Example sentences of "[pron] ought to [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought to be in bed , he thought , not worrying myself about such things . |
| 2 | ‘ You still have the kind of face which ought to be in the business of launching ships . ’ |
| 3 | She ought to be in a home ! |
| 4 | For example , at first interview Mrs Kitchener 's daughter expressed a great deal of antagonism to her mother , talked at great length about the difficulties she experienced in caring for her mother and said that she had often told her mother — and other people — that she ought to be in a Home . |
| 5 | Declaring that she was so beautiful that she ought to be in pictures , he gave her some of his manuscripts . |
| 6 | She ought to be in one or the other . |
| 7 | From opposite ends of England the academics said that this was a born teacher who ought to be in teaching as soon as possible . |
| 8 | ‘ You ought to be in the team , ’ she said . |
| 9 | So , he 's only had the same length of time doing this as you have so , by the end of the afternoon you ought to be in the position to print out a really neat final version of of of the letter . |
| 10 | She thought she knew what it would be like to find yourself in Boston when you ought to be in Chicago . |
| 11 | Suppose one went to Boston and found one ought to be in Chicago ? |
| 12 | Obviously only a small portion of these neutrinos will come in the Earth 's direction , but still we ought to be in the path of about 80 billion billion billion neutrinos per second . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There 's been quite a lot of discussion recently about how many parent governors or parent managers there ought to be in a , in the school system . |
| 15 | Perhaps they ought to be in the British Library . |
| 16 | ‘ But no one tells them they ought to be in this dead-end job and liking it . ’ |
| 17 | I think they ought to be in the wild . |
| 18 | Raven pushed at the bishop that he ought to be in an academic post and soon . |
| 19 | The reply brought Joseph Robinson an unease he could have done without : after all , he ought to be in the commanding position . |
| 20 | The latter may , for instance , feel that if he is regarded as competent to take on the task by himself he ought to be in charge of his own department and that the manager is intentionally blocking his promotion . |
| 21 | ‘ I kept saying that he ought to be in Shakespeare and not waste his time . ’ |
| 22 | For me , I think the last paragraph in my paper in the Speaker of the week before last [ ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ ] was pretty good ; but it ought to be in verse . |
| 23 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 24 | But that 's his ‘ sic ’ , not mine — I deny all responsibility — so by rights it ought to be in square brackets instead . |
| 25 | ‘ Looks like it ought to be in a museum , ’ Donna said with awe , fingering the inlaid panel on the top . |
| 26 | As an historian I know how valuable a commodity — and I mean valuable in terms of hard cash — it ought to be in these days when the whole of life , our own present as well as the past , seems to reach us pre-packaged in the form of interviews and telly-probe . |
| 27 | So , you either decide to start again , or you cut and paste , often laboriously , to move the range to where you think it ought to be in the first place . |
| 28 | That 's a factor of something like three hundred per cent than it , than it ought to be in terms of inflation and the County Treasurer 's budget of plus five per cent which is well in excess of two hundred per cent . |
| 29 | Theresa Billington Greig , who broke away from the Pankhursts ' suffragette organisation , the Women 's Social and Political Union , over the issue of militant action , was virtually alone in criticising suffragists and suffragettes who regarded the home ‘ as an exemplar of what ought to be in the political world ’ . |