Example sentences of "[modal v] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they who are elected to legislate for our society should unfortunately decide to pass a disastrous measure of legislation that will allow the public promotion of contraception and an access hitherto unlawful to the means of contraception , they ought to know clearly the meaning of their action , when it is judged by the norms of objective morality and the certain consequences of such a law … |
| 2 | Just thought you ought to know before you sell your soul ; you ca n't get it back . |
| 3 | Both Joe Holyoak and his rivals really ought to know . |
| 4 | INTELLECTUALS calling for legalisation of drugs ought to know better , Peter Lloyd , Under-Secretary at the Home Office , told the conference yesterday . |
| 5 | I asked him what it might have been ; after all , if he was an expert on the local birds then he ought to know . |
| 6 | ‘ You ought to know . |
| 7 | ‘ You ought to know better than to ask that . |
| 8 | ‘ You ought to know that . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ Kitty said in a carefully careless tone , ‘ There is something you ought to know before that busybody Condon gets on to you about it . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I can just see him looking down that long nose of his and saying in that sanctimonious voice : ‘ there 's something you ought to know , Mr O'Shea … ’ |
| 11 | Mystified parents , who ought to know better , ask : ‘ What took you so long ? |
| 12 | ‘ I thought you ought to know … |
| 13 | But the gas has been cut off , which is an appalling piece of vindictiveness on the part of some public servant who ought to know that writers of talent have better things to do with their time than remember dates on bits of paper delivered in brown envelopes like a trade circular . |
| 14 | She wrote to him quite sharply , not caring who read her letter , that : — it is impossible for me to post a gun as you ought to know you foolish man for what would the post office officials think were I to turn up with a gun to send ? |
| 15 | You ought to know . ’ |
| 16 | The information is confidential , but I think you ought to know . |
| 17 | We both thought there were so many things people ought to know about but were afraid to ask . |
| 18 | Thought you ought to know … ’ |
| 19 | The Law Commission committee says that this principle is not good enough ; sellers should be under a legal duty to reveal everything they know and ought to know about their property — which would oblige them to carry out a survey before offering it for sale . |
| 20 | I know I 'm in my mid thirties and ought to know my own mind by now , but I 'm scared of the commitment . |
| 21 | Especially in secondary schools , teachers have always been subject to the constraints of this system , based on what their pupils need in the way of qualifications , as well as the more general considerations of what their pupils ought to know . |
| 22 | The point is of some importance since a number of rules of procedure are growing to be applicable to Cabinet Committees and we ought to know where there is a real , useful distinction or whether it is merely the pragmatical difference that some are serviced by the Cabinet Office and some are not . |
| 23 | After all , he ought to know . |
| 24 | When I got home I said , ‘ They ought to know you better than think you would marry a prostitute . ‘ |
| 25 | ‘ Every professional man knows , ( at least he ought to know ) that … a scene with the sun immediately behind him wants air , a quality generally considered as absolutely necessary … on the other hand if the sun is within his vision , it probably has too much . |
| 26 | You may not have heard of it , but you ought to know about it . |
| 27 | You ought to know by this time that — in the language of popular fiction — he has eyes for no one but you . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ There 's something you ought to know and it could n't wait . ’ |
| 29 | But what about the cant of usury and the mode of treating that he ought to know ? |
| 30 | You were a teacher , you ought to know . |