Example sentences of "[noun prp] ought " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOREMAN : ‘ Holyfield ought to be scared because the only person that can stop Lewis winning the title now is Lewis . |
| 2 | If women are to be judged by their appearance , Mira ought to give up books : |
| 3 | Nonetheless , Niki soon built on an overwhelming lead in the championship , though a first crisis came at Long Beach when Audetto suggested that Clay Regazzoni ought to have his day in the sun . |
| 4 | With a passionate love of the visual arts , an intelligent partner to guide her purchases , and a large income to spend on pretty much any picture she fancied , Queen Victoria ought to have been one of the most distinguished of all royal collectors . |
| 5 | Having noticed this discrepancy , Husameddin suggests that the text of Ibn Hajar ought to read thus suggesting that a ( seven ) has dropped out of the text . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think Perdita ought to have wine if she 's going to ride , ’ said Sukey . |
| 7 | Montano reacts to this inversion of the truth with the correct response ( assuming it to be true ) which Iago has elicited from him , namely that Othello ought to be told ; at which point Iago demurs , with the pretence of friendship : From that declaration , after the ensuing brawl , Iago has built himself a platform from which he can now act the perfect friend : As we alone know , to get the truth from what Iago says about Cassio one must simply invert everything he says . |
| 8 | ‘ That the freedome of speech and debates or proceedings in Parlyament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parlyament . |
| 9 | Well I reckon that erm Andy ought to sort mine out . |
| 10 | ‘ I think Donna ought to know , do n't you ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Where a party can only be liable if negligent , a clause such as that in White v Warwick ought to be enough to protect against liability , even if parallel liability for failure to take reasonable care could be imposed in tort and contract ( Alderslade v Hendon Laundry Ltd [ 1945 ] KB 189 ) . |
| 13 | I did n't bother to ask whether Safranski ought to be consulted . |
| 14 | At a time when constitutional change and development at home and across the North Sea are much in the air , I am an unequivocal and enthusiastic backer of the idea that Scotland ought to seek as soon as possible to become a member state of the European Community . |
| 15 | After 30 minutes of shattering windscreens , faces outside the shower door , spooky ‘ phone calls and ghostly voices echoing round the stately home , the fetching Lisa Orgolini ought to have been pretty shattered herself but contrived a successful fight-back against ancestral menace . |
| 16 | If Irish industry is indeed managing its 17 000 out of 20 000 tonnes production of toxic wastes so efficiently that it pollutes neither land nor water then Ireland ought , by right , to become top European advisor on wastes handling . |
| 17 | Finally , it suggested that interconnection with the Republic of Ireland ought to be re-eastablished . |
| 18 | But as Ted Sandy-man ought to have realised , ‘ you 've got to have grist before you can grind ’ ; machine-masters end up machine-minders , and all for nothing , or rather for an insidious logic of expansion . |
| 19 | That is what the participants at Maastricht ought to think about and what the House should direct the Government to think about . |
| 20 | David Burt , as Macheath , is a convincing cock-of-the-walk , even if the ideal Macheath ought to be more debonair . |
| 21 | Gray ought to have been cancelling his youth club , which he usually held on a Thursday evening . |
| 22 | I think before we take any urgent action we ought to Alan ought to monitor the situation . |
| 23 | His betrayal of Nicola Hammond ought to have annoyed her — not for Nicola 's sake , but because she was reminded of risks she 'd taken ; of risks she might have to take . |
| 24 | More to the point is that the Discourse indicates the scientism of the period : it is taken for granted by the lecturer that Turner ought to paint a tree of a recognizable species , for example , and assumed that portrait painters are after an exact likeness . |
| 25 | From evidence available this week , by which I mean the remarkable feats of sharp reflex and well-practised agility Peter Shilton performed against Poland in a crucial World Cup qualifying tie in Chorzow , England ought not to embark for Italy next summer without first packing trench tools and barbed wire , while giving some serious attention to the laying of mines in their penalty area . |
| 26 | In January 1928 he was invited back to speak at the Cambridge Union , on the motion that the Church of England ought to be disestablished . |
| 27 | Ramsey confessed that they had done a lot of harm and ought to apologize but said that the best of them were trying to , and that the Church of England ought to apologize to the high churchmen for the way in which it sometimes treated them . |
| 28 | Indeed , in the aftermath of Paris , one camp-following hack remarked that England ought to score about 437 points against the current Welsh team . |
| 29 | Finch , however , denounced the 1300 perambulation as ‘ false and erroneous ’ , and coerced the Grand Jury and Forest officers into returning a verdict ‘ that the Meetes and Boundes of the Forrest of Deane ought to be according to the Perambulations made ’ in 1228 and 1282 . |
| 30 | That Jurors ought to be duely impannelled and returned and Jurors which passe upon men in tryalls for high Treason ought to be free holders . |