Example sentences of "ought [prep] [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the moment is before a lunch on the plane , it really ought to be a Bloody Mary . |
| 2 | About this time he started to wonder whether he ought to be a monk . |
| 3 | There ought to be a law against them . |
| 4 | Both the farmers and the conservationists agree that there ought to be a debate . |
| 5 | By any standards , being a big Hollywood studio ought to be a remarkably good business . |
| 6 | There ought to be a right to protest in public , it might be argued , and where the bona fide exercise of this right happens to lead to some form of disorder , it is wrong to visit the perpetrators with severe sanctions . |
| 7 | The home ought to be a safe haven , the place where people go to get away from fear and violence , and it is this fundamental feeling of safety which can be destroyed by child sexual abuse . |
| 8 | No complaints about roominess up front but , surprisingly for what ought to be a five-seater , three in the back would need to be qualified weight watchers . |
| 9 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 10 | There ought to be a law against cutting off power supplies in the middle of February . |
| 11 | Though flanked by what ought to be a couple of monstrosities of incongruence — the Hilton Hotel and the nineteenth-century Fisherman 's Bastion — all seem quite compatible . |
| 12 | But the result , the Thomas Neal Centre , sparkles and ought to be a great success ; as a development it works well . |
| 13 | THERE ought to be a law against it . |
| 14 | He issues an encyclical saying hard drugs should be made cheaply available to addicts to cut out the mobsters , and insists that every child ought to be a wanted child . |
| 15 | Working with networks ought to be a fundamental social work skill capable of being exercised almost regardless of organizational characteristics . |
| 16 | There ought to be a law . |
| 17 | That is why the game is called a dilemma , why it seems so maddeningly paradoxical , and why it has even been proposed that there ought to be a law against it . |
| 18 | Nails said defiantly , ‘ There ought to be a reserve in this team , in case . |
| 19 | That the worlds of business and education should learn from one another ought to be a truism , given that both worlds and cultures impinge on and shape most people 's lives . |
| 20 | Of someone who ought to be a Friend |
| 21 | Of someone who ought to be a friend . |
| 22 | Just as there ought to be a Radio 2 equivalent of John Maddox 's excellent Scientifically Speaking ( which seems , unaccountably , to have disappeared ) , so such widely relevant debates should find a place on BBC 1 . |
| 23 | If that 's the case , then the Panda Selecta ought to be a popular choice for many town buyers , given that it 's less than £6,000 . |
| 24 | There ought to be a law against it . |
| 25 | ‘ He ought to be a twelve or a thirteen , he 's so good . |
| 26 | They are , of course , Norwich City , a club so far ahead in the League that the title ought to be a formality . |
| 27 | Jules ought to be a decorated member of the barmy army , as he travels from Norwich , where he could watch the Premier League leaders . |
| 28 | Perhaps we ought to be a little more circumspect . |
| 29 | It seems unlikely that the breakfasts will alter much , but you will have to judge what would be acceptable for the two conferences ( we think that the evening meal ought to be a three course affair with a food cost closer to £2 or so ) . |
| 30 | ‘ There ought to be a law against it , ’ replied Dorothy emphatically , as she banged knives and forks down on to the table . |