Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section er , I was very surprised indeed that er Hilary asking for a review of the service because in fact all one 's experience and I am sure as well tells us that this is a success story , it is something that petition after petition that we 've asking to keep it that way , shows that it is one of the services that the County provides which is very much appreciated by the recipients and we ca n't say that in all County Councils ' services but you can say it about er the section seventeen and I think you ought to acknowledge that Chairman . |
| 2 | If concern for B 's predicament as a pure matter of justice were not sufficient to convince the Court that it should have exercised its discretion in B's favour , the Convention arguments ought to carry more weight . |
| 3 | PERHAPS the Independent Traveller ought to carry some sort of warning : ‘ Reading this section can change your life . ’ |
| 4 | Whether they love it or hate it , they ought to acquire some knowledge of it . |
| 5 | Lillie , Lillie , we was playing darts on Monday , came out from the ladies toilets ' and said You ought to see that skirting board , it 's all coming away and rotting . |
| 6 | I do n't know if there 's anything on tomorrow Maybe we ought to go this evening if she 's there to work . |
| 7 | Those given in the section ‘ Suggestion for further reading ’ should be enough for most readers ; the same is true for sociolinguistics , but I feel that any reading beyond basic introductory material ought to include some work by Labov , whose influence on the subject has been profound . |
| 8 | The Minister ought to accept this group of amendments in principle on ethical grounds and I am sure that he will do so . |
| 9 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott has described it as an art ‘ needing the patience of an animal ’ , and undoubtedly there would be times when physical strength and endurance were the key to survival , for survive they must to make any contribution from their efforts . |
| 10 | He 'll to have another go ! |
| 11 | There was a time , not long ago , when families would do all they could to suppress such information . |
| 12 | The Labour Party leadership did all it could to limit any appeal which the Left outside the Party might exercise over its members . |
| 13 | Here we ought to stress that evolution is not spurred simplistically on by ‘ random mutation ’ , as the Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins points out in his book The Blind Watchmaker . |
| 14 | On some occasions family members will attempt to sabotage treatment saying that the primary sufferer is being brainwashed , ought to be at home , ought to learn to hold his or her alcohol like everybody else and ought to do all manner of things that have failed before and will fail again to help addictive disease . |
| 15 | Just as there is a substantial move from saying ‘ This is a pleasant experience ’ to saying ‘ This is a good thing ’ , so there is a substantial move from saying ‘ This act will produce the best consequences ’ to saying ‘ I ought to do this act ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I ought to do some work , ’ said Joe , who felt events were causing him to fall behind with his current commission . |
| 17 | We erm probably ought to do some blood tests too |
| 18 | We really ought to do some baseline blood tests , and say |
| 19 | Representation could be more truthful , more profound than that , and ought to incorporate that feeling which had been naively symbolised by the halo in early primitive Christian painting . |
| 20 | Good climbs here are sufficiently thick on the ground to make the task of sorting out the best rather bewildering to the newcomer , but an acquaintance with the following three routes ought to leave little doubt just what Froggatt can offer , probing as they do into most areas of the gritstone experience found at the ‘ middle grades ’ . |
| 21 | We ought to leave this place at once . |
| 22 | Do you think I ought to put that teddy in his cot ? |
| 23 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 24 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 25 | I have said enough to show your lordships that the question before you is not whether you can reject this Bill but whether you ought to reject this Bill — a wholly different thing . |
| 26 | ‘ That bend in the old river ought to keep this pub nice and sheltered . |
| 27 | Before we plunge into that debate we ought to recognize that recruitment to elite positions in the public and private sectors is said to be highly meritocratic . |
| 28 | I ought to start this note with a health warning — it contains some mathematics ; not a lot , but some . |
| 29 | The German conjunctions used to signal this structure ( Einerseits ‘ on the one hand ’ , aber … andererseits ‘ but on the other hand ’ ) are more transparent than the mixture of causal Because and adversative But used in the English text . |
| 30 | This would be obvious from the birth certificate if unchanged ; and if , as has been proposed , an amended certificate has been granted , the code used to signal this fact would alert the registrar . |