Example sentences of "he [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A person is guilty of contributory negligence if he ought reasonably to have foreseen that , if he did not act as a reasonable , prudent man , he might be hurt himself ; and in his reckonings he must take into account the possibility of others being careless ( Denning LJ in Jones v Livox Quarries Ltd [ 1952 ] 2 QB 608 ) . |
| 2 | His own pleasure had been of shorter duration for he was very well aware that he ought somehow to have protected this trusting girl from himself . |
| 3 | He ought n't to have seen that , ought he ? |
| 4 | The interview ended shortly and our Elt said something about how perhaps he ought n't say that sort of thing on the Northwestern TV station … |
| 5 | He knew he ought not to mark the books really , but it was only a tiny mark in pencil and no-one could accuse him of defacing library property , not really , it would n't do for an ex-library committee member to be caught defacing library property now would it . |
| 6 | If he takes into account matters which he ought not to take into account , or fails to take into account the matters which he ought to take into account , then his decision can be overridden by the courts . |
| 7 | If he gets the benefit for which he stipulated , he ought to honour his promise , and he ought not to avoid it by saying that the mother was herself under a duty to maintain the child . |
| 8 | He ought not to have died , and if I had gone with my mother to the doctor and done my part as a son , I feel as if he need not have done . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If the author be a wealthy man ’ , said a reviewer in 1799 , ‘ he ought not to have suffered the poor peasant to part with the last of the flock ’ . |
| 10 | She hoped it had n't been anything serious but if it was n't then he ought not to have brooded over it for the rest of the day . |
| 11 | Havelock Wilson who had , of course , been among those leaders to whom Larkin 's vituperation had been particularly directed , reserved his regrets for the oppressed people of Ireland whose cause had been so ill served by the " blunders and follies " of Larkin who " had such a splendid case , but made such a sorry mess of it , doing everything he ought not to have done and nothing that he ought to " and bringing , by his defeat , comfort to the Irish employers who had nothing good to be said for them at all . |
| 12 | … if the expert added up his figures wrongly ; or took something into account which he ought not to have taken into account , or conversely : or interpreted the agreement wrongly : or proceeded on some erroneous principle . |
| 13 | The most natural explanation of why we oppose checkerboard statutes appeals to that ideal : we say that a state that adopts these internal compromises is acting in an unprincipled way , even though no single official who voted for or enforces the compromise has done anything which , judging his individual actions by the ordinary standards of personal morality , he ought not to have done . |
| 14 | These two limbs are essential to a candidate 's training and he ought not to become a corporate member until he satisfies both requirements . ’ |
| 15 | So , if the buyer does , he can not complain of defects which he ought thereby to have discerned . |
| 16 | In February 1870 , while the new French government of Emile Ollivier tried to hammer out a revised constitution for the reformed Empire , Bismarck opened up his campaign to persuade Leopold that he ought seriously to consider becoming King of Spain . |
| 17 | He ought therefore to disappear at the first opportunity , especially since the purpose of his stay , that of meeting Katja Müller , appeared to have lost its point … |
| 18 | He ought never to have listened to Chambers ' advice on that . |
| 19 | He may presumably take into account his previous experience of the particular applicants , if they have organised marches in the past . |
| 20 | If the shaman is exposed to the insidious effects of the fungus for too long he may eventually turn into a giant shaman mushroom . |
| 21 | He may again head to South Africa in pursuit of his cricketing career . |
| 22 | Once he has settled into his new post he may again become actively involved in the sport . |
| 23 | He may however wish to go down to a detailed level , in which a sub-component of the domain is specified as having a fixed or moving relationship to a component or primitive of another domain , such as one " slotted into " the other . |
| 24 | He may legitimately expect from his field officer detailed knowledge of and familiarity with any discharger or any ‘ problems ’ . |
| 25 | It was held that when time for delivery is of the essence of a contract for the sale of goods ( that is , a condition ) and after the stipulated time has elapsed the buyer waives his right to cancel by pressing for delivery , converting the term into a warranty , he may later give notice setting a reasonable deadline , once again making the time for delivery a condition of the contract . |
| 26 | He recommended Richard Coppin [ q.v. ] as his successor and emigrated to Barbados in about 1655 , where he may later have been investigated for organizing conventicles . |
| 27 | If a boy is born ‘ breech ’ , or bottom first , for instance , he may later believe that he does things the wrong way round ; or because such births are painful for the mothers , he may decide that he hurts women . |
| 28 | He may later fight his way to the very top of the hierarchy in a series of tactically staged combats . |
| 29 | For the purpose of seeing whether his suspicions are well-founded , he may … stop any person carrying goods which he suspects to have been stolen , he may also examine the person and detain him . |
| 30 | He may also drop his ball back into play , though no nearer the hole , when given relief by the rules or under penalty of one shot if he thinks the ball is unplayable . |