Example sentences of "[adv] we ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps we ought to be a little more circumspect . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | and er actually that is something perhaps we ought to be talking about . |
| 4 | Perhaps we ought to be spending time developing camouflage , rather than advertising our presence . |
| 5 | So we ought to be cheering as the big round numbers go by , leaving us healthy and whole . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | also we ought to be treating it , are you not actually having any active treatment at the moment are you ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So three o'clock Friday then we ought to be the lights before I suppose . |
| 12 | 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 . |