Example sentences of "[noun] who ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such is my concern for the liberty of the subject that I am prepared to allow a contemnor who ought to be punished for contempt to go unpunished ; and that is so , notwithstanding that Parliament envisages that I could consider imposing a just punishment . ’ |
| 2 | And what use is it to provide more and more high-performance cultural facilities ( an unpleasing phrase ) if the artists who ought to be benefiting from them are lacking ? |
| 3 | From opposite ends of England the academics said that this was a born teacher who ought to be in teaching as soon as possible . |
| 4 | Yes , you 're comparative performances as investigators will , well even that should n't differ all that much because those that have got Sarah available to them those are the teams who ought to be capable of concentrating more on their stage two work , should n't they ? |
| 5 | This was a very trying time for me , and the people who ought to be offering support were offering only insults . |
| 6 | ‘ As far as I could judge , he thought me an incompetent idiot who ought to be minding his own business . |
| 7 | And it 's a very different matter if you can start tracing sexual spider 's webs that link fabulous-looking women with men who ought to be unrelated : secretaries of state on the one hand and ( say ) drug-dealers , gun-runners , con-men , terrorists or Russian spies on the other . |
| 8 | There is a subspecies called philosophers of science who ought to be better equipped . |