Example sentences of "[indef pn] ought [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone ought to be up in arms about it . ’ |
| 2 | You think the whole blooming world 's all arranged so as everything ought to be your way . |
| 3 | They are nice people : they believe that everything ought to be fair , that is to say that virtue is rewarded and villainy punished . |
| 4 | After an absence of so many years , this kissing among men seems an odd thing , but one ought to be thankful for small mercies : at least it is only two kisses and not three , as is the Russian custom . |
| 5 | It is possible to make some observations of the law relating to obscenity and indecency which indicate that , while accepting that one ought to be guided by the rule of law in censorship matters , one would be better advised to come to decisions without reference to this or that piece of obscenity or indecency legislation . |
| 6 | Going out to tea always seemed to her a waste of time , but to refuse might have seemed churlish , and she knew that in the country one ought to be friends with one 's neighbours . |
| 7 | We put it in the grammatically imperative mood in order to show up starkly its difference from factual statements , but also to leave room to interpret it according to circumstances as the strong ‘ One ought to be aware of this ’ , or as ‘ It is a good thing to be aware of this ’ , or in diminishing degrees , as the prospect of something coming within one 's range of choice becomes remote , ‘ Other things being equal , it is better to be aware of it than not ’ . |
| 8 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |
| 9 | Others , however , would rather maintain that these charges have sometimes been exaggerated , but that they do highlight genuine dangers of which one ought to be aware in reading Barth : dangers which lie partly in what he actually says , but also partly in what he can very easily be taken to be saying when his real meaning is subtly but significantly different . |
| 10 | My Lords , this appeal exemplifies the conflict between two principles , one that no one ought to be compelled to incriminate himself and the other that justice should be done between the parties to an action . |
| 11 | The less one is who one thinks one ought to be , the more one is who one is . |
| 12 | Suppose one went to Boston and found one ought to be in Chicago ? |
| 13 | This was an insensitive remark , and Ayling shamed her by suggesting that the things one ought to be able to do were often impossible . |
| 14 | If one can go north , one can turn around and head south ; equally , if one can go forward in imaginary time , one ought to be able to turn round and go backward . |
| 15 | Even if it is arguable for the purposes of theological discussion that the mode of being in which contemplative knowledge of God becomes a reality is superior to the demands of the active life , Augustine recognised that in the fallen world the two were indissolubly linked and complementary : for no one ought to be so leisured as to take no thought in that leisure for the interest of his neighbour , nor so active as to feel no need for the contemplation of God . |
| 16 | Extraordinary colouring , extraordinary , now 's the time one ought to be out and about , seeing that sort of thing . |
| 17 | Michael Lawrence says that the Government accepts there is a problem and that ideally something ought to be done about it : ‘ It 's now just a question of what can be afforded ’ . |
| 18 | Where there was reluctance — as in Britain — middle-class pressure had to be brought to bear in order to convince the politicians that something ought to be done . |
| 19 | And Dyson felt that something ought to be said . |
| 20 | The acoustics in the hall are not good and it was agreed that something ought to be done to improve this . |
| 21 | But the end of something ought to be the start of something else , and I ca n't yet feel what 's meant to be beginning . |
| 22 | Now , if ever , between hymn and prayer , something ought to be said about Hilary . |
| 23 | The acoustics in the hall are not good and it was agreed that something ought to be done to improve this . |
| 24 | They were the products of the free institutions of which Britons are bidden to think with pride … one duty was clear : even the vaguest altruist felt that something ought to be done about it . |
| 25 | The memorial appeared 50 years later through the hard work of a local newspaper reporter who thought something ought to be done . |
| 26 | just see them all getting away with it and they makes me thing something ought to be done , which has the people that lose out or the people who go in there very politely , fill out their claim |
| 27 | Come on nearly everybody ought to be able to work this one out now . |
| 28 | Sennett was the initial genius who taught the others that anything ought to be tried that produced laughter and that the ultimate test was whether any movie actually worked for audiences . |