of the conference confirmed the opinion of a lot of bishops that he ought to be their next leader . |
| 54 | Here in the social services , which , in volume of resources involved , represent between one-third and one-half of the activities of the state , the question , it seems to me , can not be posed by disconnected , spasmodic pluses and minuses but by presenting a broad and large conception of the manner in which resources ought to be redeployed to meet modern realities , and this will not be done without soberly assessing but boldly facing the in-built obstacles to that redeployment . |
| 55 | Now , when you find management — the representatives of enterprise and risk capital — standing up in public and saying that they have a responsibility to keep prices stable , or lower them , that individual prices ought to be reported on by a commission , and that profits ought to attract special tax penalties if they exceed a certain level , then it is a sign that either the millennium has arrived or else something is going very seriously wrong indeed . |
| 56 | Now , I leave entirely on one side the question why on earth the present ratio between profits and incomes generally is so supremely right that for all time it ought to be preserved , or at any rate allowed only to diminish , regardless of anything else that happens , such as the growth of savings and accumulation of capital . |
| 57 | I can not therefore deny that in this context a settled and preponderant public demand ought to be taken into account or that at a certain point it would have to prevail . |
| 58 | A right is a claim which is , or ought to be , enforceable against others . |
| 59 | This organization is very important because the business structure with which the act starts ought to be the one they have forever . |
| 60 | It may not be a legal partnership , but it ought to be one ethically . |