Example sentences of "[noun sg] ought to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If so , this November 's mayoral election ought to be timely . |
| 2 | That Elections of Members of Parliament ought to be free . |
| 3 | Figure 1.1 on page 4 drew attention to six qualities which the whole of the curriculum ought to be encouraging . |
| 4 | To break the circle someone has to decide , by making a value-judgment , whether or not any particular function ought to be subject to public law . |
| 5 | Some will say that , when there is doubt whether an apparent refusal of consent is valid in circumstances of urgent necessity , the decision of a doctor acting in good faith ought to be conclusive . |
| 6 | The citizen ought to be able to find the basic law , the principal law , in statutory form . |
| 7 | Classification of functions fell into disrepute because the classifications were often applied mechanically and without it being asked whether judicial review ought to be available , or whether the rules of natural justice ought to apply as a matter of fairness or policy . |
| 8 | I think the hon. Lady ought to be clear about what she means by assistance . |
| 9 | The second supposition is ideological , that ownership ought to be individual . |
| 10 | They accepted that the state had a duty to uphold morality and that private morality ought to be subject to the law as it affected society . |
| 11 | Again he follows Aristotle in believing that each child ought to be male and that a female is the result of misadventure . |
| 12 | taking out loans and borrowing and I do n't think that this County Council ought to be defensive in the slightest about having a tool such as borrowing available to us in terms of financial management . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Neither group ought to be disappointed by what they hear . |
| 15 | For Marxist or Hegelian thought , such an age-old contradiction ought to be resolvable through the operations of dialectical logic . |
| 16 | That it would be out of place to use scientific discoveries in the course of the investigation ought to be clear : if science is optional , it would be improper to use results deriving from that science in justifying it ; and , if scientific results are held , tentatively , at arm 's length anyway , they are not certain beliefs that would be appropriate for philosophical argument . |
| 17 | The whole place ought to be full of rabbits . |
| 18 | Commercial contractual relations had become valuable rights which could be regarded as entitled to at least some of the protection given by the law to property and while it was argued that the plaintiff ought to be satisfied with his action for breach of contract against the party induced , the latter might be incapable of paying all the damages . |
| 19 | The Purchaser ought to be entitled to rely on the details of the Business which the Vendor has volunteered . |
| 20 | A good keeper ought to be able to become a better slip fieldsman than most of those NZ had there early in the international season . |
| 21 | It should be marketed as a beer in its own right ; its alcohol content ought to be irrelevant , ’ says Karsten . |
| 22 | A firm such as Cheshire Restaurants operating within a limited geographical area and with a standardized menu ought to be able to derive two important advantages from adopting a centralized production process : |
| 23 | The volume of data being created is continuing to explode at a rate seemingly far in excess of what a diminishing workforce ought to be able to produce . |
| 24 | Anyway , the debate ought to be fun since what is certain is that American audiences , or at least distributors , have at least as much contempt as those here for independent features without bankable stars , car chases and expensive special effects . |
| 25 | New clause 3 touches on those issues because it proposes that , after consultation with the Audit Commission , the chief inspector ought to be able to ’ undertake studies in connection with his functions to improve efficiency , economy and effectiveness in the management of schools ’ . |
| 26 | The Chief Inspector ought to be able to study wider criteria . |
| 27 | Right so there 's a thought that somehow democracy ought to be self-justifying erm the well I mean quite a long way actually two types of justification of democracy , instrumental and erm Mill is defending democracy surely instrumentally and we might want to say democracy has its justification of freedom and equality . |
| 28 | Then he said the father ought to be ashamed of himself , using children who should be in school to make money , and that one day the police would find him . |
| 29 | Choose three or four and pick the ones that most need correcting , that is , the words the pupil ought to be able to spell at this stage ( see What goes wrong ? , page 6 ) . |
| 30 | Thus , faced with words with a medial e sound like : head bed thread or led health except the pupil ought to be clear that because there is a spelling choice , he is encouraged to use the dictionary to check which is the correct form for this context . |