Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We ought to go to another town , ’ says one . |
| 2 | ‘ You said I was to tell you if I thought Oliver ought to go to another school . |
| 3 | I ought to go round this side . |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe her studies ought to wait till another time , ’ she added . |
| 5 | Er trading standards continue to be under pressure er we ought to agree on that er and we I I believe we may not have difficulty er in achieving the additional value of this type of almost on an annual basis if we are short of the trading standards . |
| 6 | You 're from Paradise Street , you ought to know about that . ’ |
| 7 | Christmas is coming and he thinks I ought to know about some little joints called Tiffany 's and Bloomingdale 's . |
| 8 | " I think he ought to know about this . " |
| 9 | You ought to know by this time that — in the language of popular fiction — he has eyes for no one but you . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ Kitty said in a carefully careless tone , ‘ There is something you ought to know before that busybody Condon gets on to you about it . ’ |
| 11 | He ought to pounce on that . |
| 12 | It might have been better for Butler to have set reason apart from the whole hierarchy of conscience , self love , benevolence , and particular passions and allotted it the role of ascribing different degrees of authority to each , that is , of saying how they ought to relate to each other mutually . |
| 13 | However , as currently drafted it does far less than it should to contribute to that solution . |
| 14 | However , as currently drafted it does far less than it should to contribute to that solution . |
| 15 | ‘ A major problem in the Scottish software industry is that its people never meet , whereas they should to learn about possible joint ventures and other ways of cooperating , ’ said Gerry Docherty , the summit 's chairman and managing director of Real Time Engineering which recently won the 1993 TickIT National Quality Award . |
| 16 | A 4-megabit chip ought to sell for five times as much as a 1-megabit device , the price premium justified by the smaller space and lower power needed to provide four times the amount of memory . |
| 17 | I said to the booties , you ought to open at eight-thirty , but oh no , we are always open , he said . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think the police ought to talk like that . ’ |
| 19 | Both Kelsen and Aquinas acknowledge the role of determination and subsumption and both regard positive law as normative in the sense that it consists of precepts intimating how men ought to behave under particular circumstances . |
| 20 | So , perhaps the reason is the loss of a love object , and then of course if you found there was a in fact a loss of a love , love object , then you might to see in greater detail , how this whole thing came about . |
| 21 | What we do know is that I M R O asked for this information in June nineteen eighty-eight and not long afterwards I M R O granted recognition to B I M and other Maxwell Companies , all the more surprising perhaps having raised the questions whether the question must come about , did they continue with their investigation , or did they let the matter drop and perhaps you might to comment in that context . |
| 22 | John Hayes , secretary-general of the Law Society , said the advantages ought to apply to all solicitors and the board should not seek to produce artificial criteria for selection . |
| 23 | This scenario is in many ways similar to Charles Handy 's Work Society , but , whereas Handy based his vision on his views about what values ought to prevail in post-industrial society , Gershuny 's picture is built up from an analysis of economic trends . |
| 24 | We now know that opinion polls are almost meaningless except as a rough guide to the sort of views that people believe they ought to express in public . |
| 25 | We are working within a straight jacket imposed by central government , but our choice was that budget , for all its faults in totality , for the fact that it was half a million less than it could be , and the budget put forward by the Labour party who had totally refused to negotiate on their budget , and therefore we ought to look at that budget in detail to see what was on offer , because it was n't very pretty . |
| 26 | Did you check their tenancy agreement , because it was a pretty Machiavellian , Dickensian tenancy agreement , if you 're found smoking in bed for example , you were out the next morning , those sort of things , and I think you really ought to look at that very carefully . |
| 27 | I do n't think we 're gon na solve it today , but what I 'm saying is did we ought to look at some sort of action plan brainstorm , call it what you will for the very near future to look at how we 're gon na tackle this problem . |
| 28 | Er , now the county really ought to look at this problem of grass growing over the pavement but the Cou Borough Council are using the shields that are not capable of cutting grass edges , grass verges . |
| 29 | So I , and , and to be honest I think that 's what we ought to do at this stage , |
| 30 | I think that 's a good point actually and that maybe target setting is sort of a training that we ought to do with all staff , I mean and I do n't know how much of that comes into this magic three hours . |