Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone ought to be up in arms about it . ’ |
| 2 | You think the whole blooming world 's all arranged so as everything ought to be your way . |
| 3 | They are nice people : they believe that everything ought to be fair , that is to say that virtue is rewarded and villainy punished . |
| 4 | After an absence of so many years , this kissing among men seems an odd thing , but one ought to be thankful for small mercies : at least it is only two kisses and not three , as is the Russian custom . |
| 5 | It is possible to make some observations of the law relating to obscenity and indecency which indicate that , while accepting that one ought to be guided by the rule of law in censorship matters , one would be better advised to come to decisions without reference to this or that piece of obscenity or indecency legislation . |
| 6 | Going out to tea always seemed to her a waste of time , but to refuse might have seemed churlish , and she knew that in the country one ought to be friends with one 's neighbours . |
| 7 | We put it in the grammatically imperative mood in order to show up starkly its difference from factual statements , but also to leave room to interpret it according to circumstances as the strong ‘ One ought to be aware of this ’ , or as ‘ It is a good thing to be aware of this ’ , or in diminishing degrees , as the prospect of something coming within one 's range of choice becomes remote , ‘ Other things being equal , it is better to be aware of it than not ’ . |
| 8 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |
| 9 | Others , however , would rather maintain that these charges have sometimes been exaggerated , but that they do highlight genuine dangers of which one ought to be aware in reading Barth : dangers which lie partly in what he actually says , but also partly in what he can very easily be taken to be saying when his real meaning is subtly but significantly different . |
| 10 | My Lords , this appeal exemplifies the conflict between two principles , one that no one ought to be compelled to incriminate himself and the other that justice should be done between the parties to an action . |
| 11 | The less one is who one thinks one ought to be , the more one is who one is . |
| 12 | Suppose one went to Boston and found one ought to be in Chicago ? |
| 13 | This was an insensitive remark , and Ayling shamed her by suggesting that the things one ought to be able to do were often impossible . |
| 14 | If one can go north , one can turn around and head south ; equally , if one can go forward in imaginary time , one ought to be able to turn round and go backward . |
| 15 | Even if it is arguable for the purposes of theological discussion that the mode of being in which contemplative knowledge of God becomes a reality is superior to the demands of the active life , Augustine recognised that in the fallen world the two were indissolubly linked and complementary : for no one ought to be so leisured as to take no thought in that leisure for the interest of his neighbour , nor so active as to feel no need for the contemplation of God . |
| 16 | Extraordinary colouring , extraordinary , now 's the time one ought to be out and about , seeing that sort of thing . |
| 17 | Michael Lawrence says that the Government accepts there is a problem and that ideally something ought to be done about it : ‘ It 's now just a question of what can be afforded ’ . |
| 18 | Where there was reluctance — as in Britain — middle-class pressure had to be brought to bear in order to convince the politicians that something ought to be done . |
| 19 | And Dyson felt that something ought to be said . |
| 20 | The acoustics in the hall are not good and it was agreed that something ought to be done to improve this . |
| 21 | But the end of something ought to be the start of something else , and I ca n't yet feel what 's meant to be beginning . |
| 22 | Now , if ever , between hymn and prayer , something ought to be said about Hilary . |
| 23 | The acoustics in the hall are not good and it was agreed that something ought to be done to improve this . |
| 24 | They were the products of the free institutions of which Britons are bidden to think with pride … one duty was clear : even the vaguest altruist felt that something ought to be done about it . |
| 25 | The memorial appeared 50 years later through the hard work of a local newspaper reporter who thought something ought to be done . |
| 26 | just see them all getting away with it and they makes me thing something ought to be done , which has the people that lose out or the people who go in there very politely , fill out their claim |
| 27 | That one must of been the day the boys come up from school |
| 28 | Everything used to be really difficult to get hold of . ’ |
| 29 | So everything used to be weighed |
| 30 | One used to be able to listen to light classical music on Radio 2 on a Sunday morning , but that has disappeared , and Radio 4 's topsy-turvy ‘ streamlining ’ has wrecked the listening habits of years . |