Example sentences of "we ought " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ought to do more modern work at drama school , as well as the classics . |
| 2 | ‘ With so many of us we ought to set a rota for cooking . |
| 3 | For ‘ prodigies ’ ( ‘ Mr Binyon 's young prodigies ’ ) surely we ought to read ‘ protégés ’ ; and then it becomes possible to wonder whether the jocularity about bulldogs does n't mark a wistful or resentful sense that Binyon and Sturge Moore ( ‘ old Neptune ’ ) might have done more with their respective protégés than merely set them to sniff and snarl at each other 's heels ; to question whether the two senior writers could not have established themselves — at least for some purposes — as masters of ateliers in which the two young hopefuls might have enrolled as apprentices . |
| 4 | If we resent this ( as we should ) , we ought to realize that it is we who are to blame for it . |
| 5 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 6 | For we can not feel what we know we ought to feel — that ‘ the masses , are ‘ just folks ’ . |
| 7 | Dr Runcie acknowledged that ‘ wealth creation ’ was the necessary precondition for ‘ doing all the things we ought to do ’ but added that there was no automatic connection between wealth creation and a happy society . |
| 8 | ‘ We ought to be under no illusion that the success or otherwise of what is happening in Poland and Hungary will substantially rest upon the actions of the two governments , ’ Mr Major said . |
| 9 | So , we bang on about the play and the staging and the big themes , and , if there 's any space left , then , as the chairman of Critics ' Forum wearily intones , ‘ I suppose we ought to say something about the performances . ’ |
| 10 | We can apply the test to the technical and technological subjects , and not only those , but the professional subjects also ; and the boundary line will run now on this side , now on that ; but the things that it divides are different in kind , and only on one side of that line lies what we ought to allow to be education . |
| 11 | If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts . |
| 12 | I think we ought to start by definition . |
| 13 | We can take it down ; we ought to take it down really . |
| 14 | ‘ Now the evening 's drawing to a close , and I reckon we ought to take the opportunity of conveying to Jack here the heartiest good wishes of the Kingsmarkham and District Darts Club . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps we ought to go inside . ’ |
| 16 | Are we prepared to discipline ourselves to restrictions and regulations that we feel we ought to impose for our own good ? |
| 17 | And , beyond that , we ought to see that some of the latest European music is only ‘ fascistic ’ in ways that are almost the opposite of male triumpalism . |
| 18 | It played a very , very important part in David 's career , because it was for that film that he wrote ‘ Space Oddity'/ Most of the stuff on the film came from the Deram label but I thought we ought to have a very special piece of material — some new material — and something that would show how very fine and inventive a writer David was . |
| 19 | I think , therefore , that as Anglicans we ought to be affirming more confidently than we usually do the freedom this gives to the mind , the heart and the body to be an integrated whole . |
| 20 | She records that , when his Regt embarked for the Crimean campaign and fears were expressed for his safety , she took the hopeful view that ‘ so much prayer was made for him , we ought to believe that a special providence would be extended over him . |
| 21 | We are not so sensible as we ought to be of the Providence which hourly sustains us . |
| 22 | Because we 're mum 's star sign , we think we ought to win your star prize . |
| 23 | While non-evangelicals and atheists might agree that there have been historically specific benefits from Protestantism , and that we ought to preserve such benefits , the evangelical adds a more direct link with the belief that God will punish us if we deviate further from his commands . |
| 24 | The real world has long left behind the age when old so-and-so could decide ‘ I rather like this slogan ’ or ‘ My constituents think we ought to do such and such ’ without that ‘ feeling ’ being backed up by professional research and experience . |
| 25 | We ought not to admire them when they put up their fists and fight nor mock them when they are afraid and tell them they must be a man . |
| 26 | We are only two of us now and we ought to be closer . |
| 27 | We ought at the very least to have changed her name . |
| 28 | ‘ The thing is , ’ Jackie explained , ‘ none of us has much , so we ought to put what we have together in case one of us ever needs anything important . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't you think we ought to wait till we 're sure ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Maybe we ought to go now . |