Example sentences of "ought to be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You ought to be strong enough by then to cope with the journey , and I can try to organise things at the hospital so that my assistants can cope . ’
2 But erm I th they are worried certainly , one or two of them are worried , but er some of this equipment is left on , and left on unnecessarily and we ought to be encouraging people to switch off what is n't
3 Figure 1.1 on page 4 drew attention to six qualities which the whole of the curriculum ought to be encouraging .
4 For Marxist or Hegelian thought , such an age-old contradiction ought to be resolvable through the operations of dialectical logic .
5 The argument advanced here is that insider dealing is the sort of conduct which ought to be criminal .
6 Now this may sound like fatuous bluster but suspicion of businessmen ought to be understandable in an era of commerce made squalid by stock-market muggings on a grand scale .
7 She ought to be relieved to be free of his company for a while .
8 ( These two functions ought to be separate .
9 For all your alleged love for the poor and the oppressed , you seem to think that the public ought to be selfish when it votes .
10 It was clever of humankind to invent science and art to supply the deficiencies of nature , and we ought to be proud .
11 Be we 've got a lot that we ought to be proud of .
12 The duty of the police when they arrest without warrant is , no doubt , to be quick to see the possibility of crime , but equally they ought to be anxious to avoid mistaking the innocent for the guilty …
13 It was in their interests to make work for the dental profession and sell vitamin C , not to let it get about that simply by keeping their hands where they ought to be young people could have healthy teeth and gums for life .
14 This implies that E. coli 's chromosomal information ought to be stable .
15 And it 's a very different matter if you can start tracing sexual spider 's webs that link fabulous-looking women with men who ought to be unrelated : secretaries of state on the one hand and ( say ) drug-dealers , gun-runners , con-men , terrorists or Russian spies on the other .
16 ‘ I think that people ought to be upset , ’ he wrote ; ‘ I think that life is so important and , in its workings , so upsetting that nobody should be spared . ’
17 At one time the question was much debated whether meta-ethics can or ought to be neutral as between ethical theories , or indeed whether the two should be distinguished at all .
18 The people in the company who will have to run the system , the manager or director in whose department the system will be installed ought to be involved in the selection process , but such people are unlikely to have much knowledge of computers and computer software although they may be familiar with word processing and spreadsheet systems running on microcomputers .
19 After 16 years you ought to be fluent in the language and , if you make this a priority now , you 'll be enhancing this phase of your life instead of simply waiting for it to pass .
20 Probably having keys would bee greeted with horror by some , but it ought to be possible to rationalise the finger holes .
21 If I understand him aright , it ought to be possible to show that Descartes ' stripping away of the ‘ accidental ’ qualities of objects is illegitimate , because based on a series of elisions of meaning between one use of an expression and another where the two expressions look the same but have different meanings .
22 It ought to be possible to get to a position where we can say with regard to a specific query : ‘ These are the most inherently valuable sources available worldwide ‘ about ’ that subject . ’
23 On those grounds it ought to be possible to argue that , if a trust has been created , it is actionable if the standard of care shown by the fathers was adequate in the judgment of a good man .
24 With so many variable factors , it ought to be possible to provide a ‘ fit ’ to almost any curve ; the interesting point of the study is whether or not the scale factors put into the equations seem to be saying anything that would lead to an elucidation of the influences at work .
25 As you indicated , it ought to be possible to let unsold units in the normal way , and even to let owners ' units on an agency basis .
26 However it ought to be possible to bring the reasons for it out into the light , and by doing so to show that whatever may be said of Tolkien 's view of reality , it was neither escapist nor thoughtless .
27 It ought to be possible to tell within the next few weeks whether the measures the government has introduced over the past year are delivering the hoped-for results .
28 It ought to be possible for the teacher at this stage to spot skill weaknesses , and to introduce activities designed to remedy them — activities of which the children can see the point .
29 It is in fact a movement : a coming together of teachers whose common conviction it is that teaching up to now has been conducted in far too random and amateurish a fashion , based at best on a kind of inspired guesswork , and that it ought to be possible by putting our minds to it , and applying the sort of thinking that is successful in other fields , to do a better job than before .
30 By asking such questions it ought to be possible to begin to address systematically some of the sources of organizational diversity which both modernity and postmodernity present to us in their many authentic ways , rather than trying to push them all into a limited number of boxes made to a dominant pattern .
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