Example sentences of "we [vb mod] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ought to be forwarding names . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | It was clever of humankind to invent science and art to supply the deficiencies of nature , and we ought to be proud . |
| 4 | Be we 've got a lot that we ought to be proud of . |
| 5 | I think that this is something that we as Christians should be aware of and , if possible , we ought to be available to help keen ex-offenders reintegrate into society . |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose we ought to be grateful to Eleanor , ’ she said wryly . |
| 7 | I think we ought to be pleased at the money made available in the last 5 years for players . |
| 8 | We ought to be suspicious of claims to such a privileged interpretation . |
| 9 | This particularly applies in the case of professionals such as doctors and teachers who we ought to be able to trust . |
| 10 | ‘ Really , it just follows the principles of long-term contract accounting , but we ought to be able to do it better than SSAP 9 practitioners because , while they apply the theory to a handful of different contracts , we are applying it to 20m policies . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose I thought we ought to be able to help ourselves . ’ |
| 12 | We ought to be able to creep out easily when they 're all asleep , ’ he added and Fenella frowned at him , because they could not risk the giants guessing what they intended to do . |
| 13 | I feel we ought to be able to give you a better idea of the performance of different planning authorities . |
| 14 | " Unless it 's bolted on the inside we ought to be able to get in with these , " he said . |
| 15 | We ought to be able to cope , we feel bad about things , and so we come right down here , withdraw and ca n't cope . |
| 16 | Yeah well come on I mean we ought to be able to be a little bit more creative than that . |
| 17 | Erm , I 'm quite sure that we ought to be able to spend this money , and I think it 's it 's very sensible and it would help a great deal with the problems that we have . |
| 18 | Now I do n't think of us here and neither , certainly myself , I I would not claim to be any form of artist or expert but I think a lot of us can enjoy er getting our hands dabbling with paint erm paper mâché and other activities and in fact having that opportunity of ex enjoying those experiences that 's we ought to be able to offer to people in Cambridge and many peop children in schools they they do get opportunities but I think particularly amongst older people who 've never had that opportunity and I think you should be do so . |
| 19 | ‘ And , since Owen 's lectureship in the States is coming to an end and he 's intending to return permanently to Britain , between the two of us we ought to be able to manage the old girl ! ’ |
| 20 | Now if that is true then we ought to be able to re- forecast a year getting a reasonable assessment , okay , on what 's that going to do . |
| 21 | Government grant is distributed through a mechanism which is now called the standard spending assessment , an awful word , or phrase , but it is absolutely vital , and if you look at the standard spending assessment given to this county the government is saying we ought to be able to provide all the services for a total cost of eight hundred and seventy nine pounds per charge payer . |
| 22 | Perhaps we ought to be spending time developing camouflage , rather than advertising our presence . |
| 23 | Yeah , I think when it comes to bearing selection issues we ought to be clear in which direction we 're going in , now , it 's in our interests at the moment , as we 're unable to produce a larger series of airings in the U K or in Europe , to steer them away from those sort of design , but it seems also to be fairly clear that demands for packaging and compact design for steering gear , tend to be favouring the =mote , remote valve arrangement , therefore putting a considerable advantage |
| 24 | ‘ But I suppose we ought to be sensible and try to get some sleep , ’ she added reluctantly . |
| 25 | And then , you know , it , it , makes that sound strange , so just watch that , that , erm , what if we just pick it up around here , just for me to hear that and get that right , we ought to be fine , any . |
| 26 | I 'll get him I 'll get er Jane to give me a few dates and we 'll suit choose a suitable date and we 'll try all of the aspects everything about A L O work about the training , some of these we 've almost got solutions to ourselves we ought to be careful erm , if we can er draw up a proper agenda and discuss with him all of those issues |
| 27 | The private sector probably has even more flexibility to find imaginative ways of addressing those issues than the statutory services ; I think we ought to be prepared to give backing . |
| 28 | If they ca n't get sufficient profit out of supplying gas in the U K I think British Gas is on the verge of withdrawing from the gas market in the U K , and that a lot of jobs in this country and I think we ought to be aware of that and I think we ought to be campaigning to make sure that does n't happen . |
| 29 | But we ought to be aware of what values we 're holding in in various |
| 30 | erm I think we ought to be aware of the implications of what is happening to our population locally , regionally , nationally , globally . |