Example sentences of "they [modal v] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus conservatives — try as they may to isolate their theology in a cocoon separate from human knowledge , culture and society-are in trouble . |
| 2 | In making these statements the church is not standing aloof from the unconverted instructing them on how they ought to live their lives rather the church is speaking to itself , holding before all its members the id the ideal of what we believe God has taught in his word about the way in which people ought to live . |
| 3 | Erm in both of them it 's , they 're saying that how they 're falling behind and they ought to lead them as opposed to joining them . |
| 4 | Things like that they ought to put you in a room together , you 'd be fine would n't you ! |
| 5 | They ought to spend it on the speaker — I would 've thought that was obvious . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think they ought to let them out , walking about like that in those black clothes . |
| 7 | They ought to leave it to the markets . |
| 8 | At first , when he had suggested that they ought to celebrate her ‘ housewarming ’ with champagne , she had thought he was joking . |
| 9 | Police are understandably resistant to advice on how they ought to do their job from those without experience of it . |
| 10 | At a public meeting last September he suggested that saying ‘ they ought to do something about it ’ was pointless , and boldly proposed that the only way to save the shop was for everyone in the village to club together and buy it . |
| 11 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 12 | But er the government , a long while ago , actually decided they ought to do something about knocking the institutions ' heads together and they drew up a plan called the Council of Engineering Institutes , where the idea was we get a little of coordination across the entire patch . |
| 13 | people think they ought to do something for you . |
| 14 | ‘ They ought to thank us for letting our Thing do their job for them , ’ said Gurder solemnly . |
| 15 | Descriptivism is the name given to the view that the way people actually use language should be accurately described , without prescription of how they ought to use it . |
| 16 | I told him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) it was people like him who kept the idea of art going , kept the opera houses of the world open , kept the bookshops of the world open , they ought to take you out and shoot you , I said to him . |
| 17 | You 're right ; they ought to pull themselves together at one place . |
| 18 | They ought to make it so that they do n't have a car that goes above twenty five mile an hour I reckon ! |
| 19 | What we are saying is , the patient ought to be able to determine at any stage of their illness what care they receive , and they ought to know what is coming next . |
| 20 | When I got home I said , ‘ They ought to know you better than think you would marry a prostitute . ‘ |
| 21 | Oh I think they ought to have them cleaned every year do n't you ? |
| 22 | Yet her household , instead of doing what they might to ease her last days , were not merely neglectful , but downright cruel . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , one would exhort those workers who are conscious of the problems for their residents and would help them if they could to do their best — within the law and within the limits of their own conscience — to mend the situation in their own particular place of work if mending is needed there . |
| 24 | As writers like Leavis and Raymond Williams saw it , although educational institutions had a duty to do what they could to sustain it , the common culture was almost irredeemably lost . |
| 25 | I wanted to cut my hair short , and they allowed it for a while , until they discovered from a ‘ friend ’ that I am a lesbian , and then they tried everything they could to stop me dressing as I used to . |
| 26 | The students were being fed contradictory messages and did what they could to lead their lives in the best way possible , given deteriorating conditions and mounting ideological and political debates . |
| 27 | ‘ They all had it in for Jonathan and they did what they could to harm him , but they were glad enough of his money , of his custom in their shops and of the work he provided . ’ |
| 28 | In the 3 years before she died , her family did everything they could to support her , but it was a struggle . |
| 29 | Individuals in the party and the government came to use the situation in whatever way they could to optimize their own position , ranging from exercising the increased power which district and regional officials now had over the citizenry , to carrying out routine tasks perfunctorily while acquiring a significant income from black market activities . |
| 30 | They were happy , I think , that I had found such a good friend , and did everything they could to make him feel at home . |