Example sentences of "[noun sg] that they [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They can get stuck by this fear that they ought to be planning for the future . |
| 2 | The belated realization that these things are no longer so leads to the embittered and baffled reaction that they ought to be so . |
| 3 | And secondly , I mean obviously parents are more worried if they feel that their child is not doing as well as somebody else 's child , and we 're back to this question of expectation again — where did they get the expectation that this other child is , as it were , some sort of norm that they ought to be living up to , and parents should talk to teachers and to other people who know their child and have got experience of their child as against other children to find out really whether their worries are truly grounded , or whether they are just groundless . |
| 4 | And secondly , I mean obviously parents are more worried if they feel that their child is not doing as well as somebody else 's child , and we 're back to this question of expectation again — where did they get the expectation that this other child is , as it were , some sort of norm that they ought to be living up to , and parents should talk to teachers and to other people who know their child and have got experience of their child as against other children to find out really whether their worries are truly grounded , or whether they are just groundless . |
| 5 | In England the Lords of Trade certainly had no money to spend on the colonies ; and would have been quite as surprised as any earlier generations at a suggestion that they ought to be spending money on them . |