Example sentences of "people [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just not true , and I think people ought to be warned . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ People ought to be able to decide whether they want to take risks on the basis of information which gives them an idea of how much risk there is , ’ says Helen Peggs , ‘ but at the moment the information they get is often distorted . ’ |
| 3 | So really people ought to be trained to take their engine oil out |
| 4 | As I say I 'm not going to respond immediately cos I think other people ought to . |
| 5 | ‘ I think that people ought to be upset , ’ he wrote ; ‘ I think that life is so important and , in its workings , so upsetting that nobody should be spared . ’ |
| 6 | The first matter is difficult to assess , since a judgment has to be made as to how many people ought to be in receipt of representation . |
| 7 | However , Mill was against a secret ballot , Mill thought votes ought to be cast publicly and the reason for this is that he thought people ought to be voting on their view of what is right and so therefore they ought to be publicly accountable . |
| 8 | that he thinks that erm of all of these forced motivations class interest is the most damaging and he argues there 's a remedy for this , we 'll see why it 's a remedy in a minute , that certain people ought to be given more than one vote so that although everyone should have some votes , not everyone should have the same number of votes . |
| 9 | She said there were speed restrictions on the A167 at Aycliffe , Croxdale and Chilton , and Ferryhill people ought to be given the same protection . |
| 10 | Yes , you have to dig down as far as you can to get the roots in properly but , you know , it should be just the depth of one spade , so most people ought to be able to dig a hole that size . |
| 11 | It was , in fact , the once-trendy Manhattan disco Studio 54 , where people used to be turned away for not being Beautiful . |
| 12 | For example , mildly depressed and tired old people used to be given amphetamines . |
| 13 | First , he said , the administration was more actively engaged in trade policy than the Bush people used to be . |
| 14 | I mean they were on farms all round here and erm people used to , they used to do a lot of toys . |
| 15 | Somebody 's car alarm 's gone off no , right , now this where lots and lots of people used to really moan , the , the person that was having a fit would absolutely go through hell because somebody at some stage had said oh you must put something in a person 's mouth that has epilepsy . |
| 16 | In the early days of er navigation within the Mediterranean people used to actually have to navigate by going all the way round the coast . |
| 17 | People used to consistently park because they had n't got garages . |
| 18 | Er so I said , Alright I 'll stop taking them which I did n't anyway , but a lot of people used to took them but some used to take er when it when the periods were due they 'd take about half a box , I mean instead of taking two , er two one day and two the next they 'd take about half a box . |
| 19 | There used to have people used to all go and get some hot peas and the fish and chips and eat them you know , as they was going home and and all like that . |
| 20 | Maybe we just are n't as clever as people used to be ; maybe the Nintendo Gameboy and daytime television ( both , significantly , introduced in the past six or seven years ) have ruined thousands of careers , not just my own . ’ |
| 21 | And then people used to er maybe wedding rings or sovereign used to pawn that and then they used to either they could n't afford to get it out , to , to redeem it so er the pawnbroker would sell it then , after a time . |
| 22 | but anyway , erm people used to be very helpful and erm |
| 23 | but erm they erm , they had their meals in the canteen which was one of the committee rooms adapted for that purpose and erm , I think erm , the youngs younger people used to quite enjoy it really I mean they used t ha |
| 24 | Of course I must add a , a word of warning here , because whereas once upon a time many people used to be able to ring the Weather Centres or a Met Office to get their own personal forecast , which was very nice , we enjoyed doing this , it has now got to the stage where so many people are trying to ring us that we just can not deal with all the enquiries personally , and we 're looking into ways and means of erm providing forecasts of this sort of nature , they 're general sort of nature , by other means , such as radio and television . |
| 25 | I also think that erm it 's up to erm us — I mean if you think of us as a whole travel industry — to really take a look at what we are providing and compare it with what is provided in other countries ; the standards of service , how long do you have to wait for a meal when you 're sitting down to eat in a restaurant , what are people used to in France and Germany and the USA ? |
| 26 | As this is an item which people would to a household refuse , waste site already , the problem of generating does not apply to this waste either . |
| 27 | Well people would to the house to offer their |