Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Elections of Members of Parliament ought to be free . |
| 2 | There was a little discussion about the length of time a perfectly made cup of tea ought to be brewed and a little anguish because there was no milk to offer the guests . |
| 3 | Magnetic materials made up of nanocrystals ought to be better because their magnetism can be switched on and off more swiftly . |
| 4 | In January 1928 he was invited back to speak at the Cambridge Union , on the motion that the Church of England ought to be disestablished . |
| 5 | Finch , however , denounced the 1300 perambulation as ‘ false and erroneous ’ , and coerced the Grand Jury and Forest officers into returning a verdict ‘ that the Meetes and Boundes of the Forrest of Deane ought to be according to the Perambulations made ’ in 1228 and 1282 . |
| 6 | Finally , it suggested that interconnection with the Republic of Ireland ought to be re-eastablished . |
| 7 | Now this may sound like fatuous bluster but suspicion of businessmen ought to be understandable in an era of commerce made squalid by stock-market muggings on a grand scale . |
| 8 | It is smaller than Sardinia ( just 22 acres , or roughly 13 football pitches , against Sardinia 's 16,000 square miles , or six million pitches ) which for purposes of containment ought to be counted pure gain . |
| 9 | What we can not countenance though sir , is any widening o of the route that they seek to go down , to have these sites included in the greenbelt , and that 's to say to entertain the argument that the whole of Skelton ought to be washed-over . |
| 10 | Now the taxation of the plaintiff 's bill of costs , came before master er and er in his taxation , it seems , and I 'm , I think I 'm right in saying it , it seems that erm there is no substantial dispute as to the particular items in the various bills of costs with which he was concerned , it maybe that if there were a discrepancy , he has , he dealt with it and nothing has been said before me today , er to suggest that the figures appearing in the bill of costs ought to be varied and accordingly I have not er have to consider the detail items in the bill of costs , the only issue I did n't decide is whether master was correct in disallowing interest for the period that he did , er Mr for the plaintiff says that he was wrong er that there was no good reason for disallowing him any interest and that accordingly I on this appeal should erm discharge or reverse that part of taxing order as disallowed interest . |
| 11 | Whether these types of initiative ought to be included within the development theme is arguable , but labour-supply considerations may be seen as constraining urban output . |
| 12 | It seems to me that formulation of the precise grounds upon which overpayments of tax ought to be recoverable and of any exceptions to the right of recovery , may involve nice considerations of policy which are properly the province of Parliament and are not suitable for consideration by the courts . |
| 13 | Whereas the test designers suggest that a teacher without specialist knowledge might give the test as a screening device to identify the existence of articulation problems , the analysis of the nature of the errors and the appropriate forms of intervention ought to be left for an expert in phonological analysis . |
| 14 | In his speech er in that debate the honourable member for Edinburgh central and the bench er in his place today , er welcomed the government 's acceptance of Sir Thomas ' and the select committee 's recommendation and agreed er that it was in his words , important that the statutory duty of auditors ought to be clear so that er to use his colourful phrase , if whistles are to be blown they 're to be blown without doubt . |
| 15 | erm I think that some sort of offer ought to be made . |
| 16 | Sir : Increasing the recycling of plastics ought to be near the top of Britain 's environmental priorities , as your article ‘ The search to escape a plastic nightmare ’ ( 27 September ) suggests . |
| 17 | The people of Birmingham ought to be allowed to vote on this all-important issue . |
| 18 | Because we knew the speeds you know , and er the working of the machinery , the tools and equipment that were necessary to do the jobs , the , the application of er instrumentation you know , er what kind of materials ought to be used , er and , and we went into all that you know , in , in regard to setting up new times . |
| 19 | The adapter , Andy de la Tour , used to be one of the unfunniest comedians on the alternative cabaret circuit , a chap with a black hole where his sense of humour ought to be . |
| 20 | Sartre produces a persuasive formulation of the relation of the individual to the determining historical circumstance through his concepts of praxis and the practico-inert ; it is also obvious to him how the larger question of History ought to be solved . |
| 21 | Practical guidelines on the way in which an allegation of misconduct ought to be handled are available in the ACAS Code of Practice on disciplinary and other employment procedures , and in the handbook Discipline at Work . |
| 22 | Colonel John Custis of Williamsburg , a wealthy Virginian planter , was also advised by Collinson to purchase a copy of the Dictionary , a ‘ work of the greatest use ’ and one which ‘ no lover of gardening ought to be without ’ . |
| 23 | In this paper , I have argued that , contrary to the thinking of some of the major representatives of the tradition which distinguishes the public world from the private one , the notion of autonomy ought to be extended to the private sphere . |
| 24 | Damages for the loss of dependency ought to be such that she will have available to her to spend each year , free of tax , a sum equal to the amount of the dependency . |
| 25 | Cheerful , too , as a place of worship ought to be . |
| 26 | the hon. Member for Hemsworth ought to be more careful in his support for Boycott , or he will fall out with many of his own right hon. and hon. Friends . |
| 27 | ‘ It could find Floridia , so somewhere important like Blackbury ought to be no trouble . ’ |
| 28 | Working with networks ought to be a fundamental social work skill capable of being exercised almost regardless of organizational characteristics . |
| 29 | I 'm subbing Neil but that 's out of money which he gives me and which really in theory ought to be for my own , own use you know for fun but I get housing benefit for him , from the council . |
| 30 | Those who have charge of young people in choirs ought to be aware of the provisions of The Children Act ( 1989 ) . |