Example sentences of "[pron] ought to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You think that because I can sometimes see what 's trivial and what 's important in art I ought to be more virtuous . |
| 2 | I guess I ought to be more honest about this because my daughter wrote me after her mother 's funeral and said she 'd guessed what had happened anyway . |
| 3 | I ought to be there . |
| 4 | I ought to be home in three days and I 've made a deal with Henry . |
| 5 | David Crystal has produced a work which ought to be particularly well suited to our purpose . |
| 6 | We further conclude that the creation of teams of interested teachers , parent volunteers and responsible children is good practice which ought to be more widely adopted . |
| 7 | It merely indicates that it is the duty of ‘ every person responsible for public records … to make arrangements for the selection of those records which ought to be permanently preserved and for their safe-keeping ’ . |
| 8 | She ought to be here . ’ |
| 9 | She ought to be here . ’ |
| 10 | Bet she wan na , she ought to be well insured . |
| 11 | Jake had been hurling these same insults at her now for years , and by now she ought to be totally immune to them . |
| 12 | There is a subspecies called philosophers of science who ought to be better equipped . |
| 13 | If you devote several years of your life to a subject , you ought to be reasonably sure that you 'll enjoy it . |
| 14 | Recorder Louis Lawton told him : ‘ You ought to be bitterly ashamed of yourself . |
| 15 | I have no right and you have been very generous , Fred , Uncle Steve and the boys and Gertie ca n't understand why you did n't come here with us , Gert only said this morning that you ought to be here , your place is with us , but do n't think I am not grateful . |
| 16 | You ought to be bloody pleased , this weather . ’ |
| 17 | Although you may be perfectly entitled to take others to task and even issue a number of ultimatums , you ought to be more concerned with plans designed to give you the kind of personal or professional recognition you seek and deserve . |
| 18 | You ought to be very careful with living on your own Don you could break an ankle and you 'd be in real serious trouble |
| 19 | However , with polo you ought to be all right . |
| 20 | Even if it is arguable for the purposes of theological discussion that the mode of being in which contemplative knowledge of God becomes a reality is superior to the demands of the active life , Augustine recognised that in the fallen world the two were indissolubly linked and complementary : for no one ought to be so leisured as to take no thought in that leisure for the interest of his neighbour , nor so active as to feel no need for the contemplation of God . |
| 21 | He is er , strongly er , suggesting that we ought to be rather more pro-active than we either are , or than anybody is suggesting that we ought to be in the paper at number seventeen . |
| 22 | Most educated people in this country now believe , in a vague sort of way , that we ought to be less sexually prudish than the Victorians are alleged to have been , and that sexual morality should be guarded rather by example and exhortation than by penal sanctions . |
| 23 | We ought to be more concerned as to exactly how they came into being . |
| 24 | But I do n't think we ought to be too dismayed about one letter like this . |
| 25 | But there 's no , it seems to me there 's no fundamental change in Government policy and if you are only bringing forward er a change in policy er to this alteration on the basis that er there was some extra P P G guidance we would n't just be dealing with countryside policy here we would be dealing with a policy about telecommunications , wind farms , a whole raft of things er which which we ought to be really dealing with . |
| 26 | That is something of which we ought to be extremely wary . |
| 27 | It was said that there ought to be more sharing and swapping , in the name of change , equality and the exploration of the self . |
| 28 | But this is something else again , having socialist ideas is one thing , betraying your country another , people who do that have no rights at all , that 's my opinion , they ought to be just put up against a wall and shot . |
| 29 | well I du n no , they ought to be even more now that fighting , er supposedly fighting for business |
| 30 | We would have expected them at the beginning , and as we are still at the beginning , they ought to be here . |