Example sentences of "it [vb mod] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It ought to be easy enough . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If you 've done it right it ought to be four thousand three hundred and three pounds and fifty pence . |
| 3 | The Sports Council will await Universiade GB 's concurrence with the deal before nominating their man , but it ought to be one of their members with business acumen — which means either David Simon of BP , who is most unlikely to have the time , Raymond Michel , formerly with a distillery , or Norman Jacobs , a partner in one of Britain 's largest firms of solicitors . |
| 4 | There is a standard lie for each club , but for a short person it ought to be one or two degrees flatter . |
| 5 | Probably having keys would bee greeted with horror by some , but it ought to be possible to rationalise the finger holes . |
| 6 | If I understand him aright , it ought to be possible to show that Descartes ' stripping away of the ‘ accidental ’ qualities of objects is illegitimate , because based on a series of elisions of meaning between one use of an expression and another where the two expressions look the same but have different meanings . |
| 7 | It ought to be possible to get to a position where we can say with regard to a specific query : ‘ These are the most inherently valuable sources available worldwide ‘ about ’ that subject . ’ |
| 8 | On those grounds it ought to be possible to argue that , if a trust has been created , it is actionable if the standard of care shown by the fathers was adequate in the judgment of a good man . |
| 9 | With so many variable factors , it ought to be possible to provide a ‘ fit ’ to almost any curve ; the interesting point of the study is whether or not the scale factors put into the equations seem to be saying anything that would lead to an elucidation of the influences at work . |
| 10 | As you indicated , it ought to be possible to let unsold units in the normal way , and even to let owners ' units on an agency basis . |
| 11 | However it ought to be possible to bring the reasons for it out into the light , and by doing so to show that whatever may be said of Tolkien 's view of reality , it was neither escapist nor thoughtless . |
| 12 | It ought to be possible to tell within the next few weeks whether the measures the government has introduced over the past year are delivering the hoped-for results . |
| 13 | It ought to be possible for the teacher at this stage to spot skill weaknesses , and to introduce activities designed to remedy them — activities of which the children can see the point . |
| 14 | It is in fact a movement : a coming together of teachers whose common conviction it is that teaching up to now has been conducted in far too random and amateurish a fashion , based at best on a kind of inspired guesswork , and that it ought to be possible by putting our minds to it , and applying the sort of thinking that is successful in other fields , to do a better job than before . |
| 15 | By asking such questions it ought to be possible to begin to address systematically some of the sources of organizational diversity which both modernity and postmodernity present to us in their many authentic ways , rather than trying to push them all into a limited number of boxes made to a dominant pattern . |
| 16 | it ought to be possible for partners to disagree on specifics while remaining allied in general terms and often working together in many fields . |
| 17 | What I 'm suggesting is that it ought to be possible to design an inner northern relief road with an appropriate junction and with appropriate traffic managements in the centre of Harrogate so that you can encourage a significant proportion of the traffic that would otherwise have used the western relief road to divert to the southern bypass and inner relief road . |
| 18 | My Lords , I , I do realise and I have to be satisfied with that erm and I shall do my best , but if I could just make my absolutely clear , simple proposition that I was seeking to perform is that if you are seeking to amend the law i i it ought to be possible for those who are seeking to understand the Government 's intentions to find out relatively easily what the law is and I suggest it 's very far from easy and even if you get to it , it 's not at all easy to understand . |
| 19 | ‘ I think in any rural town it ought to be possible to find an hour or so to stroll round , just to talk to people about this and that . |
| 20 | It ought to be self-evident , but perhaps is not , that schools differ sharply from each other , as do colleges . |
| 21 | I think that it ought to be self-evident , erm if we 've done our programme in a way which er , is clear or if we 've presented it in a clear fashion , then I think sequence and clashes er and safety , to a large extent , become self-evident . |
| 22 | Since it can not be accountable to national Parliaments , it ought to be accountable to the European Parliament . |
| 23 | I reckon it ought to be compulsory that . |
| 24 | Well anybody over forty years old it ought to be , it ought to be compulsory ! |
| 25 | It ought to be familiar . |
| 26 | You were the one who said it ought to be eight o'clock . |
| 27 | Did in fact with the Greater York districts initially take a view that it ought to be eight miles . |
| 28 | But , if a reference is given , it ought to be accurate . |
| 29 | I still got this little housewife feeling that it ought to be ready when you come in the door you know . |
| 30 | ‘ It ought to be smoked salmon and champagne for her , ’ said Peter . |