Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [adv] to be " in BNC.

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1 ( a ) The meaning of description If goods sold by description are defined in terms of being identified or earmarked , then in the case of a contract for the sale of specific goods , non-correspondence with description ought logically to be impossible since s61(1) of SGA 1979 defines " specific goods " as including those identified and agreed upon at the time of the contract of sale .
2 If it were , our decision ought obviously to be amenable to appeal .
3 Most importantly , this response ought sensibly to be in line with current market trends : financial diversification , the breaking down of barriers , and the consequent growth of integrated financial houses .
4 " Since we 're engaging in histrionics , I believe your response ought now to be " By God , you swine , you 'll pay for this " . "
5 If the death penalty did deter , then so distinctive and so dramatic is the sanction that its effect ought also to be too marked to overlook or dispute .
6 But moral indignation ought principally to be reserved for ourselves .
7 ( e ) there was widespread agreement amongst those who opposed the proposal , that a solicitor who wished to act in the circumstances outlined in the question ought nevertheless to be under an obligation to disclose to the lender any personal , family or employee interests attaching to the transaction which might give rise to a conflict .
8 The team must never to be stretched and when we press forward that also means the goalkeeper .
9 Timbers affected by wet rot need only to be dried out , or cut out and replaced with sound timbers , and so long as the source of wetting is removed and air allowed to circulate , the rot will not recur .
10 It could be argued , therefore , that good education ought always to be based on multi-cultural principles .
11 She believed that private medicine ought not to coexist by the side of the Health Service ; or perhaps more fairly , that if it did exist it should not derive any benefits from the Health Service , and that none of the resources of the Service ought properly to be available to private practitioners .
12 Shooting a known man-eater used always to be done by attracting it to fresh meat , until it was discovered that a ripe durian is a much stronger lure .
13 After attending Mrs. Scaler 's funeral , Green writes ‘ the mind and the body , to produce good and prevent evil ought constantly to be engaged in such pursuits as are consistent with future prospects of happiness ’ .
14 Held ( 1 ) that the public interest in preserving confidentiality underlying the particular implied undertaking by B. added little if anything to the public interest which gave rise to the basic claim of public interest immunity attaching to the authority 's documents ; so that , if that immunity ought properly to be overridden in the light of countervailing public interest arising , that countervailing interest would also outweigh such limited value as still attached to B. 's implied undertaking ( post , pp. 926H — 927A ) .
15 If that immunity ought properly to be overridden in light of the countervailing public interest arising , then in our view that countervailing interest will outweigh too such limited value as still attaches to the implied undertaking .
16 The children 's choice ought therefore to be respected .
17 A word ought here to be said about supernovae , since they play a crucial role in the creation of planets and of life itself .
18 The perambulators swore that Henry II had afforested the whole of Huntingdonshire , with the exception of the demesne hays of Weybridge , Sapley and Harthay ; the county ought therefore to be disafforested , except those hays and the king 's demesne woods of Brampton and Alconbury .
19 Aspiring entrants to the profession need therefore to be aware of sociolinguistic variations that are related to a speaker 's sex , the role of gender in language and the possible social implications of both , particularly in classrooms .
20 The company ought therefore to be able to form a reasonable view on the price obtained .
21 And erm , on the er , item twenty five , might there be an opportunity , with the agreement that we 're going to deal with in item D are n't we , er , with the social serv with the er , health authority , are under suspicion that a lot of the er , personal care we offer through that system ought really to be offered by district nurses , erm , and I wonder whether that 's erm , can we , perhaps we can not establish that .
22 Our system used indeed to be described as ‘ a national system , locally administered ’ .
23 The decision that Shakespeare faced hundreds of times — whether to put his words , as Dryden expressed it , into verse or into ‘ the other harmony of prose ’ — is one that the reader ought always to be alert to , for each decision signals an element of dramatic meaning that we can yet recover .
24 Putting it another way , movement of goods , services and so forth across the English Channel ought ideally to be no different to movement from England to Wales .
25 The problem is determining where the balance ought properly to be drawn .
26 Reginald Bray , who was associated with the settlement movement in Camberwell , even seemed to doubt whether the youths needed to sleep , describing in 1904 how they would stay out on the streets ‘ until it is dark , and often in summer until dawn begins to break … the street and not the house ought probably to be regarded as the home ’ .
27 It then considered whether the agreement ought properly to be exempted under Art 85(3) .
28 However , those that are similar to the ones in your own language need also to be practised .
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