Example sentences of "[noun prp] ought [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOREMAN : ‘ Holyfield ought to be scared because the only person that can stop Lewis winning the title now is Lewis . |
| 2 | What Mr is seeking to do now is to raise a much wider issue , it seems to us , and that is that Skelton ought to be washed-over in its entirety with greenbelt notation . |
| 3 | What we can not countenance though sir , is any widening o of the route that they seek to go down , to have these sites included in the greenbelt , and that 's to say to entertain the argument that the whole of Skelton ought to be washed-over . |
| 4 | Barton has heavy borrowings too , and to put it crudely , if they 're paying interest and Huerter is n't , Huerter ought to be able to undercut them in the market . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Bawdy ought to be outrageous and extravagant , ’ Lewis had written ; and Green tells us , ‘ he proceeds to give a very mild example . ’ |
| 6 | But a breach in the wall à la ITV or even Dallas does not in itself destroy the fundamental nature of the existing system ; it may contain within it forces which threaten it but a well established and respected institution such as the BBC ought to be able to adapt to change . |
| 7 | If this omission was not the fault of some over-zealous sub-editor , them Mr Bailey ought to be ashamed of himself . |
| 8 | . Tim ought to be able to do it . |
| 9 | She was n't going to tell that fear to anyone though ; she was n't having them prying or saying that Dorothy ought to be glad of a new brother or sister . |