Example sentences of "something ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And Dyson felt that something ought to be said . |
| 4 | The acoustics in the hall are not good and it was agreed that something ought to be done to improve this . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Now , if ever , between hymn and prayer , something ought to be said about Hilary . |
| 7 | The acoustics in the hall are not good and it was agreed that something ought to be done to improve this . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The memorial appeared 50 years later through the hard work of a local newspaper reporter who thought something ought to be done . |
| 10 | 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 |