Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] to be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If so , this November 's mayoral election ought to be timely .
2 That Elections of Members of Parliament ought to be free .
3 Figure 1.1 on page 4 drew attention to six qualities which the whole of the curriculum ought to be encouraging .
4 To break the circle someone has to decide , by making a value-judgment , whether or not any particular function ought to be subject to public law .
5 Some will say that , when there is doubt whether an apparent refusal of consent is valid in circumstances of urgent necessity , the decision of a doctor acting in good faith ought to be conclusive .
6 The citizen ought to be able to find the basic law , the principal law , in statutory form .
7 Classification of functions fell into disrepute because the classifications were often applied mechanically and without it being asked whether judicial review ought to be available , or whether the rules of natural justice ought to apply as a matter of fairness or policy .
8 Psychologism , through its influence in marriage guidance and churches , and also through its effects in the world of work — in personnel management , for example — is able to link the two spheres in a way religion used to be able to do but can not do any longer .
9 Winter injection used to be popular , until experts found that wet soil often did n't absorb the slurry properly and increased the danger of run-off .
10 Did , did the racecourse used to be busy ?
11 I think the hon. Lady ought to be clear about what she means by assistance .
12 The second supposition is ideological , that ownership ought to be individual .
13 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 .
14 Again he follows Aristotle in believing that each child ought to be male and that a female is the result of misadventure .
15 taking out loans and borrowing and I do n't think that this County Council ought to be defensive in the slightest about having a tool such as borrowing available to us in terms of financial management .
16 The colour range used to be wide , as in other Scottish cattle , including red-and-white , solid red , dun , dun-and-white , yellow , solid black , blue , grey , grey-and-white , brown-and-white , brindle , white with blue or black on the neck , black riggit ( finchback ) , brockle-faced and even belted .
17 Their influence used to be great .
18 Apparently his grandmothers Budgie used to be able to say ‘ Top of the morning to you ! …
19 Gosstandard used to be responsible for approving ( for a price ) all technology imported for use in the Soviet Union .
20 It seems to me that formulation of the precise grounds upon which overpayments of tax ought to be recoverable and of any exceptions to the right of recovery , may involve nice considerations of policy which are properly the province of Parliament and are not suitable for consideration by the courts .
21 Neither group ought to be disappointed by what they hear .
22 For Marxist or Hegelian thought , such an age-old contradiction ought to be resolvable through the operations of dialectical logic .
23 That it would be out of place to use scientific discoveries in the course of the investigation ought to be clear : if science is optional , it would be improper to use results deriving from that science in justifying it ; and , if scientific results are held , tentatively , at arm 's length anyway , they are not certain beliefs that would be appropriate for philosophical argument .
24 The whole place ought to be full of rabbits .
25 Commercial contractual relations had become valuable rights which could be regarded as entitled to at least some of the protection given by the law to property and while it was argued that the plaintiff ought to be satisfied with his action for breach of contract against the party induced , the latter might be incapable of paying all the damages .
26 The Purchaser ought to be entitled to rely on the details of the Business which the Vendor has volunteered .
27 The same kind of accident used to be common with gliders , and the pilots could never remember anything after the first bounce .
28 The place used to be lousy with them .
29 The industry in this town used to be great but everything 's shutting .
30 A good keeper ought to be able to become a better slip fieldsman than most of those NZ had there early in the international season .
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