Example sentences of "there ought to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There ought to be a law against them . |
| 2 | Both the farmers and the conservationists agree that there ought to be a debate . |
| 3 | There ought to be a right to protest in public , it might be argued , and where the bona fide exercise of this right happens to lead to some form of disorder , it is wrong to visit the perpetrators with severe sanctions . |
| 4 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 5 | There ought to be a law against cutting off power supplies in the middle of February . |
| 6 | THERE ought to be a law against it . |
| 7 | There ought to be a law . |
| 8 | That is why the game is called a dilemma , why it seems so maddeningly paradoxical , and why it has even been proposed that there ought to be a law against it . |
| 9 | Nails said defiantly , ‘ There ought to be a reserve in this team , in case . |
| 10 | Just as there ought to be a Radio 2 equivalent of John Maddox 's excellent Scientifically Speaking ( which seems , unaccountably , to have disappeared ) , so such widely relevant debates should find a place on BBC 1 . |
| 11 | There ought to be a law against it . |
| 12 | ‘ There ought to be a law against it , ’ replied Dorothy emphatically , as she banged knives and forks down on to the table . |
| 13 | Dirac worked out mathematical equations that indicated that there ought to be a counterpart to the electron but having a positive electrical charge . |
| 14 | Bob Groves insisted there ought to be a public inquiry into the proposal , and called on Chelmsford Tory MP Simon Burns to take up the residents ' cause : they were less than happy with the MP 's response to date . |
| 15 | There ought to be a prayer that would do for all men , all the murdered bodies all over the world . |
| 16 | Well , if , if there is n't anybody else who wishes to compete with you for the Chair , er , then I think there ought to be a Vice Chair . |
| 17 | There ought to be a few strict rules which are obeyed to the letter . ’ |
| 18 | But there ought to be a hundred in each packet and Nick once counted a packet that he 'd done — Mr Evans , I mean — over again , and there were only ninety-seven . |
| 19 | I think the drive next year there ought to be a theme . |
| 20 | Perhaps there ought to be a law like that , but there is n't at the moment . |
| 21 | ‘ There ought to be a — ah ! |
| 22 | She pushed the papers back into the large Crockford and looked round the room , realising there ought to be a servants ' stair to the first floor continuing the one running from the ground floor to the basement . |
| 23 | Laura paused , the better to relish the effect of her words , then added , ‘ There ought to be a special word for a priest-slayer , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 24 | Merrill 's dark eyebrows lifted a little ; surely there ought to be a reception desk , and someone to attend to visitors ? |
| 25 | There ought to be a law against it ! |
| 26 | I think there ought to be a ‘ filter right ’ as you go into the Banbury Road . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd like to go along with it , but I think it 's an area that ou ought to be clear when , er , grants coming in for some or even minor building works , there ought to be a specification within , whether the building can cover it or whatever . |
| 28 | It may be at the end of end of all this that you you are nevertheless convinced that there ought to be a policy . |
| 29 | I think that there ought to be a proper company wide inst or certainly U K wide instruction going out so that everybody 's aware of the changes |
| 30 | Indeed that is something that bears closer examination because there are many people who believe that the relationship between a client and an auditor can be too close and that there ought to be a respectable distance between them . |