Example sentences of "[vb mod] to be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know what we ought to be looking for — a high , lonely place with dry soil , where rabbits can see and hear all round and men hardly ever come . |
| 2 | procedures which are , do n't quite fit you , then I think what we ought to be looking for is a certain amount of common ground between your procedure and our procedure , so there is not something , you 're doing something completely different to the way the rest of us are doing it . |
| 3 | Head : ‘ Had we ought to be looking for courses to send you on ? ’ |
| 4 | What we ought to be aiming for is more localised revolved estate management . |
| 5 | Although the plan has been superimposed over an existing plan , erm , to be charitable it 's at best confusing , erm , my feeling is that in actual fact the plan there does n't actually show us , well enough , and you may consider that we ought to be asking for a much clearer plan before we make a decision . |
| 6 | In the same way lovers and connoisseurs of beauty are what everyone else is , or ought to be working for , on Moore 's scheme . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ They can get stuck by this fear that they ought to be planning for the future . |