Example sentences of "society [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believed that society ought to be ordered , not according to how sinful men wished to live , but in accordance with God 's divine commandments . |
| 2 | The wide variety of scenarios should , we argue throughout this book , be treated as a series of options over which we as a society ought to be able to exercise some choice . |
| 3 | So land-holding companies were not in favour , while the idea that land should be held by a great individual landlord fitted the way people thought society ought to be run . |
| 4 | These competing perspectives on the range of viable solutions will flow also from the fact that theories normally carry with them implicit and explicit notions of how society ought to be structured . |
| 5 | In particular it was felt that swifter and more decisive action on the part of the SCB in response to warnings passed by concerned solicitors and local law societies ought to be effected . |
| 6 | There are some widespread and questionable assumptions in nearly all this literature as to what societies used to be like before the advent of industrialism and capitalism . |