Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] ought to be " in BNC.
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| 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 | How many people think this project ought to be stopped right now before it goes any further ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I imagine so ; there was certainly a big turnover … perhaps the answer to that question ought to be that I do not know . |
| 10 | Again he follows Aristotle in believing that each child ought to be male and that a female is the result of misadventure . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The second supposition is ideological , that ownership ought to be individual . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Clearly , each such area ought to be able to make some contribution to analysing George and Marie 's problems . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Neither group ought to be disappointed by what they hear . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The local authorities decide how to distribute this grant among the various services they provide — together with the money they themselves raise from Community Charge — but the Secretary of State each year indicates in advance what he thinks their ‘ Total Standard Spending ’ , and their ‘ Standard Spending ’ on each service ought to be . |
| 20 | That person ought to be you . |
| 21 | that , that person ought to be elected as well . |
| 22 | ‘ That beast ought to be put away . ’ |
| 23 | On the other hand , it may be urged that self-help ought to be strictly limited even against a wrongdoer and forbidden altogether against one who is not a wrongdoer , except that retaking might be permitted in circumstances of inevitable accident or of necessity ( e.g . |
| 24 | that within the EC that information ought to be presented in a standardised fashion so that like can be compared with like irrespective of the member State in which the company was incorporated , but |
| 25 | In what is heralded as a vote of conscience , any conscience ought to be deeply troubled by the agonising choice between respecting human embryos from their earliest moments and responding to the plight of infertile couples . |
| 26 | And surely any dramatist ought to be able to move us with that final night of Holly 's life , when his musicians ( including Waylon Jennings ) gave their places on the ‘ plane to the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens . |
| 27 | Procedural due process is a matter of the right procedures for judging whether some citizen has violated laws laid down by the political procedures ; if we accept it as a virtue , we want courts and similar institutions to use procedures of evidence , discovery , and review that promise the right level of accuracy and otherwise treat people accused of violation as people in that position ought to be treated . |