Example sentences of "[adv] it ought to [be] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 ‘ If you 've done it right it ought to be four thousand three hundred and three pounds and fifty pence .
3 The final determination of the ley theory 's status is obviously desirable ; if it is a mare 's nest in Britain , unlike in South America , then it ought to be despatched as quickly as possible .
4 According to Gandhi , if it is at all possible for man to describe this power then it ought to be called Truth ( Satya ) , which is a derivative of Sat , which literally means that which is or exists .
5 However , if some people in the game are getting money then it ought to be shared out .
6 The increase in the number of prosecutions did not result , however , in a feeling of sympathy for homosexuals , but rather the feeling , as John Wolfenden expressed it , that ‘ nobody had any idea how much of it there was … but there was an impression that it was increasing ; and there was a feeling that if it was then it ought to be curbed ’ .
7 But it is hard to resist this plan put before me and indeed it ought to be tried since I have no other resource .
8 However , it is undeniably the case that the statute is less clear and concise than ideally it ought to be .
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