Example sentences of "than it ought [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No cleverer than it ought to be |
| 2 | I will be arguing in this address that we have been as guilty as many other sections of our community in treating it too lightly , or in putting it lower down in our order of priorities than it ought to be ; but it has never been entirely absent from Christian thought or theology . |
| 3 | There were plenty of vile smells , and the train was colder than it ought to be . |
| 4 | And although a green glow that is weaker than it ought to be might mean that some of the cells in the area are turning malignant , it might also mean that the operator has the end of the bronchoscope too far from the target , or pointing at an awkward angle . |
| 5 | You definitely feel all the time that it could go faster than it ought to — it 's a jet fighter rather than an airbus . ’ |
| 6 | Penzias and Wilson were worried when they found that their detector was picking up more noise than it ought to . |
| 7 | Well , in my sums that comes to er , something like er , fifty per cent more than it ought to be . |
| 8 | That 's a factor of something like three hundred per cent than it , than it ought to be in terms of inflation and the County Treasurer 's budget of plus five per cent which is well in excess of two hundred per cent . |