Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOREMAN : ‘ Holyfield ought to be scared because the only person that can stop Lewis winning the title now is Lewis . |
| 2 | If so , this November 's mayoral election ought to be timely . |
| 3 | That Elections of Members of Parliament ought to be free . |
| 4 | Figure 1.1 on page 4 drew attention to six qualities which the whole of the curriculum ought to be encouraging . |
| 5 | To break the circle someone has to decide , by making a value-judgment , whether or not any particular function ought to be subject to public law . |
| 6 | Everybody agrees that accounts ought to be useful . |
| 7 | Some will say that , when there is doubt whether an apparent refusal of consent is valid in circumstances of urgent necessity , the decision of a doctor acting in good faith ought to be conclusive . |
| 8 | Dragons ought to be big and green and clawed and exotic and firebreathing — big and green with long sharp … |
| 9 | Well I think that schools ought to be open . |
| 10 | But such a future , Eliot wrote , was not one in which he or his readers ought to be interested . |
| 11 | Where a party can only be liable if negligent , a clause such as that in White v Warwick ought to be enough to protect against liability , even if parallel liability for failure to take reasonable care could be imposed in tort and contract ( Alderslade v Hendon Laundry Ltd [ 1945 ] KB 189 ) . |
| 12 | Pension funds ought to be immune from the performance of the company to which they relate , so that employees ' pensions are safeguarded even if the company is experiencing difficulties . |
| 13 | The citizen ought to be able to find the basic law , the principal law , in statutory form . |
| 14 | Classification of functions fell into disrepute because the classifications were often applied mechanically and without it being asked whether judicial review ought to be available , or whether the rules of natural justice ought to apply as a matter of fairness or policy . |
| 15 | The pull 's fairly heavy , but someone with your shoulders ought to be able to manage . ’ |
| 16 | The Phoenix used to be such a good pub . |
| 17 | Psychologism , through its influence in marriage guidance and churches , and also through its effects in the world of work — in personnel management , for example — is able to link the two spheres in a way religion used to be able to do but can not do any longer . |
| 18 | erm she was hefty though and her sister Ann used to be enormous years ago this is , and erm she went on a , a diet , I do n't know what , how , how she lost the weight but she did and I , I had n't seen her for some years and I remember her coming to the factory this day , and she came in and she , she used to do er her flower shop , she used to do flower arrangements and the girls at work would order them you know ? |
| 19 | Life insurers used to be able to show any profit from selling a bond in the year in which they traded it . |
| 20 | Winter injection used to be popular , until experts found that wet soil often did n't absorb the slurry properly and increased the danger of run-off . |
| 21 | Did , did the racecourse used to be busy ? |
| 22 | I think the hon. Lady ought to be clear about what she means by assistance . |
| 23 | Magnetic materials made up of nanocrystals ought to be better because their magnetism can be switched on and off more swiftly . |
| 24 | The second supposition is ideological , that ownership ought to be individual . |
| 25 | They accepted that the state had a duty to uphold morality and that private morality ought to be subject to the law as it affected society . |
| 26 | Again he follows Aristotle in believing that each child ought to be male and that a female is the result of misadventure . |
| 27 | taking out loans and borrowing and I do n't think that this County Council ought to be defensive in the slightest about having a tool such as borrowing available to us in terms of financial management . |
| 28 | Now this may sound like fatuous bluster but suspicion of businessmen ought to be understandable in an era of commerce made squalid by stock-market muggings on a grand scale . |
| 29 | ( These two functions ought to be separate . |
| 30 | The grazing question ought to be one of firm public policy , stated from the top . |