Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 If one ought to act because of an authoritative directive one 's reasons are different than if one ought to perform the same act for other reasons .
2 Given the confusion surrounding their plans for railway privatisation , perhaps the Government ought to demand the same test for all of its would-be railway experts .
3 Faced with the absurdity of British public life , I sometimes think I ought to do the same , turning this space into a museum of grotesque items displayed without comment .
4 I got so used , we used to go the same way all the time .
5 Having said that , even in my old Cub I used to suffer the same fate on occasion .
6 Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was
7 This is a bad mistake , as her ex- husband used to do the same thing for real often enough .
8 But in a stage of my life I used to do the same thing a lot .
9 Er and they used to do the same to ours .
10 ‘ Michael used to do the same , ’ said Holdfast .
11 He used to do the same everyone else !
12 I think there 's a few times I was gon na pack in cos I used to do the same amount of work as everyone else and I got paid
13 And we all used to we we both schools ended up , er used to use the same assembly hall .
14 ‘ We used to share the same office and we can work together in the same environment , but not when we are actually working for the same clients , ’ she says .
15 And you and you used to get the same money .
16 And the minister used to get the same .
17 ‘ We used to have the same problem with Shrewsbury .
18 Bobby Darin used to feel the same way .
19 Hence , although we can not say that every material ought to have the same strength , we can say that , very approximately , all materials ought to have the same elastic breaking strain .
20 Hence , although we can not say that every material ought to have the same strength , we can say that , very approximately , all materials ought to have the same elastic breaking strain .
21 There is a natural appeal in using age weighting in the formula based on the normative assumption that individuals in a given age group ought to have the same utilisation of services wherever they live .
22 It is hard to see what sense there is in , for example , assuming that individuals without a car ought to have the same utilisation of services wherever they live .
23 ‘ It 's typical of Socialist envy to suggest that people ought to earn the same .
24 Consequently they ought to owe the same duties as traditional insiders .
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