Example sentences of "woman ought " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I share their prejudices and feel somewhere deep in my psyche that a woman ought to care about a baby she produces , even if she produces it under highly unnatural conditions ? |
| 2 | This is exemplified by another argument against surrogacy , namely that since there are some risks attached to pregnancy , no woman ought to be asked to undertake pregnancy for another , in order to earn money . |
| 3 | If we believe that words can be ‘ reclaimed ’ , then woman ought to be at the top of the list . |
| 4 | Grant Allen , writer and biologist , who also stressed the importance of women 's sexual emancipation in a novel , The Woman Who Did ( 1895 ) , took up a similar cry : ‘ A woman ought to be ashamed to say she has no desire to become a wife and mother ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ If you will excuse me , ’ she said politely — no single woman ought to be talking alone with a man at nearly midnight — ‘ I will collect a new candle from the kitchen and retire again . ’ |
| 6 | The woman ought not to lie about these things , or how will men ever learn ? |
| 7 | I 've got some quotes here that I 've taken from the book which shows not only how Dickens thought women ought to behave , but how the readers , since he was writing for a public market , the readers too thought the ideal woman ought to behave . |
| 8 | She begins by recalling a remark made to her a long time ago by Larkin , about difficulties encountered in his private life — a remark which consisted of a joke to do with ‘ the impossibility of relations between men and women ’ , followed by the notion that ‘ women ought really to marry each other ’ , followed by ‘ but that would be wrong , would n't it ? ’ |
| 9 | I believe women ought to be ordained to the priesthood . |
| 10 | ‘ I do not know ’ she said ‘ whether women ought to shoot unicorns . |
| 11 | Especially in the area of gender , wishful thinking about how women ought to look and act can easily acquire prescriptive force , with the consequence that real women try to live up to the ideal . |
| 12 | The memorandum ( endorsed by the National Joint Advisory Council representing the British Employers ' Confederation , the TUC , and the nationalized industries ) identified as the essential problem the provision of a place in society for the ever-growing proportion of elderly persons and suggested that : ‘ Age sixty-five for men and sixty for women ought no longer to be regarded as ‘ normal retiring age ’ ' . |
| 13 | If we 're , if we 're agreeing that women ought to be able to make informed choices , there 's so much information it 's actually very hard to make a , particularly if your |
| 14 | To say , as Keith Pringle does , ‘ lesbian women ought statistically to represent the safest carers ’ , from whatever point of view , only inflames and alienates . |
| 15 | Where all women ought to be . ’ |
| 16 | As a general rule , women ought to drink about two thirds of the safe levels for men , mainly because of their lower average body weight . |
| 17 | I 've got some quotes here that I 've taken from the book which shows not only how Dickens thought women ought to behave , but how the readers , since he was writing for a public market , the readers too thought the ideal woman ought to behave . |