Example sentences of "and we ought " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are only two of us now and we ought to be closer . |
| 2 | It was clever of humankind to invent science and art to supply the deficiencies of nature , and we ought to be proud . |
| 3 | It 's coming out of our taxes , that 's where , and we ought to put a stop to it . |
| 4 | It 's our money , that 's what you lot ought to remember , and we ought to have a say in … ’ ‘ … all your rubbishing talk about the future of mankind — it 's a load of crap — like this nonsense about the population explosion . |
| 5 | The point is of some importance since a number of rules of procedure are growing to be applicable to Cabinet Committees and we ought to know where there is a real , useful distinction or whether it is merely the pragmatical difference that some are serviced by the Cabinet Office and some are not . |
| 6 | 1 John 3:16 goes on to say , ‘ And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He ought to have some painkillers , ’ said Phil , ‘ and we ought to get some fluids into him . |
| 8 | After all , British taxpayers are picking up the £60 million bill and we ought to be told a lot more about why it happened and why so much damage was caused . |
| 9 | I mentioned earlier that American experience suggests that marketing costs can be expected to equal the actual building costs of the unit , and we ought to regard this as the minimum outlay for planning purposes . |
| 10 | ‘ We ought none of us to lose sight of the fact that human beings count far more than institutions or procedures or precedents , and we ought always to be willing , given justification , to sacrifice the latter to the former . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ That 's the way it used to be ’ , Murphy says , ‘ and we ought to start from that premise ’ . |
| 12 | Believe me , something very bad is close upon us and we ought to go away . " |
| 13 | But erm I th they are worried certainly , one or two of them are worried , but er some of this equipment is left on , and left on unnecessarily and we ought to be encouraging people to switch off what is n't |
| 14 | You know how you said we ought to stop thinking about gravity forces — between the Earth and the Shuttle — and we ought to think of curvature instead — the Shuttle following the curve of space . ’ |
| 15 | However , by-products are by-products , and we ought to concentrate on its intended use . |
| 16 | And er , later of course , he became the American Ambassador of Vienna , so Freud met him , but so , so , Bullett had a personal stake in this , but I must admit , er my own view was , was rather to admire Bullett for his stand , because it 's a rare politician who stands up and says look , you know , we 've been there , having made promises , we 've broken all of them , and we ought to resign , or you ought to resign . |
| 17 | She said they had an awfully difficult job and we ought to help them as much as we could . |
| 18 | I do not believe that it is , and we ought to look at it again . |
| 19 | There 's one paradox here that I think can confuse people and we ought to talk about a little bit and that is the libidinal aspect . |
| 20 | The ladies concerned I think were very pleased er , erm , I do I think it 's a very good idea , erm , to give a wife 's medal and er , with all the medals , and we ought to provide money for them the amount of waiting about they have to do |
| 21 | erm and bearing in mind Mr 's comments about er could he have thought we translated into rather more layman 's language and say well the capacity of the roads do actually deliver and extract people from Gatwick mathematical modelling is pretty suspect stuff but erm but at least it would er if that is true if it is not capable of actually er sensibly erm er allowing arrivals and departures er onto our road network without causing I think all they 're doing is pushing the problem onto us er and we ought |
| 22 | Well they can Erm so e e and and we ought to provision probably for a thousand . |
| 23 | And I think they have a tremendous contribution to make , and I think what we ought to be doing with er people who retire , it 's not to say the end of their working life , and therefore they 're on the scrap heap , but that it 's a new stage in life and we ought to honour them and respect them and I think , give them some er affirm where they 're at , and use them much more as the guardians of wisdom and the guardians of the stories of the community , and use them in that sort of way . |
| 24 | Syria has a very significant role now to play and we ought not to be seeking ways of annoying them . |
| 25 | I did make the point that Mr Maxwell 's company wants co-operation on the eastern edge of the City , vis-á-vis their football stadium , and we ought to have some co-operation on the western edge of the City where all these houses are boarded up and empty , bought at double the market value , and I made that point publicly . |