Example sentences of "ought [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not so sensible as we ought to be of the Providence which hourly sustains us . |
| 2 | Thus , a book explaining what goes into water-based coatings , and why , ought to be of interest both to the specialist coating technologist and to the industrial chemist . |
| 3 | ‘ These louts who , long ago , should have been smacked on the behind by their parents ’ excited Sir Marcus Lipton , who was something of a Parliamentary dove on these occasions , no less than Mr Gerald Nabarro who considered that ‘ a proper policy ought to be to ‘ whack the thugs ' ’ ’ . |
| 4 | It would suggest that when faced with a choice between a case which rests on constitutional theories about limited government derived from a ‘ higher law ’ which controlled what government could legitimately do , and a case which rested on actual practices of government bolstered by actual law , the jury preferred the theory of what the constitution ought to be to the practice of what it is . |
| 5 | It is both ‘ the response of ordinary people to trends in government practices which seem to them to be , in perhaps indefinable ways , wrong ’ and a preference for ‘ the theory of what the constitution ought to be to the practice of what it is ’ . |
| 6 | It seems to me that there ought to be to edges to a campaign to make medicines safer . |
| 7 | Erm er the costing involves we will just say we ought to be for the first fortnight . |
| 8 | I 'm subbing Neil but that 's out of money which he gives me and which really in theory ought to be for my own , own use you know for fun but I get housing benefit for him , from the council . |
| 9 | Between your legs the silver comets spiral through the night , I lose myself , he says … he says … how beautiful you are Maggie and how beautiful life ought to be with you . |
| 10 | I suppose you 'll be off with them to the theatre again , when you ought to be with Charles . ’ |
| 11 | It looks as if it ought to be with the compound ones but it 's not . |
| 12 | It was all a plot to distort what she said , a plot between her husband and brother to take her daughter away from her , and her daughter had never got into any trouble while she was with her , and that she ought to be with other girls of her own age and with her own mother . |
| 13 | She ducked her head in miserable assent , then , because his agreeing with what she had said hurt her in spite of everything , she added rashly , ‘ You ought to be with a woman like Marise . ’ |
| 14 | Well , the cleaners ought to be at work ; and they might have left the outer door open . |
| 15 | Paul remembered the Colonel , an old martinet who was one of those who had made it evident that he ought to be at home helping his mother . |
| 16 | If we believe that words can be ‘ reclaimed ’ , then woman ought to be at the top of the list . |
| 17 | His cousin , Francis Drake , who had also been among the survivors of San Juan de Ulloa , took a more aggressive attitude to the Spanish empire ; as an uncompromising Protestant he felt that his country ought to be at war with Spain and , if it would not do this , he would fight on his own account , looking round for people prepared to invest in a private attack on the wealth of Spain . |
| 18 | ‘ I think you ought to be at home yourself , ’ he answered . |
| 19 | On some occasions family members will attempt to sabotage treatment saying that the primary sufferer is being brainwashed , ought to be at home , ought to learn to hold his or her alcohol like everybody else and ought to do all manner of things that have failed before and will fail again to help addictive disease . |
| 20 | Rich Adrian , who looked as if he ought to be at public school , only his parents did n't believe in it , even thought they had pots of cash . |
| 21 | Clearly the best location ought to be at point eight . |
| 22 | there 's two files at the end which I thought maybe ought to be at the beginning . |
| 23 | Turning 30 , 40 or 50 can be the start of something great Sex with a younger man — it ought to be on prescription ! |
| 24 | If you take an historic perspective on lifespan , then our sisterly generation ought to be on its knees with gratitude — 28 was the equivalent of 70-plus to an Iron Age woman . |
| 25 | The bodyguard eyed Grimm as though the Squat was some pet monkey of this merchant and ought to be on a lead . |
| 26 | It shows how many items of the product ought to be on the shelf ; how many are still in the stock room ; the minimum number that the store is supposed to be carrying ; whether fresh ones have been ordered if stocks are too low ; what the current price is ; and whether that price is the Kmart standard , or has been lowered to beat local competitors . |
| 27 | We ought to be on the top — on the top and in the open . " |
| 28 | All the legends are clearly printed on the keytops in the same colours as the original , the only missing one is Break which ought to be on the Space bar but is n't . |
| 29 | " If you do n't want me any longer I ought to be on my way to the hospital . |
| 30 | ‘ If you 're sure you 're all right , James , we ought to be on our way . ’ |