Example sentences of "[adv] ought to [be] " 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 | ‘ But it is , ’ he insisted , as if this somehow ought to be the best news she 'd ever heard in her life . |
| 9 | And it 's my opinion we both ought to be glad for that . ’ |
| 10 | I respectfully agree with the judge that that would be an inappropriate way of achieving the result which clearly ought to be achieved , which is that a child abducted in the way this little boy was should be able to return home pending a decision as to whether he lives with his father or with his mother . |
| 11 | However , accountants , who also ought to be concerned with the concepts of accountability listed under Divisions I and II , have not traditionally played a major role . |
| 12 | that the people that are supporting the project manager also ought to be encouraged not to just to keep their blinkers on , and work within their own discipline , and say , I 've nothing to worry about , I work to the blue book , I work to the code of practice , I work to the British Standard . |
| 13 | As soon as the Trust got Brownsea the regulations about the discharge of sewage changes , they had endless trouble with the water supply , and now they 're having to find £300,000 to repair the sea wall , so I feel that , instead of being praised for being associated with getting Brownsea , I probably ought to be cursed for putting the Trust to so much expense . |
| 14 | Floy thought they probably ought to be afraid themselves , because the Tree Spirits were so inHuman and so wild and so clearly filled with strange woodland magic that once they had finished with Balor they might very well turn to the two Renascians . |
| 15 | Mavis detached herself from the group and looked as though she thought she probably ought to be making an effort to take charge . |
| 16 | He told Miss Smart the girls she drilled so magnificently ought to be included in the Royal Tournament at Earl 's Court , he , for one , being heartily sick of sailors dismantling and reassembling guns . |
| 17 | He once shocked Bonar Law , who took a rather more respectful view of money matters , by saying that ‘ a man who made a million quick ought to be not in the Lords but in gaol ’ . |
| 18 | If the moment is before a lunch on the plane , it really ought to be a Bloody Mary . |
| 19 | Instead of having to come home from work and worry about wrapping up the Christmas presents , or writing letters to friends , or having a long conversation with someone in the family who needs a bit of support , and fitting all that in after the children have gone to bed and the supper 's been washed up and you really ought to be reading papers for tomorrow 's meeting , I know I have a chunk of time when I can get on with doing all that . |
| 20 | But Miller 's achievement was to liberate the District from feelings of guilt that the bulk of its provision really ought to be Tutorial Classes for manual workers in political and social studies . |
| 21 | There really ought to be no further attempts to dramatically improve stamina now . |
| 22 | And another thing , you really ought to be venturing further afield ; travelling or doing something more challenging now and therefore perhaps you need a gentle prod to remind you that life is only , after all , what you make it . |
| 23 | ‘ I should n't really haff talked to a stranger like that , ’ she thought , as she hurried back through the wood , ‘ especially a tramp , but if people drop paper about they really ought to be told , because they get other people into trouble . |
| 24 | Hence , the leaden delivery of some Euro-platitudes , by a woman who really ought to be able to do a better job of reading other people 's speeches after 40 years of doing little else , carries more political import than anything else that has been said about Europe since the election . |
| 25 | You really ought to be wearing a ring , Lucinda . |
| 26 | Inevitably the system has not been rigorously followed ; thus in the Great Bear the brightest star is not Alpha , but Epsilon , which really ought to be fifth , while in Orion , Rigel ( Beta Orionis ) is brighter than Betelgeux ( Alpha ) . |
| 27 | This is officially the last of the Zodiacal constellations , though since it now contains the Vernal Equinox it really ought to be the first . |
| 28 | One megabyte is totally inadequate for running Windows ( version 3.1 requires a minimum of 2Mb ) and you really ought to be thinking about slamming in the RAM . |
| 29 | A a and if it says Intercity it then it then it really ought to be maroon or the |
| 30 | doing it Roger is that we sit here and we say to our clients , ah but you really ought to be coming to us because we 're railway experts . |