Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever she had felt at nineteen , hatred was all that was left now , and hatred ought to impart strength . |
| 2 | We ought to support family life as one of the foundation stones of a good society and in consequence fight determinedly against the unemployment , poverty and lack of opportunity by which it is so often menaced . |
| 3 | I bet she is n't , I bet when she ought to like Father Christmas and they sort of |
| 4 | ‘ He 's the local judge , and I ought to report Pew 's death to him or Squire Trelawney . |
| 5 | ( p. 140 ) Burke estimated that " the people " , by which he meant those who ought to enjoy voting rights , comprised about 400,000 people in England and Scotland . |
| 6 | ought to see lounge , she 's got Take That disco , and Take That |
| 7 | Julia put the desolation that suddenly thrust itself into her mind down to her cold and said that she thought she ought to go bed . |
| 8 | If the issue today in some people 's eyes is the need for this community in Greater York to be one hundred percent self sufficient then perhaps we really ought to go pack up and er go home , er because there 's no way that er a settlement that one could envisage in Greater York or perhaps anywhere else can be a hundred percent self sufficiency , self sufficient , you 're not going to get a shopping mall , you 'd be unlikely to get a a major touring theatre , so you can not aim for a hundred percent self sufficiency , you aim for what is appropriate for the size of the community and particularly its relationship to existing settlements er in the general area . |
| 9 | If the interpretation of dog in this sentence were the result of contextual modulation of the general sense , it ought to include reference to , for instance , young females with good eyesight . |
| 10 | ‘ Kids ought to know stuff like that . |
| 11 | She swung her legs over the side of the sofa , which reduced her defiance to mere childishness , alas , since her head began to swim dreadfully , and also caused him to say impatiently — he really ought to meet Mama , at least he would agree with her — ‘ Oh , do be quiet for a moment , madam . |
| 12 | Indeed , many of the new rules ought to increase efficiency as they sweep away examples of market failure or cartels that distort competition . |
| 13 | ‘ You ought to try acupressure , ’ said Constance . |
| 14 | The ladies concerned I think were very pleased er , erm , I do I think it 's a very good idea , erm , to give a wife 's medal and er , with all the medals , and we ought to provide money for them the amount of waiting about they have to do |
| 15 | This new confidence rests on the now widely held assumption that the Japanese government will do whatever it must to support share prices until company earnings rebound . |
| 16 | Tribunals are an essential check on the powers of officialdom but at the moment they do not work as well as they should to ensure justice in welfare provision . |
| 17 | you have to wait longer than you should to get money back from the Revenue ; |
| 18 | it , yes it it 's his brief , so I suppose we ought to feed information to him |
| 19 | This on top of everything else , she seemed to be thinking , although she did what she might to eliminate exhaustion and scorn from her voice . |
| 20 | The Government try to justify their claims about a minimum wage on the grounds of what it might to do employment , so it is worth spending a little time on the reasons why we shall insist on introducing it , and the rationale behind that . |
| 21 | The problem is that try as you might to obliterate jealousy , jealousy keeps cropping up — that 's certainly my experience . |
| 22 | Try as he might to gain entry , the doors of the Viceroy 's House remained closed to him . |
| 23 | You ought to play chess — ’ |
| 24 | Clearly , ‘ planning ’ ( to take just one aspect ) ought to cover marketing , financial and personnel considerations– but it also brings in general management as well . |
| 25 | They did all they could to encourage peasant resistance , to enlighten the masses and to expose the myth of the Tsar as a caring ‘ little father ’ . |
| 26 | Rehearsals on the Sheffield play did n't actually begin till two days later , but she 'd promised to be there as soon as she could to discuss make-up with the director . |
| 27 | As a boy growing up in New York , he recalls his father doing whatever he could to keep food in the ten hungry mouths , including buying up condoms and sunglasses wholesale and selling them to shopkeepers . |
| 28 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 29 | I did what I could to offer comfort to the family . |
| 30 | As many of those benefits go to people who do not need them , that spending does far less than it could to relieve poverty . |