Example sentences of "ought [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It then considered whether the agreement ought properly to be exempted under Art 85(3) . |
| 2 | Held ( 1 ) that the public interest in preserving confidentiality underlying the particular implied undertaking by B. added little if anything to the public interest which gave rise to the basic claim of public interest immunity attaching to the authority 's documents ; so that , if that immunity ought properly to be overridden in the light of countervailing public interest arising , that countervailing interest would also outweigh such limited value as still attached to B. 's implied undertaking ( post , pp. 926H — 927A ) . |
| 3 | If that immunity ought properly to be overridden in light of the countervailing public interest arising , then in our view that countervailing interest will outweigh too such limited value as still attaches to the implied undertaking . |
| 4 | She believed that private medicine ought not to coexist by the side of the Health Service ; or perhaps more fairly , that if it did exist it should not derive any benefits from the Health Service , and that none of the resources of the Service ought properly to be available to private practitioners . |
| 5 | The problem is determining where the balance ought properly to be drawn . |
| 6 | In his introduction to the published plans of this and some of his other early houses he writes , ‘ Ornaments are to be cautiously introduced ; those ought only to be used that are simple , applicable and characteristic of their situations : they must be designed with regularity and be perfectly distinct in their outlines … |
| 7 | Fundamental and irreversible changes ought only to be imposed , if at all , in the light of an unmistakable national consensus . |
| 8 | If it were , our decision ought obviously to be amenable to appeal . |
| 9 | Most importantly , this response ought sensibly to be in line with current market trends : financial diversification , the breaking down of barriers , and the consequent growth of integrated financial houses . |
| 10 | It follows therefore that a discussion of the effectiveness of the Chinese Wall ( a self regulatory/quasi-statutory mechanism designed , inter alia , to prevent insider dealing ) ought sensibly to be preceded by an initial outline of the substantive law regulating the practice , the likelihood of detection , and the penalties capable of being imposed . |
| 11 | That is when you ought perhaps to be encouraging some running . |
| 12 | If this perspective is adopted , environmentalists ought perhaps to be grateful for the fact that the vast majority of farmers are not more economically rational when they come to organize the husbandry of their farms and that the inertia introduced by the historical pattern of landownership and farm structure in this country has acted as a brake on landscape change . |
| 13 | After attending Mrs. Scaler 's funeral , Green writes ‘ the mind and the body , to produce good and prevent evil ought constantly to be engaged in such pursuits as are consistent with future prospects of happiness ’ . |
| 14 | ( e ) there was widespread agreement amongst those who opposed the proposal , that a solicitor who wished to act in the circumstances outlined in the question ought nevertheless to be under an obligation to disclose to the lender any personal , family or employee interests attaching to the transaction which might give rise to a conflict . |
| 15 | In each of these cases there is a disposition whose content is not made clear by the words in the will , and the question for the jurist is whether that means the disposition is void or that it ought somehow to be supplemented . |
| 16 | William Assheton 's attitude to the design of the conversion was based on the view that although the building might function as a house , it ought still to be recognisable as a church . |
| 17 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 18 | But the parishes , and the parish missions , were central to the care of souls ; and their ministers ought always to be refreshing themselves in the truths of the Christian faith , so that they do not slip ‘ into versions of it which miss its height and depth and wonder ’ ; and those ministers ought always to make room in their lives for silence and the chance of realizing their nearness to eternity . |
| 19 | ‘ We ought none of us to lose sight of the fact that human beings count far more than institutions or procedures or precedents , and we ought always to be willing , given justification , to sacrifice the latter to the former . ’ |
| 20 | It could be argued , therefore , that good education ought always to be based on multi-cultural principles . |
| 21 | The decision that Shakespeare faced hundreds of times — whether to put his words , as Dryden expressed it , into verse or into ‘ the other harmony of prose ’ — is one that the reader ought always to be alert to , for each decision signals an element of dramatic meaning that we can yet recover . |
| 22 | Figure 9–3(b) illustrates the special ease where A and B have identical utility functions or , alternatively , where it is accepted that A and B ought always to be treated as if they had identical utility functions . |
| 23 | If the death penalty did deter , then so distinctive and so dramatic is the sanction that its effect ought also to be too marked to overlook or dispute . |
| 24 | Fundamental respect for individuals as autonomous , rational beings suggests that their liberty to risk injury or to undergo assaults , however serious , ought also to be respected . |
| 25 | I have to acknowledge too that since you ought to be aware from your fellow 's viewpoints and incline towards their benefit as well as your own , and ought also to be aware that individuals can not benefit themselves or each other by community without agreeing on common rules , the rules you follow in acting towards your fellows should be those of your community and not of mine . |
| 26 | Clearly , it could not have enhanced it ; why obey a legal system in which senior officials publicly pose as against one thing but privately collude in its occurrence — not only ought they to be condemned as hypocrites but their laws ought also to be disregarded as mere propaganda concealing the lack of will to control corporate behaviour . |
| 27 | It ought also to be useful because it provides a context which is meaningful to children , and in which a variety of reading skills can be learned . |
| 28 | Conversely , it ought also to be recognizably an advertising business — not an insurance office or a bank or the civil service . |
| 29 | So I think we ought to be considering the entire sum of money but we ought also to be looking for ways in which we could be maximising the total impact . |
| 30 | Both SBU managers and their superiors ought also to be aware of the time pattern of likely ROI development in each part of the group . |