Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find that a thoroughly unsatisfactory situation , in which this court should hold , if it properly can do so , that the board ought to give reasons for its recommendation . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , there is a risk that the insurer ought to anticipate if the case seems at all likely to throw up difficulties in relation to quantification of future loss . |
| 3 | The objection may be signed by an agent , who , for his own protection ought to obtain a written mandate from those whom he represents : see subs . |
| 4 | She said she did n't think money ought to stop people living , actually living : making their lives little when they could be big . |
| 5 | In return , I hope very much that you keep on telling us what you think about the alumni services we provide , telling us what 's going on in your professional world and how you think the University ought to take account of it . |
| 6 | To avoid clashes with A levels , first year sixth formers as well as those who are between school and university ought to consider entering . |
| 7 | It behaves as a solid body of a particular mass and wind resistance ought to behave . |
| 8 | and peasant antagonism ought to have been greatest and therefore you on the face of it it seems surprising does n't it that land reforms did n't take place immediately , or they were n't attempting land reform to take place immediately . |
| 9 | In the case of land left restricted to the name of the family , if no voluntary alienation takes place but the property of the heir is sold up , the buyer ought to retain the land as long as the debtor would have had it if his property had not been sold up , and after his [ the debtor 's ] death he will not have it , because an heir outside the family would be compelled to make it over . |
| 10 | This is not the place to show the history of this misinterpretation , so I will merely suggest that discussions of the play ought to start from the beginning , as Shakespeare did , with the presence of Iago . |
| 11 | Er , now the the point I really want to refer to is erm just what role an auditor ought to play er in the er insurance and financial service industry in looking at particular firms , erm I have several interests which the honourable member for Edinburgh central knows about , er the one that I think is relevant er to tonight is that I am an elected member of the insurance brokers registration council and the way that erm the way that we regulate insurance brokers erm is laid down by statute but it does actually demonstrate the advantage , the benefit of erm of having a statutory requirement for audit and for er a proper oversight of what then follows in terms of the way that the regulator reacts to what the auditor may say . |
| 12 | ‘ Looking to the future further controls on mercury ought to follow the path it takes before accumulating in the fish . |
| 13 | Our house building ought to develop naturally … a natural architecture is a rational healthy builder 's art expressing itself soberly through the medium of masonry and carpentry . ’ |
| 14 | Critics complained that instead of just handing him the challenge , Spain 's arts ministry ought to have held an international competition for the best scheme . |
| 15 | The English curriculum ought to help to overcome such snobbery by encouraging children to discuss their accents and to be proud of regional differences , but the task of overcoming arrogance about accents is formidable . |
| 16 | ‘ I think mistress ought to have made you her farm manager , you 're so suitable for the job , ’ continued Joseph . |
| 17 | But the problem still exists and Sylvia 's carer , Barbara Waddington says she believes with so few trains apparently unable to fit the wheelchair on to the train , British Rail ought to ensure that Sylvia can travel in more comfort . |
| 18 | Approaching the car I was driving , he reproved me , saying that a padre ought to know better . |
| 19 | Simon Lee has argued that judges ' creativity ought to vary according to four factors : |
| 20 | The bluster of the tear-stained pop stars simply buffeted , pushed away the possibility that the lyric ought to have contained certain small truths such as ‘ WE ARE THE SICK ONES , WE IN THE WEST ’ . |
| 21 | They had , however , the ‘ duty of making such inquiry as the circumstances of the case ought to indicate to a sensible man is , without difficulty , presently practicable ’ . |
| 22 | Arguing that Glasgow wages were already higher than those in Edinburgh , and pointing out that the Glasgow printers had successfully blacked firms trying to employ women , he went on ( in rather clotted prose ) : I am satisfied that the employment of female compositors in Glasgow , while it would increase the total volume of work done there and admit of the natural development of the Glasgow book trade , would not injure the position of the Glasgow men printers , while it would enable the Glasgow printing trade , employed as well as employers , to obtain and retain work which at present ought to come to Glasgow , or at least might come to Glasgow but now goes to Edinburgh . |
| 23 | This is not the place for a proper discussion of Empson 's views , which like a great deal of British work are more concerned with critical method than with theory ( he wrote ( 1950 : 594 ) that ‘ a critic ought to trust his own nose , like the hunting dog , and if he lets any kind of theory or principle distract him from that , he is not doing his work ’ ) . |
| 24 | Deputy Head ( Staff ) : ‘ Someone in the department ought to mark ‘ O ’ Level Art , in order to become familiar with standards . |
| 25 | Talk ought to go on , even if murder went on at the same time ; at the sideboard Twomey turned his back before he smiled . |
| 26 | Cope 's monopoly of artillery ought to have been decisive but the Highlanders were only 400 yards [ 365 m ] away when with a ‘ hideous shout ’ they burst out of the mist , with the sun behind them , and charged towards the inexperienced gunners , broadswords in hand , with a bloodcurdling yell . |
| 27 | There was never really any question that Mr Roosevelt should be memorialised and that the monument ought to have an impact comparable to those of the great Lincoln-Jefferson-Washington triumvirate . |
| 28 | He rejects the idea that industry ought to keep workers on simply to fulfil a responsibility for maintaining full employment and he also argues that it will be impossible to increase the tax base enough to create employment in labour-intensive services such as health and education . |
| 29 | The radical agenda runs something like this : Labour ought to begin talks with the Liberal Democrats on PR ; negotiate electoral pacts with that party , so that they can achieve a majority in 1996 , not just in order to form a government , but to introduce PR ; abandon links with the trade unions , eschew egalitarian tax policies , perhaps even abandon the name ‘ Labour ’ , so as to disavow any claim of being a party that primarily represents a working class that , in self-identification , is constantly dwindling . |
| 30 | The former , combined with an opinion poll lead which caused a sharp plunge in the stock markets , frightened off wavering voters ; the latter obscured issues such as health and the recession with which Labour ought to have concluded its campaign . |