Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any theological reflection on human work and social praxis ought to be rooted in this fundamental affirmation . |
| 2 | First , there is a safe harbour which is typically available for firms contemplating merger , and it is unclear why a more generous harbour ought to be offered to certain types of corporate activity , such as merger , than others , such as joint ventures ( see Brodley , 1990 ) . |
| 3 | I think the hon. Lady ought to be clear about what she means by assistance . |
| 4 | They reflected a concept that had been current for a number of years , that experiments in planning free zones ought to be devised ( Banham et al . , |
| 5 | Among the issues raised by this case were how the court was to go about deciding exactly what powers Parliament had intended to give to the GLC in relation to London Transport ; whether the GLC owed a duty to its ratepayers not to spend the rates on large subsidies for travellers ; whether the GLC was entitled to implement its cheap fares policy just because it had been a major issue in the recent GLC elections ; the extent to which central government ought to control local authority spending ; whether and to what extent public transport ought to be treated as a public service or , on the other hand , as a business which has to break even or make a profit . |
| 6 | He said that he thought all the scientific evidence ought to be agreed by both sides before the trial . " |
| 7 | Anyway , scientific evidence ought to be tested like any other evidence . " |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ These louts who , long ago , should have been smacked on the behind by their parents ’ excited Sir Marcus Lipton , who was something of a Parliamentary dove on these occasions , no less than Mr Gerald Nabarro who considered that ‘ a proper policy ought to be to ‘ whack the thugs ' ’ ’ . |
| 10 | I can not therefore deny that in this context a settled and preponderant public demand ought to be taken into account or that at a certain point it would have to prevail . |
| 11 | You might think that , that 's a book that social scientists ought to be primarily interested in . |
| 12 | That Jurors ought to be duely impannelled and returned and Jurors which passe upon men in tryalls for high Treason ought to be free holders . |
| 13 | ‘ East Coker ’ states ‘ old men ought to be explorers . ’ |
| 14 | Rather than reducing the level of risk taking in general , however , the effect of a requirement to obtain adequate information ought to be that the chances of directors discriminating between legitimate and illegitimate risks are improved . |
| 15 | It also made a number of exhortations , for example that Parliaments ought to be held frequently , elections ought to be free , and that free speech ought to be guaranteed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | that the price of limited liability ought to be the maximum possible disclosure of information regarding the company 's financial position , |
| 18 | Similarly , in the various schools of reform Judaism circumcision still occupies a central place , despite the objections raised by the nineteenth-century originators of the movement to the rite 's continuation on the grounds ( amongst others ) that there was no rite of initiation for daughters into the religion so the male ritual ought to be abandoned . |
| 19 | Each individual consciousness ought to be compared to a brain cell in a universal mind . ’ |
| 20 | As to the question of where the resources should come from , avoiding the easy ( albeit probably correct ) let-out of ‘ abolish capitalism ’ , I would say simply that the transfer of money to unpaid workers ought to be the next stage in the redistribution of wealth , taking precedence over ‘ breadwinners ’ pay claims , tax-cuts or ‘ family ’ benefit increases . |
| 21 | The project engineer to agree with the client what the liquidem liquidated damages ought to be . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | The Chief Inspector ought to be able to study wider criteria . |
| 24 | Now , when you find management — the representatives of enterprise and risk capital — standing up in public and saying that they have a responsibility to keep prices stable , or lower them , that individual prices ought to be reported on by a commission , and that profits ought to attract special tax penalties if they exceed a certain level , then it is a sign that either the millennium has arrived or else something is going very seriously wrong indeed . |
| 25 | For Marxist or Hegelian thought , such an age-old contradiction ought to be resolvable through the operations of dialectical logic . |
| 26 | Many others , however , agreed with the sole practitioner who felt that unlimited liability ought to be accepted as part of the ‘ burden and responsibility of being a member of a profession ’ . |
| 27 | The feeling of disquiet about the practices and methods of some headhunting firms in terms of ethics , reliability , quality of work and total professionalism is such that the possibility of setting up an official self-regulatory association ought to be investigated . |
| 28 | From the evidence presented above — and this is merely illustrative of the evidence available — it should be clear that corporate crime ought to be a prioritized concern because it is the more serious . |
| 29 | David Burt , as Macheath , is a convincing cock-of-the-walk , even if the ideal Macheath ought to be more debonair . |
| 30 | Laura was doubtful whether the little girl ought to be allowed to go out like that alone with an old man , and not a very scrupulous one at that , for a whole afternoon . |