Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I ought to be able to work out the difference between them . |
| 2 | Perhaps she ought to be grateful that , out of Luke Hunter 's whole harem , she was at least one of the only two to be awarded an ‘ A ’ . |
| 3 | Erm I mean the if you , if you 're looking at erm at er at , at , at the costs on that erm I mean do you , do you think that er er that that 's a reasonable sum to , to actually put aside ea each month to provide that sort of protection or , or perhaps you ought to be thinking of , of looking at a higher figure . |
| 4 | Are there any problems that may be looming on the horizon that perhaps you ought to be addressing before they reach the door ? |
| 5 | Perhaps we ought to be a little more circumspect . |
| 6 | If the latter are regarded as territory to be defended , as rallying cries for confrontation with others , perhaps we ought to be asking whether they need to be so territorial ? |
| 7 | and er actually that is something perhaps we ought to be talking about . |
| 8 | Perhaps we ought to be spending time developing camouflage , rather than advertising our presence . |
| 9 | So we ought to be cheering as the big round numbers go by , leaving us healthy and whole . |
| 10 | Perhaps they ought to be in the British Library . |
| 11 | Just that perhaps he ought to be respected ! ’ |
| 12 | She tried , saying : ‘ On the other hand , perhaps he ought to be told . |
| 13 | Does your husband accept that perhaps he ought to be looking after the baby alternate weeks , or is that not a solution to the problem ? |
| 14 | " If you do n't want me any longer I ought to be on my way to the hospital . |
| 15 | Obviously only a small portion of these neutrinos will come in the Earth 's direction , but still we ought to be in the path of about 80 billion billion billion neutrinos per second . |
| 16 | So quite honestly you ought to be able to make a a bit of something out of it there 's |
| 17 | also we ought to be treating it , are you not actually having any active treatment at the moment are you ? |
| 18 | I think also we ought to be guarded about too much detailed discussion of travel distances , we are talking here at most of travel distances of between six and ten miles , in keeping with the policy , erm it seems to me that erm if we we spend too much time on trying to determine whether six or ten miles distant , is is there any great significance in terms of the global environment it would be at least an unproved case , one way or the other , but also there seems to me to be a clear conflict in those who are trying to say that the new settlement proposal falls because not large enough of a site is being proposed , one way and another . |
| 19 | Jake had been hurling these same insults at her now for years , and by now she ought to be totally immune to them . |
| 20 | And really we ought to be concentrating far more upon the other other changes which are proposed other than the Trusts and the things that in fact are fo far worse in my my own opinion . |
| 21 | But now , I think , there are signs that er things are beginning to pick up , certainly we 're being told things are beginning to pick up and I think probably as an office generally , we 're experiencing that upturn , although er every time we get some special job in , suddenly we think we are at the end of a recession and perhaps , you know , it 's the next job that really we ought to be looking to . |
| 22 | After a friendly evening out like that , capped by a friendly kiss , and Faye 's happy news about the baby 's movement , surely she ought to be feeling content ? |
| 23 | The duty of the police when they arrest without warrant is , no doubt , to be quick to see the possibility of crime , but equally they ought to be anxious to avoid mistaking the innocent for the guilty … |
| 24 | Well it ought to be said that the world today , in this year nineteen ninety two , is a different place from what it was a hundred years ago . |
| 25 | ‘ If you 've done it right it ought to be four thousand three hundred and three pounds and fifty pence . |
| 26 | He glanced at the clock and had a strange feeling that he had to do something — there was somewhere he ought to be . |
| 27 | Right , fine well maybe you ought to be announcing where you live James at the end of this so |
| 28 | So three o'clock Friday then we ought to be the lights before I suppose . |
| 29 | Now if that is true then we ought to be able to re- forecast a year getting a reasonable assessment , okay , on what 's that going to do . |
| 30 | If anyone claims to be making a factual statement , then they ought to be able to state what observations would be relevant to determining the truth or falsity of that statement . |