Example sentences of "we [modal v] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ought to support family life as one of the foundation stones of a good society and in consequence fight determinedly against the unemployment , poverty and lack of opportunity by which it is so often menaced . |
| 2 | I think we ought I think we ought to ask Alison if she 's come across anything |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been thinking , ’ he said , ‘ we ought to ask Ianthe Broome 's uncle to preach some time . |
| 4 | But er , this is just by way of an anticipation , the the general conclusion comes for instance , in this rather generalized book , and relatively short book , is that we ought to base variety and social order on science , and its insights , and certainly not on , on religion , and , and there he , there he leaves the question . |
| 5 | " But I 'm not sure that we ought to leave Maurice , though , " she said , licking each linger in turn . |
| 6 | ‘ I think we ought to leave Mr Archer in peace . |
| 7 | ‘ You know , people keep saying we ought to hang coats on Shylock 's arm … ’ |
| 8 | In the various operations where we are making ourselves more efficient we ought to see margins — the difference between selling price and manufacturing costs — improve . |
| 9 | I suppose we ought to go Mr . |
| 10 | it , yes it it 's his brief , so I suppose we ought to feed information to him |
| 11 | ‘ The Minister said we ought to circulate Tweed 's photo as well . |
| 12 | Well perhaps we ought to give people a s a a list a piece of paper and a pencil when they come into church one day , and say , Write down all the words that you hear today , or sing today that you do not understand . |
| 13 | We decided we ought to give people the opportunity to see some of the water meadow . |
| 14 | The issue is not one of saying , ‘ We ought to use information technology better ’ or ‘ We used to do environmental scanning better ’ , and so on . |
| 15 | ‘ We ought to tell people , ’ Grimma whispered . |
| 16 | ‘ We ought to get Karen here at least a week before she leaves , ’ he said to Celia that weekend , ‘ so she knows the routine . ’ |
| 17 | So I reckon we ought to get Nan or one of these contributors to say , to point out that the |
| 18 | ‘ Twoflower , I think we ought to get lunch somewhere else . |
| 19 | things like that , and we also , I think this year we ought to send Sid one because he came up with ten litres of five each of them boxes so came up with ten litres of wine . |
| 20 | We ought to offer management training where it is needed . |
| 21 | The other thing that tends to happen in post-olympic years is people look at rule books and different types of competition and there is a sort of atmosphere of I think we ought to change things . |
| 22 | Just as we could , perhaps , calculate the weight of the largest insect which could walk on a given liquid , so we can use these concepts to calculate how strong we ought to expect materials to be . |
| 23 | If Bartlett 's ( 1932 ) original view is correct we ought to expect changes in the pattern of recall of events . |
| 24 | We ought to have laws which consider the animal as an animal and not just as something that we use in one of fifteen different ways . |
| 25 | The ladies concerned I think were very pleased er , erm , I do I think it 's a very good idea , erm , to give a wife 's medal and er , with all the medals , and we ought to provide money for them the amount of waiting about they have to do |
| 26 | I find it a little difficult to take that kind of question from an hon. Gentleman who said that we ought to eat New Zealand apples and refuse to eat British sausages . |
| 27 | And , ‘ Are you sure we ought to make camp here ? ’ he said . |
| 28 | Perhaps we ought to make people aware that , just coming along security is n't . |
| 29 | We ought to run things properly and see if we ca n't do things better in future . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We 're very sorry and we 'd do anything we could to get Nigel back and the situation restored . ’ |