Example sentences of "as [pers pn] ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marianne is me ; Eleanor is me as I ought to be . |
| 2 | Paige loves to play games , and sometimes I 'm not as sharp as I ought to be . |
| 3 | We are not so sensible as we ought to be of the Providence which hourly sustains us . |
| 4 | They are good , but as people they 're not as good as they ought to be . |
| 5 | It has dawned on the stock market that accounts are not as reliable as they ought to be and that dubious accounting practices may reflect underlying difficulties or at least lead to some distortion in the market 's valuation of a company 's shares . |
| 6 | He 'd see it as some kind of betrayal , that I 'd allowed someone from outside to see that things are n't as perfect as they ought to be . ’ |
| 7 | They 'll not be as lively as they ought to be come morning , but tonight will have got a whole lot of unhappy things out of Seb 's system . |
| 8 | So , if erm so your , your , your principal complaint , I maybe wrong it maybe not your principal , look at page a hundred and twenty seven for your assistance , erm standard form of agreements restricted competitions , the service of the petitions or the agents provided so this is names and thereby restrict the competition as the agents them say erm then impose on that it was a regime etcetera , erm that the , the competitive the anti competitive one is your sub paragraph one is n't it ? , on page one , two , seven your saying look here is a of , of dictated through their bi-laws , a standard form that all agents must use , you say , erm , er that that restricts competition because it means that agents are free , or as free as they ought to be , erm to compete with each other or providing services to outside names , I follow that , I did n't say I except it , but I follow that entirely , erm , but does n't , does n't , if you 're right does n't it follow that the agreements are void ? |
| 9 | The view is never as good as it ought to be . |
| 10 | Moreover , the surveyor will feel you do n't wish to involve yourself and his allegiance will be inclined towards the building society or bank , instead of to you which is as it ought to be . |
| 11 | I was surprised , therefore , to read ( in All Across the Telegraph : a Bob Dylan handbook edited by Michael Gray and John Bauldie , published by Futura ) an essay about the real William Zantzinger ( as it ought to be spelled ) who committed the murder in 1963 and as of 1984 was a respected and prosperous businessman in the same state , Maryland , where he had committed it . |
| 12 | In my view this is as it ought to be . |
| 13 | The way things look now , Greece 's public sector is not going to be cut as much as it ought to be . |
| 14 | Admittedly , he says that he is describing ethical discussion as it is , rather than as it ought to be . |
| 15 | The Realist approach , he remarks , gets its name from precisely this point : that it deals with human nature as it is and not as it ought to be , and with historical events as they have occurred , not as they should have occurred . |
| 16 | ‘ [ Just as ] feminism identifies interrelatedness and mutuality-equal , respectful , and nurturing relationships — as the basis of the world as it really is and as it ought to be , we can find no better understanding and image of the divine than that of the perfect and open relationships of love . |
| 17 | This is not as straightforward as it ought to be , because the statement of claim is long and complex and in some respects obscure . |
| 18 | He stared at the T'ang , wondering if he knew what he had become ; if the doubt that he professed was as thorough , as all-inclusive as it ought to be . |
| 19 | It 's not quite as crisp as it ought to be . |
| 20 | In this epistle he indicates that he himself , at the time of writing , is a solitary attracted by the disciplined life of service in a religious order , but does not feel any burning conviction that that is his calling : I confess , alas , that I do not feel that burning spiritual desire for entry into religion , inspired by that divine grace , as it ought to be felt by those who from zealous devotion and pure desire of the mind plan to enter religion … |
| 21 | You could recognise the style of a weather report , an Agony Aunt all sorts of different types of writing , er , you could probably , if your reading is as wide as it ought to be , recognise the style of a leader from er , pretty heavy newspaper , Guardian , Independent , Observer , that sort of thing , could you ? |
| 22 | Harrowing stuff with emotions , hormones and nerve ends aching , but for all the quality of the acting and the script , it does n't seem as moving as it ought to be but it is hard to define why not . |
| 23 | No , no I ca n't I just ca n't eat so I 'm not forcing myself to eat , what I 'm trying to do is only to eat the right things and I must start vitamin supplements I think I 've got the age when I probably need that , I mean , this cold is a warning to me that my immune system is not as strong as it ought to be , I should n't have had another cold so soon after getting rid of one ! |
| 24 | Matt 's pretty fit from all those outdoor movies where they put olive oil on his pectorals ( though not as fit as he ought to be ) and the two of us gave the crew a bit of a hard time , said union rules did n't apply in the Jungle , and so on . |