Example sentences of "we [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 We ought to be under no illusion that the success or otherwise of what is happening in Poland and Hungary will substantially rest upon the actions of the two governments , ’ Mr Major said .
2 I think , therefore , that as Anglicans we ought to be affirming more confidently than we usually do the freedom this gives to the mind , the heart and the body to be an integrated whole .
3 We are not so sensible as we ought to be of the Providence which hourly sustains us .
4 We are only two of us now and we ought to be closer .
5 It was clever of humankind to invent science and art to supply the deficiencies of nature , and we ought to be proud .
6 So when we look at the grimacing gestures of a chimpanzee and wonder at the almost ludicrous parallels with our own behaviour this is just part of a whole host of behavioural and anatomical similarities that show without doubt that we ought to be classified with the apes ( we are all of us primates ) , and that we share a distant ancestor with our diminutive caricatures .
7 I think I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere , because we 're certainly not at Threlkeld , where we ought to be by now .
8 The former is an accurate insight to where we are , the latter into where we ought to be .
9 We ought to be getting home .
10 Regardless of whether it is a tithe or an offering over and above , it is good to analyse the sorts of places where we ought to be giving God 's money .
11 So we ought to be cheering as the big round numbers go by , leaving us healthy and whole .
12 This particularly applies in the case of professionals such as doctors and teachers who we ought to be able to trust .
13 After all , British taxpayers are picking up the £60 million bill and we ought to be told a lot more about why it happened and why so much damage was caused .
14 And the non-practitioners say , look , wait a minute , this is what we ought to be doing .
15 ‘ Really , it just follows the principles of long-term contract accounting , but we ought to be able to do it better than SSAP 9 practitioners because , while they apply the theory to a handful of different contracts , we are applying it to 20m policies .
16 Perhaps we ought to be a little more circumspect .
17 I think that this is something that we as Christians should be aware of and , if possible , we ought to be available to help keen ex-offenders reintegrate into society .
18 They need better leisure facilities , certainly , but given current trends that 's a market we ought to be considering anyway .
19 He 's saying that we ought to be moving a bit up market an-l selling wines , spirits and cocktails to the 18–25 age group .
20 I think it 's where we ought to be going .
21 Obviously only a small portion of these neutrinos will come in the Earth 's direction , but still we ought to be in the path of about 80 billion billion billion neutrinos per second .
22 ‘ I suppose I thought we ought to be able to help ourselves . ’
23 Looking at Durham Cathedral , the Cardinal pointed out that the Church is not just concerned with beautiful buildings but also the dignity of the individual — ‘ I think we ought to be inspired by those saints of Anglo-Saxon England , to do in our day what they did in theirs .
24 Most educated people in this country now believe , in a vague sort of way , that we ought to be less sexually prudish than the Victorians are alleged to have been , and that sexual morality should be guarded rather by example and exhortation than by penal sanctions .
25 It 's a way of as a Council taken the position that we ought to be spending your money effectively , right .
26 But the sort of criticism that says ‘ if we want to achieve X , I believe we are going the wrong way about it , what we ought to be doing is Y ’ , seems to me to be exactly the approach that is needed .
27 This discussion suggests that the question we ought to be asking is not a descriptive one — what is public law ? — but a prescriptive or normative one : when ought public law rules apply ; or , what is the proper scope of public law ?
28 But after so many of these experiences , we ought to be becoming increasingly aware of the danger .
29 With that as the background , it is the time for a deep study of the philosophy underlying the system — to determine afresh what we ought to be seeking to achieve , to examine how far and in what manner the results of our present practice fall short , and to sift new ideas in order to judge which of them appear both constructive and practicable in operation .
30 I know what we ought to be looking for — a high , lonely place with dry soil , where rabbits can see and hear all round and men hardly ever come .
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