Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I ought to be able to work out the difference between them . |
| 2 | Perhaps she ought to be grateful that , out of Luke Hunter 's whole harem , she was at least one of the only two to be awarded an ‘ A ’ . |
| 3 | Erm I mean the if you , if you 're looking at erm at er at , at , at the costs on that erm I mean do you , do you think that er er that that 's a reasonable sum to , to actually put aside ea each month to provide that sort of protection or , or perhaps you ought to be thinking of , of looking at a higher figure . |
| 4 | Are there any problems that may be looming on the horizon that perhaps you ought to be addressing before they reach the door ? |
| 5 | Perhaps we ought to be a little more circumspect . |
| 6 | If the latter are regarded as territory to be defended , as rallying cries for confrontation with others , perhaps we ought to be asking whether they need to be so territorial ? |
| 7 | and er actually that is something perhaps we ought to be talking about . |
| 8 | Perhaps we ought to be spending time developing camouflage , rather than advertising our presence . |
| 9 | So everything used to be weighed |
| 10 | So we ought to be cheering as the big round numbers go by , leaving us healthy and whole . |
| 11 | Perhaps there ought to be an intelligence extradition agreement that all defectors are immediately put on the first aircraft back home . |
| 12 | Perhaps there ought to be a law like that , but there is n't at the moment . |
| 13 | Erm perhaps also say how urgent a lot of people but perhaps there ought to be sort of changes in planning law er changes indeed which erm this Council has sent messages to government about erm er previously . |
| 14 | Perhaps there used to be er erm a lot of hot cross er buns hanging down . |
| 15 | Perhaps there used to be and I lost it . |
| 16 | Yeah , that girl was saying , apparently there used to be glass in front of that there there used to be a glass cabinet attached to the wall there . |
| 17 | Perhaps they ought to be in the British Library . |
| 18 | Just that perhaps he ought to be respected ! ’ |
| 19 | She tried , saying : ‘ On the other hand , perhaps he ought to be told . |
| 20 | Does your husband accept that perhaps he ought to be looking after the baby alternate weeks , or is that not a solution to the problem ? |
| 21 | So it used to be a pond last century or |
| 22 | We start our school at eight o'clock , at nine o'clock it used to be prayers in the hall . |
| 23 | " If you do n't want me any longer I ought to be on my way to the hospital . |
| 24 | Nevertheless there ought to be some control somewhere and we 're getting back to what I think Richard said was the original idea of some kind of development control that is a popular thing in order to be allowed , people ought to make money for the various charities and so on , we ought to try and prevent er certain unjust practices going on and so on . |
| 25 | In general I shall recognize what is , not what ought to be ; but certainly I ought to be aware of what I am trying to do , why I want it , how to do it , whether it can be done . |
| 26 | Not what used to be a restaurant ? |
| 27 | So now I always and so I , I 'm thinking that it might be that , that I that erm maybe you know like I used to be anxious about something like that and I used to wake up and the dream used to happen , but now that I 've double checked that I know for sure that , that I 'm safe you know for the night it does n't happen any more by cutting off possibility |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Yeah I was really attracted to him but I just could not speak to him , it was awful , and like there used to be awful pauses and you 'd just go er right we 'd better get off with each other again because you ca n't bear the silence , it 's too uncomfortable so you used to , and then you go oh shit better get off with him again , it 's awful , he 's and he used to have such a , no personality at all . |
| 30 | But if they 're gon na go off they ought to be telling their parents where they 're going to go . |