Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He quoted Bruner : ‘ A curriculum ought to be built around great issues , principles and values that a society deems worthy of the continued concern of its members . ’ |
| 2 | For a start , a lectern ought to be the right height for each speaker . |
| 3 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , thumping the car down into second to slow up at the traffic lights , ‘ a journalist ought to be specializing by the time he 's forty . |
| 4 | Just about the time when a nome ought to be taking it easy . |
| 5 | And er get and then strip this er at the side , cos a girl used to be at the front to strip all this here lace of these here pins . |
| 6 | During the discussions on the Marshall Plan , Norway proposed in July 1947 that a committee ought to be established to consider possibilities of economic cooperation . |
| 7 | A widower 's pension as a right used to be very rare in the public sector , although the civil service has now introduced one . |
| 8 | I have recently moved , with two children , two cats and an apparently treacherous abyss where a husband ought to be . |
| 9 | But perhaps a distinction ought to be taken here . |
| 10 | Of primary interest to Anthony was whether , and if so how , a distinction ought to be drawn between accounting theories , standards and practices for business and non-business organizations . |
| 11 | There is the further consideration that if after a Jury has deliberately decided that a person ought to be put to death , the Home Secretary should nevertheless find it his duty to recommend clemency , there would appear to be a conflict between the Crown and the Jury . |
| 12 | ‘ In respect of all the applicants , a declaration that in carrying out his announced policy under and in relation to section 61(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 in respect of persons serving sentences of life imprisonment imposed in the discretion of the trial judge , the Secretary of State for the Home Department , in determining for how long such a person ought to be detained for punitive purposes should fix the date of the first review by the local review committee and the Parole Board strictly in accordance with a period of detention ( that is to say , the notional determinate sentence less one-third remission ) recommended by the judiciary as necessary to meet the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 13 | ‘ the Secretary of State for the Home Department , in determining for how long … a person ought to be detained for punitive purposes , should fix the date of the first review by the local review committee and the Parole Board strictly in accordance with a period of detention … recommended by the judiciary as necessary to meet the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 14 | They used to These they used to be a round used to be round you know and not very used to hit them as you hit them with a stick you see , they used to wheel wheel round and round . |
| 15 | Grant Allen , writer and biologist , who also stressed the importance of women 's sexual emancipation in a novel , The Woman Who Did ( 1895 ) , took up a similar cry : ‘ A woman ought to be ashamed to say she has no desire to become a wife and mother ’ . |
| 16 | He 's got very he 's very sensitive cells in his nose because , cos a dog used to be a hunting dog , and goes back to being a wolf , they used to track their prey to eat so they 've still got that ability and we have n't , but a dog has , it can smell . |
| 17 | Bacon , as an advocate of really long-term investment , said the concentration on tobacco was ‘ to the untimely prejudice of the main business ’ , though it is not easy to see what he thought the main business of a plantation ought to be — his essay was full of sensible advice , much of it showing signs of the influence of the Virginia experience , but he never explained why people should want to support this sort of enterprise , unless it was to be part of a programme for sending people abroad to reduce overpopulation . |
| 18 | In no European country is the average citizen what the citizen in a democracy ought to be . ’ |
| 19 | The wide variety of scenarios should , we argue throughout this book , be treated as a series of options over which we as a society ought to be able to exercise some choice . |
| 20 | The thing was gleaming red , bigger than a tractor ought to be in her opinion , with bigger front wheels than expected , and smaller back . |
| 21 | Such a fellow ought to be entitled not " Doctor " but " Fool " . |
| 22 | If she knew a thing ought to be done she would really push hard . " |
| 23 | ‘ The son of a bitch ought to be impeached , ’ trumpeted McCarthy . |
| 24 | Besides , he was what they felt a doctor ought to be : a family man , with authority and good humour . |
| 25 | If the right surgeon is picked then a report ought to be available within six weeks or so . |
| 26 | This was abolished in 1972 and consequently the prosecution must now convince a more representative sample of the population that a publisher ought to be punished : a sample , moreover , which has a constitutional right to acquit irrespective of the letter of the law . |
| 27 | ‘ it came into being not as an essential part of a theory of the law of contract but more or less fortuitously as an expedient adopted in order to determine when persons injured by the breach of a promise ought to be allowed to bring an action ’ ( paragraph 18 of the 6th interim report of the Law Revision Committee , 1937 Cmd. 5449 ) |
| 28 | However , Mr Kagan having been invited , courtesy demanded that he should be received as a guest ought to be received . |
| 29 | IN THE dirt-poor villages of northern Thailand , the birth of a son used to be cause for celebration . |
| 30 | ‘ That is an inquisitorial power , which may work with great severity against third persons , and it seems to me to be obvious that such a section ought to be used with the greatest care , so as not unnecessarily to put in motion the machinery of justice when it is not wanted , or to put it in motion at a stage when it is not clear that it is wanted , and certainly not to put it in motion if unnecessary mischief is going to be done or hardship inflicted upon the third person who is called upon to appear and give information . |