Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The letter which he valued most came from the leader of English theology , who was now Archbishop of York , William Temple : ‘ Men ought to acknowledge their major obligations , and so I write to thank you ... ’ |
| 2 | It may well be that there are good reasons for following customary practices or for rejecting them in favour of new ones , but teachers ought to know what these reasons are , for it is this knowledge which provides for adaptability , the alternative realization of principles through techniques appropriate to different instructional settings . |
| 3 | I know I 'm in my mid thirties and ought to know my own mind by now , but I 'm scared of the commitment . |
| 4 | She wrote to him quite sharply , not caring who read her letter , that : — it is impossible for me to post a gun as you ought to know you foolish man for what would the post office officials think were I to turn up with a gun to send ? |
| 5 | This is not the place for a proper discussion of Empson 's views , which like a great deal of British work are more concerned with critical method than with theory ( he wrote ( 1950 : 594 ) that ‘ a critic ought to trust his own nose , like the hunting dog , and if he lets any kind of theory or principle distract him from that , he is not doing his work ’ ) . |
| 6 | ‘ You ought to try it one day . ’ |
| 7 | Yet her household , instead of doing what they might to ease her last days , were not merely neglectful , but downright cruel . |
| 8 | Stevenson , likely to jostle only with Jimmy Kirkwood as Garvey 's Player-of-the-year , ought to win his first Ulster senior cap against Munster on Friday night . |
| 9 | The Hasteds no doubt did what they could to help their bereaved sister , though their best turned out to be insufficient to save her as time went by . |
| 10 | He had come to his sister Elizabeth 's rescue in her time of trouble , contributing almost beyond the call of duty ; he had already done what he could to help his young nephew Robert — now what of Benjamin ? |
| 11 | Individuals in the party and the government came to use the situation in whatever way they could to optimize their own position , ranging from exercising the increased power which district and regional officials now had over the citizenry , to carrying out routine tasks perfunctorily while acquiring a significant income from black market activities . |
| 12 | Being in a position of absolute power , Mussolini did every thing he could to ensure his continuing popularity by constructing autostrade , electrifying railways and making the trains run on time , as well as by such elaborate schemes as draining the Ponrine Marshes , previously infested by malarial mosquitoes , and reclaiming them for agriculture . |
| 13 | She made herself breathe through her mouth as slowly as she could to hush her own sounds , and inhaled the odours of the earth with her own warm respiration . |
| 14 | When the kite is launched on a fully paid-out line , it will soar to height where a few diligent shakes ought to detach our little friend , not forgetting the golden rule of anchoring the static line somehow so that the parachute deploys ! |
| 15 | So you really ought to give it some thought . |
| 16 | If you have n't , then , you ought to phone your local beat officer and get him to come along and give you a survey |
| 17 | but that ought to satisfy my Noble Friend and I should have thought , but I agree with him , in in the general point that it is very much more easy when these bills are consolidated and they do end up in one consolidated act . |
| 18 | But I used to like my little Hillman Imp . |
| 19 | the way he used to slide his folded rule |
| 20 | We took up the coathanger as our symbol — one of the grim tools women used to induce their own abortions before the operation was legalized — and we vowed that no more women should die , become maimed or made permanently sterile as a result of trying to get an abortion . |
| 21 | This sequence of events is already prefigured in a claim made by Schiller that he used to conceive his own poetry in and through a " musical mood " . |
| 22 | Barbosa there used to meet him most afternoons in the bullrings in Spain . |
| 23 | So I used to encourage his own poetry , and his ideas for poetic themes , even when I knew they were poor or did not interest me . |
| 24 | ‘ My poor old mother used to caress my little cock when bathing or undressing me . |
| 25 | The Guv'nor used to brew his own beer in those days as most people did . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I used to have the impression that I should feel almost privileged to work at certain big-name establishments when I saw the size of my pay packet , and I never used to know my general manager . |
| 27 | He must have then done some painting on Mr. Bellersis ' work as there are two more references to his colouring and finishing the colouring for Mr. Bellersis Also , when in London he used to visit his former teacher John Landseer and also mentioned going with him to see plates , ‘ and compositor printer at work ’ . |
| 28 | His mother used to visit his older brother Simon and make a bit of a fuss of him but she totally blanked Nick and he was hurt . |
| 29 | And another bloke that used to drink his own Number One . " |
| 30 | ROS : ( Flaring ) I have n't forgotten — how I used to remember my own name — and yours , oh yes ! |