Example sentences of "[Wh det] we [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is something of which we ought to be extremely wary . |
| 2 | But there 's no , it seems to me there 's no fundamental change in Government policy and if you are only bringing forward er a change in policy er to this alteration on the basis that er there was some extra P P G guidance we would n't just be dealing with countryside policy here we would be dealing with a policy about telecommunications , wind farms , a whole raft of things er which which we ought to be really dealing with . |
| 3 | And the non-practitioners say , look , wait a minute , this is what we ought to be doing . |
| 4 | But the sort of criticism that says ‘ if we want to achieve X , I believe we are going the wrong way about it , what we ought to be doing is Y ’ , seems to me to be exactly the approach that is needed . |
| 5 | With that as the background , it is the time for a deep study of the philosophy underlying the system — to determine afresh what we ought to be seeking to achieve , to examine how far and in what manner the results of our present practice fall short , and to sift new ideas in order to judge which of them appear both constructive and practicable in operation . |
| 6 | I know what we ought to be looking for — a high , lonely place with dry soil , where rabbits can see and hear all round and men hardly ever come . |
| 7 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 8 | procedures which are , do n't quite fit you , then I think what we ought to be looking for is a certain amount of common ground between your procedure and our procedure , so there is not something , you 're doing something completely different to the way the rest of us are doing it . |
| 9 | No doubt our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be ; for all that , it felt like a step forward — and upward . |
| 10 | Er looking at this , if it 's actually a lot more central to what we ought to be doing . |
| 11 | Head : ‘ Departmental development , individual development , what we ought to be doing , awareness of your needs , give people new lease of life , new motivation . ’ |
| 12 | What we ought to be aiming for is more localised revolved estate management . |
| 13 | It was a timid first step as to what , compared with what we ought to be doing . |
| 14 | And I think they have a tremendous contribution to make , and I think what we ought to be doing with er people who retire , it 's not to say the end of their working life , and therefore they 're on the scrap heap , but that it 's a new stage in life and we ought to honour them and respect them and I think , give them some er affirm where they 're at , and use them much more as the guardians of wisdom and the guardians of the stories of the community , and use them in that sort of way . |
| 15 | We will do what we can to er speed things and to catch up . |
| 16 | Yeah , I would like to do is just mention that it 's so surprising really that er the resources used are out of all proportion to what we used to er do on it , on the other central panel . |
| 17 | But he was tt er a twist hand in the hosiery trade , making socks , and he worked in the last mobile , not mobile , er mechanical stocking manufacturers , owned by my uncle , Mr Frank , in Street and th what we used to called Street . |
| 18 | You want you say your mid- thirties erm er to sort of campaign with but I think we really , this is what we used to be , a campaigning movement and this is what we are no longer . |