Example sentences of "the [noun pl] ought to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking into account the annual exemption , indexation and rebasing , the shareholders ought to be in a better tax position than if the amounts distributed had been classified as a company distribution . |
| 2 | While , as stated , some of the concepts used now have their origins in the nineteenth century and earlier , there were nevertheless different views taken of how far the courts ought to be reviewing tribunals and other inferior bodies . |
| 3 | The substantive limits which the courts ought to be imposing on the exercise of discretion is a complex question which can not be answered merely by dwelling upon individual cases . |
| 4 | The rules ought to be laid down based on common sense , not like one-way systems , things like that . |
| 5 | But the rules ought to be changed . |
| 6 | There ough the rules ought to be hardened up to stop this kind of thing going on |
| 7 | Well is er Mr the issue which the inspectors ought to be er addressing themselves whether or not this land serves a greenbelt purpose , or not ? |
| 8 | Is one of the matters to which the inspectors ought to be applying their mind whether or not this land is more appropriately regarded as countryside or part of the village ? |
| 9 | Is one of the matters to which the inspectors ought to be applying their mind Would development of the site these sites amount to encroachment into the countryside ? |
| 10 | In determining whether the defendants ought to be held liable under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher , the learned judge considered that he ought to pay regard to ( i ) the quantities of combustible materials which the defendants brought onto the land ; ( ii ) the way in which they stored them ; and ( iii ) the character of the neighbourhood . |
| 11 | Well , the cleaners ought to be at work ; and they might have left the outer door open . |
| 12 | ‘ Then the workers ought to be stronger . ’ |
| 13 | the standard undertaking with the banks ought to be reviewed to include the phrase ‘ out of monies received by us ’ , to avoid the implication that the performance of the undertaking was outside the control of the solicitor . |
| 14 | far from happy with the plan print room with the er er o o o and suggest that the businesses ought to be concerned about the way that their records are stored in their plan room . |
| 15 | In July 1857 even Kiselev believed that because emancipation with land was for the time being impossible , freeing the serfs ought to be postponed for the foreseeable future . |
| 16 | They cause no great problem to anybody , and what ought to happen is that the gipsies and certainly the tinkers ought to be encouraged to buy sites and develop them and police them themselves . |
| 17 | The decks must be clear , hatches fastened , Stripey out of sight , and above all the girls ought to be back in regular education . |
| 18 | Bishop , you and Hrolf and the physicians ought to be busy . |
| 19 | The information system aims to support decision-making and the decisions ought to be directed towards achieving the goals of the organisation . |
| 20 | Erm no what coming out of this is that how that although one would assume in the south that the peasants ought to be more revolutionary , in actual fact it 's the reverse and why is this happening , is it because of the fact that the Communist Party were in the n that maybe essentially that the peasants in China er were reactionary and worked within the confines of moral economy , but because of the presence of the Communist Party in the north they became more revolutionary and that 's sort of suggested by the success of land reform there and the fact that how , that they ca n't implement it in the south . |
| 21 | Seduced by the flashy demonstrations or the apparent ease of use of the various environment managers , whether Apple 's , Windows or GEM , they adopted desktop publishing wholesale and gave it to secretarial staff on the assumption that those who produce the documents ought to be the ones who make it look pretty . |
| 22 | In all cases the premises ought to be defined by reference to a plan , probably stated to be for identification purposes only unless the plan is supposed to take precedence over the verbal description of the premises . |
| 23 | If being nice to infants is a way of currying favour with females , the benefits ought to be discernible in the way males were treated once the observer females were let loose . |
| 24 | The subscribers ought to be allowed the ‘ free entrance of light into these their pleasure houses as it steals from heaven without embargo or blockade . ’ |
| 25 | I have n't seen one church official saying that Halloween should be scrapped and we should n't be celebrating it , or maybe the churches ought to be er putting forward some idea of their own . |