Example sentences of "thing [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage of having trekked with a World Challenge Expedition is that another time she will know how things ought to be planned . |
| 2 | All is not true , so not everything should be believed ; some things ought to be doubted . |
| 3 | It involves not only a judgment about the way things are but also the way things ought to be . |
| 4 | Things ought to be more equal . ’ |
| 5 | Do n't you think , Mr Vansitart , that the really nice thing about human beings is the notion we do have that things ought to be somehow fair — though nowhere in nature do we have evidence that God understands the concept at all . |
| 6 | Meg , who thought things ought to be done properly , invited Alan 's parents round for tea , just before Christmas . |
| 7 | Changed circumstances also mattered to Waters ( 1979 : 47 ) who described outstanding schools as places which were run by heads " with flair , wisdom , energy and that sense of knowing how things ought to be " but who emphasized , too , that these qualities needed to be partnered with an ability in organization and management in a wide variety of fields . |
| 8 | The increasing importance of a senior participant 's ability in management and organization led to the conversion of traditional heads from being people of experience and goodwill ( and who had a sense of how things ought to be ) into planners and implementers . |
| 9 | The two things ought to be connected . |
| 10 | One of the central ideas here is that persuasion through the use of enthymemes relies on what is expected , habitual and assumed , and not on truth , reality , or the way things ought to be . |
| 11 | I am depressed by the lack of provision for small children , because although we have things like the Equal Opportunities Commission and the S S R C funding , very generously research into what they call women 's under-achievement , educationally and occupationally and so on , that does n't seem to be the area in which things ought to be being done . |
| 12 | And somewhere through the hotel muzak lurks the sensation that things used to be different , that we ( my brother and I ) had n't always been wrapped in jumpers , silent , staring at the screen , that the days used to be hot and long . |
| 13 | Within yards of the station , you can catch trout for tea , sup Yorkshire ale , and see how things used to be at Beck Isle Museum of Rural Life . |
| 14 | It is pointless.and harmful to hark back to how things used to be , although the conflict of loyalties may be hard to handle . |
| 15 | Through events of different kinds we are likely to be put in touch with aspects of ourselves which previously have been overlooked — we are given a jolt , and have to make a bridge between how things used to be and how they threatened . |
| 16 | ‘ Let's get back to the safe , sure way things used to be , ’ was its implicit message , ‘ back to the virtues and verities that have served ‘ us ’ since time immemorial . ’ |
| 17 | And erm these things used to used to sort of wind the r the the the spring or the leather thong around th top and start it off to spinning you know and then you 'd keep whipping it like that and you could make these things jump into the air , in fact a friend of mine was telling me , we were talking about it the other day . |
| 18 | No , the way things used to be was working very well thank you . |
| 19 | If she knew a thing ought to be done she would really push hard . " |
| 20 | Erm Mrs Moody from Hucknall thinks that er that leaf stem thing ought to be off in a garden somewhere . |