Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [adv] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( a ) The meaning of description If goods sold by description are defined in terms of being identified or earmarked , then in the case of a contract for the sale of specific goods , non-correspondence with description ought logically to be impossible since s61(1) of SGA 1979 defines " specific goods " as including those identified and agreed upon at the time of the contract of sale . |
| 2 | If it were , our decision ought obviously to be amenable to appeal . |
| 3 | She believed that private medicine ought not to coexist by the side of the Health Service ; or perhaps more fairly , that if it did exist it should not derive any benefits from the Health Service , and that none of the resources of the Service ought properly to be available to private practitioners . |
| 4 | Aspiring entrants to the profession need therefore to be aware of sociolinguistic variations that are related to a speaker 's sex , the role of gender in language and the possible social implications of both , particularly in classrooms . |
| 5 | The company ought therefore to be able to form a reasonable view on the price obtained . |
| 6 | The decision that Shakespeare faced hundreds of times — whether to put his words , as Dryden expressed it , into verse or into ‘ the other harmony of prose ’ — is one that the reader ought always to be alert to , for each decision signals an element of dramatic meaning that we can yet recover . |