Example sentences of "[noun pl] ought to [be] " in BNC.

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1 Your mnemonic is CHIC , which is what your notes ought to be C : Conclusions in the right-hand margin ( 40mm wide ) H : Headings in the left-hand margin ( 40mm wide ) I : Inside the margins for the notes C : Colour for punch .
2 Now if the liberationist can persuade us that this passionate regard for normal young babies is based upon an unjustifiable prejudice in favour merely of our own species , and that apart from this , animals are no different , then consistency should require that both groups ought to be accorded the same treatment .
3 ‘ Their reactions ought to be recorded , ’ he believes , ‘ even if they get out of the City . ’
4 This seems to suggest that the policy of the 1974 Act is the recognition that there is a need for industrial waste to be disposed of , and the companies doing so are providing a much needed service , but such operations ought to be closely controlled to ensure that any interference on the surrounding locality is minimal .
5 The matter boiled down , in part , to simple morality ; innocent prisoners ought to be freed .
6 Beyond that , the White Paper Better Services for the Mentally III ( 1975 ) also set out rates of provision which health and local authorities ought to be aiming to achieve For ‘ oughtness ’ could be read council discretion about what priorities they had for the distribution of ‘ new moneys ’ .
7 Such an ambitious programme , which could have at least some negative consequences in the member states , could be achieved only under the supervision of a supranational authority with the necessary powers to determine what the policies of the member states ought to be .
8 While , as stated , some of the concepts used now have their origins in the nineteenth century and earlier , there were nevertheless different views taken of how far the courts ought to be reviewing tribunals and other inferior bodies .
9 The substantive limits which the courts ought to be imposing on the exercise of discretion is a complex question which can not be answered merely by dwelling upon individual cases .
10 The rules ought to be laid down based on common sense , not like one-way systems , things like that .
11 But the rules ought to be changed .
12 There ough the rules ought to be hardened up to stop this kind of thing going on
13 Lord Donaldson implied , however , that solicitors who exercised their new rights of audience in these cases ought to be expected to concentrate on advocacy .
14 And if the law of homicide makes no special provision for mercy killings ( see Chapter 7.4(h) below ) or for killings during extreme emotional disturbance , despite a widely held view that such cases ought to be treated as less culpable than ‘ ordinary ’ murders , is there not an argument for a fairly broadly defined qualified defence ?
15 Gradually , through several cycles of modification and response , there emerged a style embodying an image of what the European consumers thought the Indian manufactures ought to be making for themselves .
16 Taking into account the annual exemption , indexation and rebasing , the shareholders ought to be in a better tax position than if the amounts distributed had been classified as a company distribution .
17 solicitors ought to be discouraged from giving undertakings which it was not within their capacity to fulfil — particularly those which effectively took the form financial guarantees ;
18 Everybody agrees that accounts ought to be useful .
19 Five minutes ought to be an outside target for recording ( Figure 6.2 ) .
20 The imbalance between the parties does not mean that all disputes ought to be resolved in court , rather it suggests that there may be methods of organising dispute resolution which are fairer for the parties involved .
21 A more ‘ scientific ’ approach to researching market opportunities ought to be taken .
22 Opportunities ought to be compared and contrasted .
23 Dragons ought to be big and green and clawed and exotic and firebreathing — big and green with long sharp …
24 Wulfstan simply says that warships ought to be made ready every year after Easter .
25 Different considerations press forward , however , when we move on to the various situations in which known risks ought to be guarded against : bad driving of a motor vehicle may carry an obvious risk of causing death or serious injury , as may bad navigation of a ship or an aircraft , bad driving of a train , setting fire to a residential building , and the handling of firearms .
26 ‘ The best referees ought to be here , but some of them are not because the SRA is cutting back on everything , ’ said Davies .
27 Erm erm can I just say , just on the on the basis of Mr 's map erm I think that proves the point that er that I suggested at the outset of the discussion erm on this issue , that if you look at the distribution of settlements there outside the greenbelt , there 's nothing there that suggests that any of the particular sectors ought to be discounted .
28 As to the Finale , hardly Mahler 's most inspired movement , listeners ought to be rewarded with an endurance medal if they can survive the 24 minutes of unrelieved turgidity .
29 The history of administrative ideas and management theory is a history of prescriptive statements about how organizations ought to be structured to achieve their goals ( Abrahamsson 1977 ) .
30 It comes with 4Mb of RAM as standard , which in my books ought to be bumped up to 8Mb for a server .
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