Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] ought to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our most successful player at Peachtree was Eoghan O'Connell , a young Irishman who has a future which ought to be the equal of Claydon 's . |
| 2 | All the legends are clearly printed on the keytops in the same colours as the original , the only missing one is Break which ought to be on the Space bar but is n't . |
| 3 | We further conclude that the creation of teams of interested teachers , parent volunteers and responsible children is good practice which ought to be more widely adopted . |
| 4 | Further , the extension of this system might well reach the stage when directives are given from political headquarters as to the line of action which ought to be taken locally . |
| 5 | As a result , ‘ governmental assemblies , whose chief activities were of the kind which ought to be limited by law , became able to command whatever they pleased simply by calling their commands ‘ law ’ ' . |
| 6 | It means that the recession which ought to be ending is gathering pace . ’ |
| 7 | David Crystal has produced a work which ought to be particularly well suited to our purpose . |
| 8 | This , too , seemed to be a manoeuvre to keep open an issue which ought to be closed . |
| 9 | ‘ She said immigration was an issue which ought to be raised because it was going to affect not only employment and social service benefits , but also cause homelessness . |
| 10 | The Executive 's Lesbian and Gay Working Party made a number of points , primary of which was that a candidate 's family — if indeed they had one — was irrelevant to an election campaign which ought to be about the candidate 's political platform . |
| 11 | In creating the conservation plan the Trust 's initial purpose was not to create a special reserve for rare species , but rather a haven for the common things of Nature which ought to be on any farm — meadow and hedgerow flowers and grasses , butterflies , dragonflies , lizards , frogs , newts , hedgerows and owls . |
| 12 | A final point which ought to be considered is whether the doctor may be liable under section 2 in the case that the patient expressing the wish to die is mentally unfit . |
| 13 | And Alderson B. , in the same case , says , ‘ It is undoubtedly true that payment of a portion of a liquidated demand , in the same manner as the whole liquidated demand which ought to be paid , is payment only in part , because it is not one bargain , but two : viz. , payment of part , and an agreement without consideration to give up the residue . |
| 14 | Moreover , even at common law a lease which ought to be made by deed but is not will not completely fail of effect , if possession is taken and rent paid under it ; the tenant will be treated as tenant from year to year upon the terms of the lease so far as they are applicable to such a tenancy . |
| 15 | Afterwards , when he [ Chlothar ] had gladly received these titles from his older brother [ Childebert ] , he considered in his own kingdom what ought to be added there , and what further should be included , and he ordered clauses 84 to 63 [ for 93 ? ] to be fixed . |
| 16 | Edgar Snow , in a review of it , said , ‘ Here is a young man with a message which ought to be read by every Indian who hopes to see his country free . |
| 17 | And while I think we ought to do what we can , I think there 's a line which ought to be drawn , and I do honestly wonder whether twenty-one , it was eighteen last year , and I just wonder if perhaps we should erm try and switch some of these to mid-week , so that we 're not seeing it virtually every Saturday of the year . |
| 18 | They should identify themselves to a responsible official before entering , except in very rare cases where information which ought to be disclosed in the public interest could not otherwise be obtained . |
| 19 | For example , in Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026 Megaw LJ said : … it is appropriate that a covenant , restricting an employee from full freedom of taking other employment when he leaves his existing employment , should be included in the contract of employment where there is a real danger that the employee will in the course of that employment have access to and gain information about matters which could fairly be regarded as trade secrets ; and that applies even though the information may be carried in his head and even though ( perhaps , particularly though ) it may be extremely difficult for the employee himself , being an honest and scrupulous man , to realise that what he is passing on to his new employers is matter which ought to be treated as confidential to his old employers . |
| 20 | The argument advanced here is that insider dealing is the sort of conduct which ought to be criminal . |
| 21 | Probably an el well certainly an element which ought to be considered within the umbrella of the R P G but lets |
| 22 | Their use of subterfuge can be justified only to obtain material which ought to be published in the public interest and could not be obtained by other means . |
| 23 | ‘ You still have the kind of face which ought to be in the business of launching ships . ’ |
| 24 | The vast and highly mechanized modern industry of printing , which can be found in every town and city in the kingdom , has been dispersed during five hundred years from this one spot which ought to be holy ground to the industrialist as well as the Christian . |