Example sentences of "[noun pl] ought to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody agrees that accounts ought to be useful . |
| 2 | Dragons ought to be big and green and clawed and exotic and firebreathing — big and green with long sharp … |
| 3 | Well I think that schools ought to be open . |
| 4 | But such a future , Eliot wrote , was not one in which he or his readers ought to be interested . |
| 5 | Pension funds ought to be immune from the performance of the company to which they relate , so that employees ' pensions are safeguarded even if the company is experiencing difficulties . |
| 6 | The pull 's fairly heavy , but someone with your shoulders ought to be able to manage . ’ |
| 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 | ( These two functions ought to be separate . |
| 9 | The Government 's proposition is simple : a person making a claim that may date back a great many years ought to be able to produce some evidence to back it up . |
| 10 | For the sake of the stability of the continent , ‘ bona fide ’ Europeans ought to be sure what they think . |
| 11 | Therefore providers ought to be able to agree to contracts for these services at a lower price . |
| 12 | A Department of Energy spokesman said : ‘ Hopefully this should not lead to power cuts in most cases because distributors ought to be able to get supplies from other area boards . ’ |
| 13 | So anyone who 's putting up a lot of their own money is untrustworthy and there should be limitation on how much people can stand , erm Mill actually goes into some figures at this point and rather quaintly says erm either fifty pounds or a hundred pounds ought to be adequate and I do n't know what that translates to now . |
| 14 | far from happy with the plan print room with the er er o o o and suggest that the businesses ought to be concerned about the way that their records are stored in their plan room . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Differences due to different methodologies or techniques ought to be identifiable ( e.g. remote sensing vs. direct measurements ) . |
| 17 | It was not disputed that teachers ought to be aware of the relation between educational success and failure and the language children being to school , or that some teachers need to give a good deal of time to the study of reading . |
| 18 | Experienced teachers ought to be able to deflect the naïve foundationalism that insists that literary works ‘ can only be understood ’ in such-and-such a cultural , social , or ideological context , by contextualizing the proponent 's own discourse . |
| 19 | And just as linguistics ought to be able to account for the structure and organization of as yet unspoken sentences , so poetics ought to be able to account for the rules governing as yet unwritten works of literature : ‘ Each work is therefore regarded only as the manifestation of an abstract and general structure , of which it is but one of the possible realizations . |
| 20 | Bishop , you and Hrolf and the physicians ought to be busy . |
| 21 | If the less frequently attacked male groin must be protected by a guard , then it follows that chest protectors ought to be compulsory for female contestants . |
| 22 | But although they might be better mounted , by normal standards , they were not so well horsed for rough riding as were the Borderers on their tough , sure-footed hill ponies ; on this terrain the fleeing men ought to be able to keep ahead . |
| 23 | Those who have charge of young people in choirs ought to be aware of the provisions of The Children Act ( 1989 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Similarly , lawyers can waste an enormous amount of time on irrelevant issues because it seems to them that certain trivial points ought to be important . |
| 26 | If this is accepted then odours per se , destroying as they do any feeling of well-being , the enjoyment of food and home , are prejudicial to health and adequate legal measures ought to be available to ensure their control . |
| 27 | These key strategic factors ought to be observable from a thorough analysis of market attractiveness and competitive strengths . |
| 28 | If we 're , if we 're agreeing that women ought to be able to make informed choices , there 's so much information it 's actually very hard to make a , particularly if your |
| 29 | If being nice to infants is a way of currying favour with females , the benefits ought to be discernible in the way males were treated once the observer females were let loose . |
| 30 | All the doctors are achieving with their uncontrollable itch to boss , patronise and distribute public money is to establish an idiotic certainty in our morally confused age that condoms ought to be free because they are something the government wants us to use . |