Example sentences of "[noun sg] ought not to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … freedom of speech , and debates on proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament . |
| 2 | That the free dome of Speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Courte or place out of Parliament . |
| 3 | The counter-argument is that peaceful protest is one thing but violent protest crosses the boundaries of acceptability ; the value of physical integrity is such that violence and threats of violence ought not to be downgraded simply because their origins lie in some political protest . |
| 4 | Practice Richard Ashworth and ors v Berkeley-Walbrook Ltd ; CA ( Russell , Stuart-Smith LJJ ) ; 27 Sept 1989 As a general rule , where a counterclaim could properly be relied on as a set-off and where it arose out of the same subject matter as the claim , the counterclaiming defendant ought not to be required to give security for costs of that counterclaim unless there were exceptional circumstances . |
| 5 | One part of this judgment is a moral question raised by the officer as to whether the case is one about which action ought not to be taken . |
| 6 | ‘ I agree therefore with all your Lordships that the practice of exacting an undertaking in damages from the Crown as a condition of the grant of an interlocutory injunction in this type of law enforcement action ought not to be applied as a matter of course , as it should be in actions between subject and subject , in relator actions , and in actions by the Crown to enforce or to protect its proprietary or contractual rights . |
| 7 | Another question is whether the criminal law ought not to be wider in its application to activities which carry some risk of causing death than in other spheres . |
| 8 | Lord Roskill said that the niceties of civil law ought not to be imported into criminal law and that Dip Kaur was probably wrongly decided : she had appropriated . |
| 9 | So bleak are the prospects that I heard one media journalist muttering that the ITC ought not to be advertising the franchise at all . |
| 10 | Christopher of Hapsburg was clearly a man of delicate sensibilities , for he adds the comment , ‘ This process ought not to be directed against Christians . ’ |
| 11 | Tourism ought not to be a political matter . |
| 12 | There is no logical reason why a person ought not to be allowed to represent another in order to protect that other 's individual interests , but in such a case the main function of representation would probably be to provide finance for the action rather than organizational efficiency ; and in most cases there is no reason why one person should not provide another with finance to enable that other to bring an action in his or her own name . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the significance of this development ought not to be exaggerated . |
| 14 | Although the enterprise flourished , Elizabeth Malleson remained convinced that adult education ought not to be organized on a single-sex basis and , after failing to persuade the Men 's College to merge , converted the Women 's College to coeducation in 1874 . |
| 15 | But the Commission considers that the role played by music in the worship of parish and cathedral ought not to be confused . |
| 16 | But his course-work ought not to be irredeemably F. If the teacher is any good , he should be teaching his pupils all the time , so as to improve their historical understanding and their powers of accurate expression , to raise them from F to E and D and beyond . |
| 17 | Yet most would want to agree that such belief ought not to be contradictory in any way ( while bearing in mind the distinction between paradox and contradiction referred to at the end of Chapter 6 ) . |
| 18 | Symbolically , this arrangement may have much to commend it , but in practical terms its impact ought not to be over-estimated . |
| 19 | Ken obstinately and successfully resisted what in effect was a royal command , saying that ‘ A woman of ill repute ought not to be endured in the house of a clergyman , least of all that of a royal chaplain . ’ |
| 20 | The words ‘ reasonably satisfied ’ and ‘ substantially fewer ’ are selected deliberately ; for the alternative is so grave that the choice ought not to be made on only a narrow margin of evidence or probability . |
| 21 | A final warning ought not to be worded vaguely . |
| 22 | When it came up for its third reading on 21 June it was referred to a select committee who on 18 July reported that they were of the opinion that the bill ought not to be proceeded with . |
| 23 | I would argue , however , that love-making ought not to be treated as drawing only on the irrational side of a person 's nature . |
| 24 | The rallying point for the counter-attack against the deployment of sexuality ought not to be sex-desire but bodies and pleasures . ’ |
| 25 | During the 1620s the opinion had been expressed in Catholic circles that the Copernican system ought not to be condemned . |
| 26 | Celsus : I think the price of the office ought not to be paid unless the legatee has shown that the testator intended him to receive the price of the office again , even after payment had been made . |
| 27 | It has been the main argument of this book , however , that this objection ought not to be allowed to have the last word . |
| 28 | Purchasing ought not to be seen as mainly a question of routine paperwork . |