Example sentences of "ought not [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another question is whether the criminal law ought not to be wider in its application to activities which carry some risk of causing death than in other spheres . |
| 2 | Laterality effects in normals are notoriously sensitive to experimental manipulations that ought not to be influential if what is being measured is some fixed attribute of cerebral organisation . |
| 3 | Fourthly , whatever the truth of the last statement , project objectives are underpinned by certain values and assumptions entailed in a particular educational ideology , and these , too , ought not to be unrecognised by any thorough evaluation . |
| 4 | Despite huge debts and a still disproportionate reliance on farming , an enviable record of strong growth and low inflation matches an appetite for change that ought not to be surprising in a society where half the population is under 28 ( and more than half the nuns and priests are over 60 ) . |
| 5 | This ought not to be surprising given the diversity of law itself and the increasingly diverse ways in which legal systems are developing . |
| 6 | The rallying point for the counter-attack against the deployment of sexuality ought not to be sex-desire but bodies and pleasures . ’ |
| 7 | Yet most would want to agree that such belief ought not to be contradictory in any way ( while bearing in mind the distinction between paradox and contradiction referred to at the end of Chapter 6 ) . |
| 8 | Er well Madam Deputy Speaker I think erm that the last half an hour shown that er the quality of debate in this house er remains extremely high and that even when you have an issue which on the face of it looks to be as dry as dust er that er there are some honourable members who will pick an argument er when perhaps er on the face of it there ought not to be much of an argument er I ca n't erm I ca n't say that erm I agreed with much of what erm the honourable member for Great Grimsby said er he seemed to imply er quite early on his er speech that most of the City of London er was collapsing in a sea of sleaze and er er other other goings on which are extremely er to be regretted but erm I think we ought to er remind him er that erm , you know , all all of these four orders er followed the Bingham inquiry into er what happened at B C C I which was not a British bank , was an international bank based erm overseas and I think I 'm right in saying this and I 'm sure my honourable friend the minister will confirm when he winds up er this is the first er such difficulty er that we 've experienced for a great length of time . |
| 9 | Things ought not to be this way , in love-making , however . |
| 10 | If , however , this condition is not satisfied , it is submitted that he ought not to be liable . |
| 11 | Judgment was given for the defendant ; the jury had found that she was not negligent and the court held that she ought not to be liable for an extraordinary act of nature which she could not reasonably anticipate . |
| 12 | The reason why the Court found there was a right of access within Article 6(1) — that the rule of law required that the authorities ought not to be able to stand between individuals and tribunals — applies with equal force to a right to a judgment — that the authorities , including the courts themselves , ought not to be able to refuse litigants before them their judgments . |
| 13 | The reason why the Court found there was a right of access within Article 6(1) — that the rule of law required that the authorities ought not to be able to stand between individuals and tribunals — applies with equal force to a right to a judgment — that the authorities , including the courts themselves , ought not to be able to refuse litigants before them their judgments . |
| 14 | But it ought not to be able to choose either to rescind or complete and preserve its right to claim damages . |
| 15 | Earlier we find little trace of it generally , and so we ought not to be surprised to find it missing from the ordinary Person 's consciousness of time in those days . |
| 16 | The fundamental message of the Bible , with its portrayal of the love of God for every individual and of the unity of those who are ‘ in Christ ’ through baptism , suggests that there ought not to be any distinctions in Church rules on grounds of gender . |
| 17 | But the Commission considers that the role played by music in the worship of parish and cathedral ought not to be confused . |