Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he sees this foundationalist as a weak-kneed sceptic , who ought in consistency to go further ; who ought , in fact , to doubt whether he understands the proposition that other minds exist , and so ought to be a solipsist . |
| 2 | I mean they all ought to be geared up for all this for Christ 's sake . |
| 3 | But operations uniformly repeated , motions which succeed one another without interruption , are the causes which alone ought to be the foundation of our reasoning " . |
| 4 | It perhaps ought to be pointed out here that an odd sentence is not necessarily meaningless , or incapable of conveying a message ; nor is it the case that such sentences never occur naturally . |
| 5 | Well that makes a kind of convenient break actually , because what I wanted to start on er then was things which really perhaps ought to be postponed till , till next . |
| 6 | I think those points perhaps ought to be taken up at the General Purposes Committee since er we have the problem of their decisions . |
| 7 | Not only is it ably led by the shrewd Gordon Taylor ( who perhaps ought to be running the FA ) , the players ' union also has a record which other unions would be proud of . |
| 8 | Twelve o'clock used to be a great well as far as I can remember . |
| 9 | I am so used to leaping from the sensation , the flat circle , to the judgement , a globe , and do it so quickly , that I do not notice I have done it . |
| 10 | And er well you go further through and you can go to the erm And the the Narrowmarsh it was narrow and all , you could shake hands with one another o off the but it now is all council houses is built down there now where they only used to be ordinary little houses . |
| 11 | It only used to be a penny . |
| 12 | They only used to ever lock the door from the outside and er I er had to make er fifty and as I say , number them one up to fifty and er then they 'd perhaps on a odd occasion they sent me an order for one , the number the number |
| 13 | Course i e , it 's very expensive now but it it only used to be about one and six a pound right up to the end of the war and it 's now two pounds a pound and |
| 14 | I mean it only , it only used to be like the The Plough and and The Bath and er New Inn and |
| 15 | I only used to a little bit of |
| 16 | Well apparently used to be trained . |
| 17 | We all used to be at the desk — four of us , plus Roy Thomas-Baker and Mike Stone — all six of us with fingers on the faders and sometimes we 'd work thirty-hour mixes ! |
| 18 | You know , it all used to be so simple . |
| 19 | We all used to be together on New Year 's Eve , did n't we , Dad ? ’ |
| 20 | They look better They all used to be one colour before but we 've now extended the range and so they 've put them in different colour bottles . |
| 21 | If you were last the food would be cold , because it all used to be laid out waiting for you to collect . |
| 22 | And we all used to we we both schools ended up , er used to use the same assembly hall . |
| 23 | And then in the streets , there was no electric lights in the street , they all used to be gas . |
| 24 | It all used to be quite lovely before we had |
| 25 | Well you just ought to . |
| 26 | We wish also to persuade him that once he takes fully into account that his ultimate goals are spontaneous ( are , not ought to be ; what they ought to be is intelligent as well as spontaneous ) , he will require no first principle other than ‘ Be aware ’ for choosing between them . |
| 27 | I was to perform two of Joyce 's pieces , the first being ‘ Committee ’ , a deadly accurate re-creation of a Northern Ladies Choral Committee meeting convened to axe one of its founder members : ‘ Now , we do n't want any unpleasantness , friendly is what we are and friendly is how we mean to go on … but I think we all know there is one voice in the altos that did not ought to be there . |
| 28 | ‘ But it is , ’ he insisted , as if this somehow ought to be the best news she 'd ever heard in her life . |
| 29 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 30 | But when the Sixties arrived , even elderly men starting sporting pink shirts ( pink ! — that just used to be the colour of their gin ) and sideburns . |