Example sentences of "ought of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You are strictly to forbid them to deprive us of anything which ought of right to belong to us . |
| 2 | As the Earl of Leicester is now dead , in whose keeping the King was by reason of the disturbance in the realm , and now by the favour of God the King is snatched out of his hands and raised again to his former estate , whereby with the common consent of the realm the King has caused all things attempted by the Earl for the diminution of the King 's right , honour and royal dignity to be revoked ; and whereas the forests north of Trent , which before the war in the time of the Earl were preserved whole and uninjured , have been disafforested and destroyed to the King 's disherison , the King commands the said Roger to re-afforest all the forests in his bailiwick as they were … before the war ; and if any part thereof ought of right to be disafforested , the King is prepared to do full justice . |
| 3 | With a formal ought it seems possible to move from the anormativity of crude , fact-based positivism to a position short of the material ought of natural law . |
| 4 | The Crown ought of course to offer the statement to the defence if the statement is materially at variance with the maker 's evidence in court , but in this regard the trial judge has to rely on the Crown 's discretion and propriety . |
| 5 | ‘ … we are of course much gratified to hear of your safety and that your expedition is progressing so prosperously : at the same time the Letter although a long one does not tell us half the things we most wished to know : it does not say ought of your movements , when we may expect you home , how Mrs Gould is , whether your attendants have answered your expectations , how Mastr . |
| 6 | They ought of ate it . |