Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [adv] to " 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 | … freedom of speech , and debates on proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament . |
| 4 | That the free dome of Speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Courte or place out of Parliament . |
| 5 | Most importantly , this response ought sensibly to be in line with current market trends : financial diversification , the breaking down of barriers , and the consequent growth of integrated financial houses . |
| 6 | " Since we 're engaging in histrionics , I believe your response ought now to be " By God , you swine , you 'll pay for this " . " |
| 7 | The counter-argument is that peaceful protest is one thing but violent protest crosses the boundaries of acceptability ; the value of physical integrity is such that violence and threats of violence ought not to be downgraded simply because their origins lie in some political protest . |
| 8 | If the death penalty did deter , then so distinctive and so dramatic is the sanction that its effect ought also to be too marked to overlook or dispute . |
| 9 | Practice Richard Ashworth and ors v Berkeley-Walbrook Ltd ; CA ( Russell , Stuart-Smith LJJ ) ; 27 Sept 1989 As a general rule , where a counterclaim could properly be relied on as a set-off and where it arose out of the same subject matter as the claim , the counterclaiming defendant ought not to be required to give security for costs of that counterclaim unless there were exceptional circumstances . |
| 10 | One part of this judgment is a moral question raised by the officer as to whether the case is one about which action ought not to be taken . |
| 11 | ‘ I agree therefore with all your Lordships that the practice of exacting an undertaking in damages from the Crown as a condition of the grant of an interlocutory injunction in this type of law enforcement action ought not to be applied as a matter of course , as it should be in actions between subject and subject , in relator actions , and in actions by the Crown to enforce or to protect its proprietary or contractual rights . |
| 12 | But moral indignation ought principally to be reserved for ourselves . |
| 13 | Another question is whether the criminal law ought not to be wider in its application to activities which carry some risk of causing death than in other spheres . |
| 14 | Lord Roskill said that the niceties of civil law ought not to be imported into criminal law and that Dip Kaur was probably wrongly decided : she had appropriated . |
| 15 | So bleak are the prospects that I heard one media journalist muttering that the ITC ought not to be advertising the franchise at all . |
| 16 | ( e ) there was widespread agreement amongst those who opposed the proposal , that a solicitor who wished to act in the circumstances outlined in the question ought nevertheless to be under an obligation to disclose to the lender any personal , family or employee interests attaching to the transaction which might give rise to a conflict . |
| 17 | An individual suspecting that an unwarranted invasion of privacy may about to be published would be able to approach the council 's director , who , when satisfied of this , ‘ should instantly contact the editor and put him on notice of the complaint . |
| 18 | However , the frequent references to mathematics or numeracy in this connection suggest that the arts/science distinction may also to some extent be a maths/non-maths one , although no doubt some economists and psychologists are more numerate than some engineers and biologists , and numeracy tends nowadays to refer , however inaccurately , to computing as well as mathematics . |
| 19 | Christopher of Hapsburg was clearly a man of delicate sensibilities , for he adds the comment , ‘ This process ought not to be directed against Christians . ’ |
| 20 | The team must never to be stretched and when we press forward that also means the goalkeeper . |
| 21 | Timbers affected by wet rot need only to be dried out , or cut out and replaced with sound timbers , and so long as the source of wetting is removed and air allowed to circulate , the rot will not recur . |
| 22 | Tourism ought not to be a political matter . |
| 23 | There is no logical reason why a person ought not to be allowed to represent another in order to protect that other 's individual interests , but in such a case the main function of representation would probably be to provide finance for the action rather than organizational efficiency ; and in most cases there is no reason why one person should not provide another with finance to enable that other to bring an action in his or her own name . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the significance of this development ought not to be exaggerated . |
| 25 | Although the enterprise flourished , Elizabeth Malleson remained convinced that adult education ought not to be organized on a single-sex basis and , after failing to persuade the Men 's College to merge , converted the Women 's College to coeducation in 1874 . |
| 26 | It could be argued , therefore , that good education ought always to be based on multi-cultural principles . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But the Commission considers that the role played by music in the worship of parish and cathedral ought not to be confused . |
| 29 | Shooting a known man-eater used always to be done by attracting it to fresh meat , until it was discovered that a ripe durian is a much stronger lure . |
| 30 | But his course-work ought not to be irredeemably F. If the teacher is any good , he should be teaching his pupils all the time , so as to improve their historical understanding and their powers of accurate expression , to raise them from F to E and D and beyond . |