Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramsey confessed that they had done a lot of harm and ought to apologize but said that the best of them were trying to , and that the Church of England ought to apologize to the high churchmen for the way in which it sometimes treated them . |
| 2 | That 's an argument that ought to appeal to the Noble Lords opposite if nothing else does ! |
| 3 | They had , however , the ‘ duty of making such inquiry as the circumstances of the case ought to indicate to a sensible man is , without difficulty , presently practicable ’ . |
| 4 | There may well be all sorts of contributory factors which need stating but these ought to come after the full apology . |
| 5 | If some clarity of purpose and coherence of action is to take the place of this drift , the ideas and energy ought to come from the political parties because , in theory , they are supposed to provide the driving force in political development . |
| 6 | These benchmarks would indicate to teachers the things which all children ought to know at a particular stage of their development . |
| 7 | He says they ought to jump in the nearest river ! |
| 8 | I do n't know who well I do n't know whether you ought to write to the chief constable and explain the situation , all the |
| 9 | There 's one paradox here that I think can confuse people and we ought to talk about a little bit and that is the libidinal aspect . |
| 10 | We ought to focus on the practical and urgent business problems we have of managing our growth and creating a business strategy that will unite us . ’ |
| 11 | Likewise Kari Børresen notes that ( in this respect unlike Bonaventura ) ‘ Thomas does not say expressly that a priest ought to belong to the male sex because Christ , whom he represents , became incarnate in this sex . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I just think I ought to look for a useful job . |
| 13 | On 18 September , Environment Minister Chris Patten flew to Brussels for talks with Environment Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana , according to The Times still ‘ optimistic that he could head off threatened prosecution of Britain by the European Court ’ by showing that ‘ Britain was doing everything it could to comply with the European drinking water legislation . ’ |
| 14 | He described the proceedings as a " high-tech lynching for those uppity blacks who dare to deviate from the old rules . " |
| 15 | I mentioned the incident at Land 's End and was told that it was not unusual for student pilots who dare to stray into the military areas to receive a safe wingtip and tail helicopter escort home , leaving the student a gibbering wreck long after returning to the club house . |
| 16 | Her husband , looking hard at his glass , said : ‘ You ought to keep on the right side of her , any road . |
| 17 | And if we 've got the project quality plan right there should n't be any problems or queries and it did remind me of this Australian er project manager , who I 've mentioned to one or two other people over lunch , who used to sit in a great , a great office , running multimillion pounds ' project and when people came in to complain to him , he used to refer them to the plaque on the wall which said R T F C. |
| 18 | We used to go to a certain bar and sit at our favourite table , where we would be joined by a pair of bedizened harridans with dyed orange hair and chipped scarlet fingernails . |
| 19 | My daughter used to go to a lovely informal music group in a house in Northfield , and I believe there was a similar group in Moseley once . |
| 20 | I was able to talk to the German customer and the people on the floor , who are excessively worried about the number of people coming in from the East , not only East Germany but they 're very , very worried about people coming in from Eastern Europe , and secondly there was so much East European food that was for sale in Germany at very low prices and there 's food that used to go to the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | I used to go to the Botanical Gardens and sit in the sun , or wander round the aviaries admiring the birds of magnificent plumage . |
| 22 | After school , I used to go to the familiar places in the forest of my village . |
| 23 | Well he , he , he used to go to er used to go to the British Legion , every Sunday morning . |
| 24 | Charles and James used to go to the national conferences and there meet other like-minded ‘ wets ’ concerned about the right-wing drift to Thatcherism . |
| 25 | When he was in work , and then sh we used to go to the local butcher 's shop on a Saturday night , with the old bag , six o'clock Saturday night to Mr 's . |
| 26 | On Sunday afternoons , because our parents would not let us go out unaccompanied in the evenings , we used to go to the local cinema , which was also the theatre . |
| 27 | Well to jump on the bandwagon I used to go to the same school as Batts and although he 's a couple of years older than I am one of my friends sisters used to beat him up . |
| 28 | And I used to go to the Methodist Chapel that was opposite the school , there . |
| 29 | she used to go to an old person 's home of a night time you know |
| 30 | We used to go through the high street years before motor cars come out . |