Example sentences of "ought to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspect that some of the drug barons who shell out money in support of what must be a pretty costly operation regard the academically-minded staff of the OHE as a bunch of eggheads , not to say ‘ wets ’ , who ought to be earning their keep by polishing up the industry 's somewhat tarnished image , and by encouraging sales , instead of spending their time and the companies ' profits on airy-fairy projects which are n't going to rustle up a pennyworth of business . |
| 2 | As such , the operation was essentially different from planning which involved prior political judgements about what ought to be achieved . |
| 3 | I respectfully agree with the judge that that would be an inappropriate way of achieving the result which clearly ought to be achieved , which is that a child abducted in the way this little boy was should be able to return home pending a decision as to whether he lives with his father or with his mother . |
| 4 | In July 1944 he had told the American government and in December 1944 the Soviet government that the left bank of the Rhine ought to be detached from the rest of Germany and placed under French authority , while the Ruhr 's industrial resources should be controlled by an international authority . |
| 5 | The advantage of having trekked with a World Challenge Expedition is that another time she will know how things ought to be planned . |
| 6 | ‘ You ought to be listening to the grass roots and saying : ‘ Look , we 've started doing the tests , we 've found they are n't working as they should . |
| 7 | ‘ When they go onto these so-called new diets , people tend to lose weight because they automatically restrict themselves without realising they ought to be eating more bread , cereals , fruit and vegetables . |
| 8 | In 1959 I started to take an interest in flight data recorders and it appeared to me that they ought to be fitted to large public transport aircraft as a legal requirement . |
| 9 | I am not a councillor nor politician whose job ought to be sorting out this dilemma . |
| 10 | Professor W. F. Grimes in his essay ‘ The Archaeology of the Stamford Region ’ in The Making of Stamford suggests that ‘ the inscription on the recently erected pillar that marks the Roman crossing on the Welland ought to be replaced by one which does less violence to the facts as they appear to be . ’ |
| 11 | " Two of these beams ought to be replaced , " he said . |
| 12 | There has been some of the same controversy over the role of the mental handicap hospitals as over the psychiatric hospitals , but on the whole the issue is clearer : they ought to be replaced by smaller units , ranging from hostels and homes to specialist hospital units able to provide intensive nursing for the severely handicapped minority . |
| 13 | Well , if we 're really into wider democracy we ought to be promoting wider debate , please support . |
| 14 | I think now that it exists it ought to be giving money to these things , but I think it ought to be taking the advice of the panels of artists and museum people . |
| 15 | Me and my mates , we do n't think Britain ought to be taking Poland 's side against Russia . |
| 16 | Just about the time when a nome ought to be taking it easy . |
| 17 | As soon as those are published , employers are put on notice that there are steps they really ought to be taking . |
| 18 | I think , we ought to be taking time to try and prepare , well for the next assembly and in doing so to own what goes on there and to say , yes as the previous speaker said we are the World Church in a very real way . |
| 19 | However , Mill was against a secret ballot , Mill thought votes ought to be cast publicly and the reason for this is that he thought people ought to be voting on their view of what is right and so therefore they ought to be publicly accountable . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A kind of ring fence is drawn around them and the onus lies on the government to show whether , why and to what extent this ought to be breached . |
| 22 | You have needs which ought to be filled and — ’ |
| 23 | The New Testament ought to be understood not as a resource for abstract theological thinking , but as a divine drama : the story of the Great Battle . |
| 24 | More interesting , in the context of this chapter , is the fact that these developments and the confusion in Marx 's own writings have generated an internal debate amongst Marxists over what he really meant and how his initial insights ought to be understood in modern times . |
| 25 | The county council has taken those decisions and we think they ought to be debated vigorously and following that discussion , the panel will come to its conclusion . |
| 26 | The two things ought to be connected . |
| 27 | It was argued in Chapter 2.5 and 2.6 that social attitudes towards various sources of harm are too hidebound by convention and ought to be re-examined . |
| 28 | Garbett decided that no one after himself ought to be made to live in a château like Bishopthorpe . |
| 29 | Moreover , even at common law a lease which ought to be made by deed but is not will not completely fail of effect , if possession is taken and rent paid under it ; the tenant will be treated as tenant from year to year upon the terms of the lease so far as they are applicable to such a tenancy . |
| 30 | Such comparisons are always possible , and ought to be made , if the worse an to improve . |