Example sentences of "[det] [noun] ought to [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Appeals can be made on several grounds , for example , that permission ought to be granted , that permission has been granted and that no permission is required . |
| 2 | This condition ought to be seen by all to be quite ridiculous and unacceptable , but it is all too common . |
| 3 | However , in general questions about control in management , some reference ought to be made to the increasing number of mathematical and other techniques which are now available to management in the execution of their planning and controlling activities . |
| 4 | All is not true , so not everything should be believed ; some things ought to be doubted . |
| 5 | Therefore , your main aim and concern this September ought to be to make amends and rebuild bridges . |
| 6 | How many people think this project ought to be stopped right now before it goes any further ? ’ |
| 7 | However , if the Revenue 's approach represents a new hardening of attitudes that will affect all small family companies , then this matter ought to be explored at a high level by the appropriate professional body or be taken through the courts by a consortium of practitioners . |
| 8 | It has been argued ( 12 ) that the use of arable land for livestock production is wasteful and this activity ought to be confined to the ‘ upland ’ areas . |
| 9 | There is an alternative to either of these courses which may be worth considering and that is that the Government should take the line that they have come to the conclusion that , while some restriction ought to be made in the infliction of the death penalty , the time has not yet come for its complete abolition . |
| 10 | This had been quite difficult and the Gnomes had scratched their heads a good deal , because , although people did not openly refer to it , everyone knew that Flame 's father was Fael-Inis and it had meant a lot of worrisome discussions as to whether this fact ought to be openly acknowledged , or whether it might be discourteous to draw attention to it . |
| 11 | ‘ I imagine so ; there was certainly a big turnover … perhaps the answer to that question ought to be that I do not know . |
| 12 | Again he follows Aristotle in believing that each child ought to be male and that a female is the result of misadventure . |
| 13 | Now that 's something that erm particularly that last point , that audit committees that are established in most efficient companies want to look at and I come back to the point that audit ought to be looked at as something that assists companies in efficiency as well as a mechanism for detecting fraud and yet the government does n't appear to be examining that . |
| 14 | The second supposition is ideological , that ownership ought to be individual . |
| 15 | He wanted his prose to be objective , scientific , devoid of personal presence , devoid of opinions ; so he decided that poetry ought to be written according to the same principles . |
| 16 | This seems to suggest that the policy of the 1974 Act is the recognition that there is a need for industrial waste to be disposed of , and the companies doing so are providing a much needed service , but such operations ought to be closely controlled to ensure that any interference on the surrounding locality is minimal . |
| 17 | And if the law of homicide makes no special provision for mercy killings ( see Chapter 7.4(h) below ) or for killings during extreme emotional disturbance , despite a widely held view that such cases ought to be treated as less culpable than ‘ ordinary ’ murders , is there not an argument for a fairly broadly defined qualified defence ? |
| 18 | Unlike Bacon , who supposed that his method of inquiry would give certainty , he concluded that judgement on such matters ought to be suspended . |
| 19 | Clearly , each such area ought to be able to make some contribution to analysing George and Marie 's problems . |
| 20 | The development of such schemes ought to be assured since they were commended by the Royal Commission , are greatly valued by NACAB and has the support of the Law Society . |
| 21 | Since decisions about how much R&D ought to be done turn on conjectures about the outcomes of competition in final product markets , co-operative R&D ventures will certainly involve at least some sharing of information on product market conditions . |
| 22 | If the investor is to syndicate , the management and its advisers should try to play some part in the selection of additional investors ; if an additional director is to be appointed by the syndicate , that director ought to be selected for the experience and talent he can bring to Newco . |
| 23 | Neither group ought to be disappointed by what they hear . |
| 24 | That Jurors ought to be duely impannelled and returned and Jurors which passe upon men in tryalls for high Treason ought to be free holders . |
| 25 | It might be claimed that studying routine policing in Northern Ireland avoids the real issue of policing in the province and that attention ought to be addressed to those sections of the RUC which are responsible for what Turk ( 1982 ) calls ‘ political policing ’ and Brodeur ( 1983 ) ‘ high policing ’ , such as the Special Branch , the mobile support units , which are in effect riot police , or the various surveillance units like E4A . |
| 26 | Lord Donaldson implied , however , that solicitors who exercised their new rights of audience in these cases ought to be expected to concentrate on advocacy . |
| 27 | These matters ought to be included in the 1991 advisory restructuring exercise ( Leeds City Council 1991c ) . |
| 28 | So the true task of adult education these days ought to be first and foremost to equip a sufficient body of ordinary citizens so that they are capable of forming rationally grounded opinions upon matters of public importance . |
| 29 | THE CHOICE of Sardinia — now confirmed as the venue for the opening stages of England 's 1990 World Cup campaign — satisfies the requirement laid down by Britain 's Minister for Sport , Mr Colin Moynihan , that these matches ought to be played ‘ on an island where the problem can be contained . ’ |
| 30 | " Two of these beams ought to be replaced , " he said . |