Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] to be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it , it need n't necessarily be erm the kind of direct material gain in terms of well we need to go beyond rent reduction because rent reduction is not , has n't given us enough , because in theory rent reduction ought to be giving you as much you need . |
| 2 | Beyond that , the White Paper Better Services for the Mentally III ( 1975 ) also set out rates of provision which health and local authorities ought to be aiming to achieve For ‘ oughtness ’ could be read council discretion about what priorities they had for the distribution of ‘ new moneys ’ . |
| 3 | Although erm his second idea second way of limiting the possibilities on is rather more difficult to accept now and his claim is that we should n't pay members of parliament , that people who go to parliament ought to be doing it out of duty and not out of er interest . |
| 4 | While , as stated , some of the concepts used now have their origins in the nineteenth century and earlier , there were nevertheless different views taken of how far the courts ought to be reviewing tribunals and other inferior bodies . |
| 5 | The substantive limits which the courts ought to be imposing on the exercise of discretion is a complex question which can not be answered merely by dwelling upon individual cases . |
| 6 | Gradually , through several cycles of modification and response , there emerged a style embodying an image of what the European consumers thought the Indian manufactures ought to be making for themselves . |
| 7 | the industry ought to be spending £310 million a year to maintain the system in its existing state . |
| 8 | Strategy and tactics ought to be preoccupying the leadership rather than this simple advance . |
| 9 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , thumping the car down into second to slow up at the traffic lights , ‘ a journalist ought to be specializing by the time he 's forty . |
| 10 | Is one of the matters to which the inspectors ought to be applying their mind whether or not this land is more appropriately regarded as countryside or part of the village ? |
| 11 | Is one of the matters to which the inspectors ought to be applying their mind Would development of the site these sites amount to encroachment into the countryside ? |
| 12 | The kids used to be standing there one time — well , we hit them a few times with the cape and it had a bottle in it . |
| 13 | This is what I call the strategy of non-decision , the decision that we will do nothing , that we wo n't harass the child , that we will give the child time to relax and move at his own pace , rather than determining the pace that we feel the child ought to be following . |
| 14 | The further question of where now theology ought to be going was one he was less equipped to tackle . |
| 15 | Just about the time when a nome ought to be taking it easy . |
| 16 | Finch , however , denounced the 1300 perambulation as ‘ false and erroneous ’ , and coerced the Grand Jury and Forest officers into returning a verdict ‘ that the Meetes and Boundes of the Forrest of Deane ought to be according to the Perambulations made ’ in 1228 and 1282 . |
| 17 | I am not a councillor nor politician whose job ought to be sorting out this dilemma . |
| 18 | Taking your point that chemistry at university is a privileged subject in so far as that the equipment available is more sophisticated , more expense , more accurate , possibly , surely universities ought to be doing something to help kids in schools ? |
| 19 | There are two things that governments ought to be doing . |
| 20 | Thus , using the distinction between mechanistic and organic organisations we can argue that insofar as we live in an uncertain world where political consensus is not guaranteed and economic stability is not assured then our public sector organisations ought to be moving more towards an organic , and away from , a mechanistic structure . |
| 21 | Taking into account all the adjustments , we can see that the bank bond ought to be trading at 5.61 lower than or at a yield to maturity of 1.14 per cent higher than the comparable government bond . |
| 22 | So many famous families used to be living here . |
| 23 | Perhaps he has forgotten that his lord ought to be murdering his lady just at this juncture ; or perhaps he thinks Emilia is as corrupt as himself ; or perhaps he does not understand love , The error is great , since Emilia is the only person who knows the truth about the handkerchief . |
| 24 | However , Mill was against a secret ballot , Mill thought votes ought to be cast publicly and the reason for this is that he thought people ought to be voting on their view of what is right and so therefore they ought to be publicly accountable . |
| 25 | Regions ought to be looking to the future and planning the replacement of major mental illness hospitals . |
| 26 | Any tenderness between the two of them would be a sham as far as he was concerned , merely serving to emphasise the absence of love , and perhaps like her he felt that a relationship characterised by so much other feeling ought to be loving as well , that the depth of desire he felt for her should have been merely a facet of love instead of the whole . |
| 27 | ‘ If you will excuse me , ’ she said politely — no single woman ought to be talking alone with a man at nearly midnight — ‘ I will collect a new candle from the kitchen and retire again . ’ |
| 28 | The Data Protection Registrar , in publicising a closing date of May 1986 for the receipt of registrations , had no idea how many data users ought to be registering ; in the event the flow of registrations was far slower than had been hoped , but by the end of 1986 it was clear that the higher guesses were more likely to be right . |
| 29 | Questions relating to the way teachers perform their tasks can readily be translated into statements about what teachers ought to be doing ! |
| 30 | That 's what you scientists ought to be doing , improving food production , and finding ways to colonize the planets and the moon , instead of messing about with people and the children they have . |