Example sentences of "[vb mod] to be doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | questions were being raised about what the police were doing , what they ought to be doing and how they ought to be organised and accountable . |
| 2 | That 's what you scientists ought to be doing , improving food production , and finding ways to colonize the planets and the moon , instead of messing about with people and the children they have . |
| 3 | You do n't fully savour happy/frivolous moments because of a gnawing feeling that you ought to be doing something more worthwhile . |
| 4 | And the non-practitioners say , look , wait a minute , this is what we ought to be doing . |
| 5 | I ought to be doing more than I am . |
| 6 | Below the surface there lies , for many teachers , a nagging sense of doubt and confusion about what they are doing , what they ought to be doing and what they are doing it for . |
| 7 | But the sort of criticism that says ‘ if we want to achieve X , I believe we are going the wrong way about it , what we ought to be doing is Y ’ , seems to me to be exactly the approach that is needed . |
| 8 | Questions relating to the way teachers perform their tasks can readily be translated into statements about what teachers ought to be doing ! |
| 9 | But I do believe that we ought to be doing more in terms of making sure they do come out erm you know i , we know it 's only a a training exercise even though you leave one or two in there , but I think we ought |
| 10 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 11 | I just felt I ought to be doing something and so I stuck to it . |
| 12 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 13 | The lady did n't come alone , and I 'm not sure whether we ought to be doing anything about it . |
| 14 | ‘ They say the Robemaker uses human fuel , ’ said Caspar , half to himself , and then , ‘ Fenella , do you really think we ought to be doing this ? |
| 15 | Er looking at this , if it 's actually a lot more central to what we ought to be doing . |
| 16 | That 's what I ought to be doing . |
| 17 | ‘ Do you think we ought to be doing this ? ’ she said in a rather strangled voice . |
| 18 | When we are told there is a shortage of floppy disks , what they ought to be doing is sending out working printing saving and using versions of their programs that we can load 10–20 times then said software will commit Hari Kari . |
| 19 | Yeah well you could go and talk to them and see what they what they thought you ought to be doing in that two years . |
| 20 | He said suddenly , ‘ Alice ought to be doing this . |
| 21 | Head : ‘ Departmental development , individual development , what we ought to be doing , awareness of your needs , give people new lease of life , new motivation . ’ |
| 22 | There are two things that governments ought to be doing . |
| 23 | Although erm his second idea second way of limiting the possibilities on is rather more difficult to accept now and his claim is that we should n't pay members of parliament , that people who go to parliament ought to be doing it out of duty and not out of er interest . |
| 24 | Let me put it to you this way you know as well as I do people who really ought to be doing something else other than teaching . |
| 25 | What sort of , erm , pressure or involvement or leadership ought to be given , or wh , yeah , what pressure ought to be put on the business sector , in order that it should sort of , conform conform is not a very good word , in order , it 's ability to contribute to the voluntary sector , and engage with it , should not be based upon individual and enlightened examples , such as I B M's , but should pull upwards the rest of the business sector , in other words , should N C V O actually says to the business sector as a whole , look , we think globally this is what you ought to be doing . |
| 26 | Erm I think I mean we ought to be doing more with the local Friends of the Earth and local Greenpeace I feel . |
| 27 | Now on the face of that that that that 's seems fairly sensible , y'know if somebody is in need we ought to be doing something about it . |
| 28 | But what if the parent is not happy with this and believes that their child really ought to be doing more homework ? |
| 29 | Well your , your little diagram shows that I really yes ought to be doing something about it , yeah . |
| 30 | So , but I , I think he thought Ken meant that he was like superior and he did n't ought to be doing that sort of job . |