Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The letter which he valued most came from the leader of English theology , who was now Archbishop of York , William Temple : ‘ Men ought to acknowledge their major obligations , and so I write to thank you ... ’ |
| 2 | He gave the cheeky smile which always accompanied his guidance about the way other people ought to conduct their investigations . |
| 3 | Thus conservatives — try as they may to isolate their theology in a cocoon separate from human knowledge , culture and society-are in trouble . |
| 4 | However , although the landowners were refused leave to appeal by the Court of Appeal , they petitioned the Lords directly and ( no doubt because the Lords felt that this was an important public issue which ought to receive their attention ) were granted leave to appeal . |
| 5 | But she was still slightly surprised when she found Father Barnes showing round groups of visitors , experts interested in Victorian architecture , who enthused over the baldachin , admired the Pre-Raphaelite paintings on the eight panels of the pulpit , or set up their tripods to photograph the apse , and who compared it , in confident , un-ecclesiastical tones ( surely even experts ought to lower their voices in church ) with the Cathedral of Torcello near Venice or with Blomfield 's similar basilica at Jericho in Oxford . |
| 6 | The students were being fed contradictory messages and did what they could to lead their lives in the best way possible , given deteriorating conditions and mounting ideological and political debates . |
| 7 | The Hasteds no doubt did what they could to help their bereaved sister , though their best turned out to be insufficient to save her as time went by . |
| 8 | Individuals in the party and the government came to use the situation in whatever way they could to optimize their own position , ranging from exercising the increased power which district and regional officials now had over the citizenry , to carrying out routine tasks perfunctorily while acquiring a significant income from black market activities . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , one would exhort those workers who are conscious of the problems for their residents and would help them if they could to do their best — within the law and within the limits of their own conscience — to mend the situation in their own particular place of work if mending is needed there . |
| 10 | Obviously this sense of guilt , this idea that I had betrayed a friendship , spurred me on when I got older , not only to study birds but also actively to promote their well-being and do what I could to prevent their numbers from dwindling . |
| 11 | It seems that Jesse thought that the ‘ parties in conflict ’ — the Israelis and the Palestinians — ought to negotiate their differences directly with each other . |
| 12 | Police are understandably resistant to advice on how they ought to do their job from those without experience of it . |
| 13 | We ought to consider their wishes and feelings , not because we will be hurt if we do n't , but because they will be hurt . |
| 14 | Let us go , says the second proposition , and find somebody else , some wise man who will be able to answer the unanswerable , who can tell us which are the sheep who can properly raise their prices , and which the goats who ought to keep their prices stable or lower them ; and then , when he tells us , we will all go and scream blue murder at the goats and make them thoroughly ashamed and sorry for themselves . |
| 15 | With the opportunity cost of capital so high , the Treasury reckons Britain 's remaining public-sector industries ought to appraise their investments against a more realistic yardstick . |
| 16 | Within the gate of what is now the Bank of Scotland 's premises in Jedburgh is preserved a ‘ Loupin'-on Stane ’ from which they used to mount their horses before setting off . |
| 17 | Here , when Jacob meets his own brother , he meets him with all the courtly ceremony with which petty vassal princes used to greet their Pharaoh . |
| 18 | It was so steep ( about 1 in 3 or even 1 in 2 in parts ) that one wonders how on earth they used to drive their horses five abreast along this particular section . |
| 19 | Some of the humans in the Store used to wear their names all the time . |
| 20 | Those boys used to enjoy their stint on the tracks with us . ’ |
| 21 | We took up the coathanger as our symbol — one of the grim tools women used to induce their own abortions before the operation was legalized — and we vowed that no more women should die , become maimed or made permanently sterile as a result of trying to get an abortion . |
| 22 | I in the past th Granville mentioned these letters that used to work their way down from on high which might have just been a , a bit of a twinkle in somebody 's eye with no money at all to spend on physical work but even so it was given the same status within the R C E's organization of five or ten years ago a a as an investment item was , it was almost authorized . |
| 23 | Oh look it 's all when The Who used to smash their rec , all their , I mean that used to be disgusting . |
| 24 | It is much the same with scientists who give details of the experiments used to obtain their results . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , ’ he continued , ‘ I know we all call this place the summer-house , and it is only used to keep salmon nets and baskets in nowadays , but it is really a gazebo , where the local gentry used to meet their ladies of ill repute in the old days . ’ |
| 26 | that 's all it was , like the old booklets and it used have week beginning Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday , Friday all the way along and they used to write their homework in , what they had to do |
| 27 | There is little evidence that the Romans used to flog their victims before crucifixion . |
| 28 | Aye , and there were very few people caught you know for when the the the particularly buses , which was a blackleg firm , they used to tip their buses over . |
| 29 | ‘ I know the twins used to visit their parents early in the morning — which is why we have to share a bed , ’ he breathed softly . |
| 30 | I used to sell their money for a living . |