Example sentences of "[coord] ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A right is a claim which is , or ought to be , enforceable against others . |
| 2 | The problem in part is ( or ought to be ) one of generalising successful practice , shaping it up so that it encompasses the whole school and motivates all the teachers , not just those who are keen , or authoritatively skilled , in transacting bits and pieces . |
| 3 | This view takes into account the general view that crime is or ought to be those actions which are considered so immoral or damaging that they should be subject to punishment . |
| 4 | If we cling to an outmoded view of neighbouring , peering at it through deeply rose-tinted spectacles , we may make false assumptions about what is actually available to old people , or ought to be available . |
| 5 | This easily translates into the notion that law is , or ought to be , on their side ; yet like other popular movements , the peace movement has found itself involved with ‘ the law ’ in a complex variety of ways , both passively and actively . |
| 6 | The negative criticisms of Communist strategy and conduct are largely valid , though implicit in them is — or ought to be — an even greater criticism of the Anglo-French policies that deprived the Republic of aid save from a Soviet regime whose diplomatic overtures the British and French governments spurned . |
| 7 | In the same way lovers and connoisseurs of beauty are what everyone else is , or ought to be working for , on Moore 's scheme . |
| 8 | At one time the question was much debated whether meta-ethics can or ought to be neutral as between ethical theories , or indeed whether the two should be distinguished at all . |
| 9 | Constructivist rationalism , which Hayek associates with the thought of Descartes , Hobbes , Rousseau , and Bentham , is founded on a belief that social institutions are , or ought to be , the product of deliberate design . |
| 10 | The acceptance of such a scheme meant that the government had accepted , albeit for economic and demographic reasons , the principle that ‘ society should include in its economic structure some form of direct financial provision for the maintenance of children , instead of proceeding on the assumption that , save in cases of exceptional misfortune , this is a matter which concerns only individual parents and should be left to them because normally men 's wages or salaries are , or ought to be and can be made to be , sufficient for the support of their families ’ ( Rathbone , 1940 ) . |
| 11 | It is easy to say that the years of Unionist rule were a travesty of what democracy is , or ought to be . |
| 12 | There are so many towns to be seen , and each must be — or ought to be — approached for the first time on foot : certainly all the smaller towns . |
| 13 | There is an unavoidable personal involvement in the consequences of political decisions and therefore the details of policy execution are , or ought to be , ‘ political matters ’ . |
| 14 | No adverse imputations need be or ought to be levelled at any of those witnesses . |
| 15 | But , unfortunately , there is by no means universal agreement on what the standards of appropriateness are or ought to be . ’ |
| 16 | Legitimacy … does not deal so much with whether activities of government are lawful as whether they accord with what are generally perceived to be or what have for long been held up to be , the fundamental principles of the constitution according to which government is or ought to be conducted . |
| 17 | Of course , such considerations may turn out to be erroneous ; but the choice is , or ought to be , a reasoned one . |
| 18 | Sixty seven of the pleadings bundle which are the further and better particulars this year and you can see that er looking back to page sixty six , what the plaintiffs have been asked to state was to give particulars of the change in financial position which had been outlined to Mr on the telephone and er your Lordship will see first of all that in answer eighty little A , there is a reference to er a letter of the twenty seventh of February nineteen ninety two which was a letter from the plaintiff 's solicitors to the defendant 's solicitors which , this is been incorporating in the front or ought to be in the bible , erm I do n't think it has been but there are copies if I can hand your Lordship it was missed out in error I am sorry . |
| 19 | Of course there are , and ought to be , a thousand images of God in which we represent him as changing his mind , forgetting , being angry , being him , doing all kinds of creaturely things ; our language of worship , of gratitude for existence , has to be full of such metaphors and images ; we must take these metaphors seriously , but if we take them literally , if we mistake these images for God , we are idolaters . |
| 20 | Afterwards the general meeting was disappointed and some said that this commission was unrepresentative of the Churches and ought to be disregarded . |
| 21 | More can and ought to be done , however . |
| 22 | He knew he was good-looking and ought to be admired . |
| 23 | It was argued in Chapter 2.5 and 2.6 that social attitudes towards various sources of harm are too hidebound by convention and ought to be re-examined . |
| 24 | Cheminage might be levied only ‘ in the places where it is accustomed and ought to be taken by ancient usage ’ , and only for wood from the king 's demesne woods . |
| 25 | But the result , the Thomas Neal Centre , sparkles and ought to be a great success ; as a development it works well . |
| 26 | No doubt I will request our librarian to get me some of the original references cited but my point is that surely Chemistry in Britain is written for the general interest and education of chemists and ought to be comprehensible to the reasonably trained chemist . |
| 27 | Various Parliamentary Committees and the Royal Commission of 1906 seem to have believed that this was possible and ought to be encouraged . |
| 28 | But joy of joys , the New Moon in Scorpio on the 29th and some stunning planetary aspects in early November should spark off some kind of personal revival and no matter how many times you have been let down or left in the lurch in the past , emotionally this can and ought to be one of the happiest times you have ever known . |
| 29 | Such comparisons are always possible , and ought to be made , if the worse an to improve . |
| 30 | In the blue corner : life as she could , should and ought to be . |