Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appeals can be made on several grounds , for example , that permission ought to be granted , that permission has been granted and that no permission is required . |
| 2 | Any theological reflection on human work and social praxis ought to be rooted in this fundamental affirmation . |
| 3 | This condition ought to be seen by all to be quite ridiculous and unacceptable , but it is all too common . |
| 4 | First , there is a safe harbour which is typically available for firms contemplating merger , and it is unclear why a more generous harbour ought to be offered to certain types of corporate activity , such as merger , than others , such as joint ventures ( see Brodley , 1990 ) . |
| 5 | I think the hon. Lady ought to be clear about what she means by assistance . |
| 6 | They reflected a concept that had been current for a number of years , that experiments in planning free zones ought to be devised ( Banham et al . , |
| 7 | However , in general questions about control in management , some reference ought to be made to the increasing number of mathematical and other techniques which are now available to management in the execution of their planning and controlling activities . |
| 8 | Among the issues raised by this case were how the court was to go about deciding exactly what powers Parliament had intended to give to the GLC in relation to London Transport ; whether the GLC owed a duty to its ratepayers not to spend the rates on large subsidies for travellers ; whether the GLC was entitled to implement its cheap fares policy just because it had been a major issue in the recent GLC elections ; the extent to which central government ought to control local authority spending ; whether and to what extent public transport ought to be treated as a public service or , on the other hand , as a business which has to break even or make a profit . |
| 9 | All is not true , so not everything should be believed ; some things ought to be doubted . |
| 10 | He said that he thought all the scientific evidence ought to be agreed by both sides before the trial . " |
| 11 | Anyway , scientific evidence ought to be tested like any other evidence . " |
| 12 | The volume of data being created is continuing to explode at a rate seemingly far in excess of what a diminishing workforce ought to be able to produce . |
| 13 | ‘ These louts who , long ago , should have been smacked on the behind by their parents ’ excited Sir Marcus Lipton , who was something of a Parliamentary dove on these occasions , no less than Mr Gerald Nabarro who considered that ‘ a proper policy ought to be to ‘ whack the thugs ' ’ ’ . |
| 14 | I can not therefore deny that in this context a settled and preponderant public demand ought to be taken into account or that at a certain point it would have to prevail . |
| 15 | You might think that , that 's a book that social scientists ought to be primarily interested in . |
| 16 | That Jurors ought to be duely impannelled and returned and Jurors which passe upon men in tryalls for high Treason ought to be free holders . |
| 17 | Therefore , your main aim and concern this September ought to be to make amends and rebuild bridges . |
| 18 | ‘ East Coker ’ states ‘ old men ought to be explorers . ’ |
| 19 | Rather than reducing the level of risk taking in general , however , the effect of a requirement to obtain adequate information ought to be that the chances of directors discriminating between legitimate and illegitimate risks are improved . |
| 20 | How many people think this project ought to be stopped right now before it goes any further ? ’ |
| 21 | However , if the Revenue 's approach represents a new hardening of attitudes that will affect all small family companies , then this matter ought to be explored at a high level by the appropriate professional body or be taken through the courts by a consortium of practitioners . |
| 22 | It has been argued ( 12 ) that the use of arable land for livestock production is wasteful and this activity ought to be confined to the ‘ upland ’ areas . |
| 23 | There is an alternative to either of these courses which may be worth considering and that is that the Government should take the line that they have come to the conclusion that , while some restriction ought to be made in the infliction of the death penalty , the time has not yet come for its complete abolition . |
| 24 | It also made a number of exhortations , for example that Parliaments ought to be held frequently , elections ought to be free , and that free speech ought to be guaranteed . |
| 25 | This had been quite difficult and the Gnomes had scratched their heads a good deal , because , although people did not openly refer to it , everyone knew that Flame 's father was Fael-Inis and it had meant a lot of worrisome discussions as to whether this fact ought to be openly acknowledged , or whether it might be discourteous to draw attention to it . |
| 26 | ‘ I imagine so ; there was certainly a big turnover … perhaps the answer to that question ought to be that I do not know . |
| 27 | They accepted that the state had a duty to uphold morality and that private morality ought to be subject to the law as it affected society . |
| 28 | Again he follows Aristotle in believing that each child ought to be male and that a female is the result of misadventure . |
| 29 | Now that 's something that erm particularly that last point , that audit committees that are established in most efficient companies want to look at and I come back to the point that audit ought to be looked at as something that assists companies in efficiency as well as a mechanism for detecting fraud and yet the government does n't appear to be examining that . |
| 30 | The second supposition is ideological , that ownership ought to be individual . |