Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right so there 's a thought that somehow democracy ought to be self-justifying erm the well I mean quite a long way actually two types of justification of democracy , instrumental and erm Mill is defending democracy surely instrumentally and we might want to say democracy has its justification of freedom and equality . |
| 2 | The further question of where now theology ought to be going was one he was less equipped to tackle . |
| 3 | So really people ought to be trained to take their engine oil out |
| 4 | ‘ For to obviate the inconveniencies that might result from the too frequent communication with the out pupils the Professor will demonstrate to the latter only what might be useful to them as Surgeons and Physicians to the human body , such as the most important demonstrations of comparative anatomy as likewise experiences [ experiments ] on several animals , which could not be attempted on Man without imminent danger , and lastly , a comparison between epidemical and epizootic diseases — therefore the out pupils ought to be considered by the Society [ College ] as a separate Class : the consideration of which ought not to have any influence as to the situation of the establishments . |
| 5 | Taking your point that chemistry at university is a privileged subject in so far as that the equipment available is more sophisticated , more expense , more accurate , possibly , surely universities ought to be doing something to help kids in schools ? |
| 6 | The history of administrative ideas and management theory is a history of prescriptive statements about how organizations ought to be structured to achieve their goals ( Abrahamsson 1977 ) . |
| 7 | She had read that to be an artist it was necessary to have known personal suffering , and , while she was rather sceptical of this idea , if there was any truth in it , then Faye ought to be on her way to the status of a Michelangelo . |
| 8 | The advantage of having trekked with a World Challenge Expedition is that another time she will know how things ought to be planned . |
| 9 | Changed circumstances also mattered to Waters ( 1979 : 47 ) who described outstanding schools as places which were run by heads " with flair , wisdom , energy and that sense of knowing how things ought to be " but who emphasized , too , that these qualities needed to be partnered with an ability in organization and management in a wide variety of fields . |
| 10 | The increasing importance of a senior participant 's ability in management and organization led to the conversion of traditional heads from being people of experience and goodwill ( and who had a sense of how things ought to be ) into planners and implementers . |
| 11 | If we believe that words can be ‘ reclaimed ’ , then woman ought to be at the top of the list . |
| 12 | One of the best known approaches as to how decisions ought to be made is that of Simon , who developed the behaviour alternative model . |
| 13 | These competing perspectives on the range of viable solutions will flow also from the fact that theories normally carry with them implicit and explicit notions of how society ought to be structured . |
| 14 | But even a new house , as freshly conceived as the Dairy at Blaise , in response to a fiction of how life ought to be , has a wayward personality of its own , produced by the subconscious , both individual and collective , of its makers . |
| 15 | This wider meaning comprehends the normative attitudes held by the people towards government , their conception of how power ought to be regulated , of what it is proper to do and not to do . |
| 16 | For that 's the place where traitors ought to be . |
| 17 | The reason why changes ought to be made in language is to bring it into line with the way things really are . |
| 18 | Indeed , to speak of interests at all provokes confusion , for it suggests that these interests pre-exist the determination of the question where liabilities ought to be created according to distributive principles . |
| 19 | Therefore providers ought to be able to agree to contracts for these services at a lower price . |