Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] ought to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most primary schools certain teachers have , or can acquire , special strengths which ought to be made available , on a rational division of labour , to children outside their class and to their colleagues . |
| 2 | English court procedure at present gives no rights of intervention to third parties ; and it might be argued that if they were significantly extended , this would increase even further the role of the courts in resolving disputes which ought to be settled by political , not legal , means . |
| 3 | I affirm it to have been a fine active stock of books which ought to be available in any good library service … |
| 4 | I said " the words he ought to be able to spell " . |
| 5 | Not just truth-telling , but sincerity ; not just intelligibility , but empathy ; these are values which ought to be taken on board . |
| 6 | It enables a voice to be given to interest groups which ought to be heard and , possibly , even exercise influence but which otherwise would lack a sufficient say in the affairs of the nation . |
| 7 | In summary , we can say that public law rules and principles ( including the rules of judicial review ) ought to apply to the exercise ( or non-exercise ) of public functions ; and that public functions are functions which ought to be subject to public law controls . |
| 8 | They can help to identify which companies you ought to be looking at , they may have a database of relevant information , and if you are looking at information-gathering from a number of companies they can save you time and effort if they do the legwork . |
| 9 | And what use is it to provide more and more high-performance cultural facilities ( an unpleasing phrase ) if the artists who ought to be benefiting from them are lacking ? |
| 10 | You have needs which ought to be filled and — ’ |
| 11 | Chicherin believed not only that serfdom was immoral but also that it was acting as a brake on the economy , that it could not be justified as a bastion against pauperism , and finally — a somewhat unusual argument — that it entailed the improper transference to the gentry of responsibilities which ought to be exercised by the state . |
| 12 | After 16 years you ought to be fluent in the language and , if you make this a priority now , you 'll be enhancing this phase of your life instead of simply waiting for it to pass . |
| 13 | There 's a lot of emphasis these days about individuals growing as individuals , but are you really saying that because women are obviously individuals they ought to be given the opportunity of growing in a way that they could only do if they had jobs ? |
| 14 | I think , therefore , that as Anglicans we ought to be affirming more confidently than we usually do the freedom this gives to the mind , the heart and the body to be an integrated whole . |
| 15 | The way I see it — if I had saved the world from a lot of boring belly dancers I ought to be congratulated . |
| 16 | When this is translated into personal terms , it means among other things that at some point in his or her career a teacher will have to look at its pattern and will have to pay attention to changes which ought to be made in his or her work-role . |
| 17 | He said , ‘ It is possible to bypass the censor which normally filters the impulses deriving from our subconscious , and let out things which ought to be kept in . |
| 18 | The problem is that there is no satisfactory way of drawing a line between decisions of corporate managers which ought to be respected because they are based solely on the expertise of the directors and those which should be challenged as based on personal considerations or other non-corporate purposes . |
| 19 | Yes , you 're comparative performances as investigators will , well even that should n't differ all that much because those that have got Sarah available to them those are the teams who ought to be capable of concentrating more on their stage two work , should n't they ? |
| 20 | This was an insensitive remark , and Ayling shamed her by suggesting that the things one ought to be able to do were often impossible . |
| 21 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 22 | There 's been quite a lot of discussion recently about how many parent governors or parent managers there ought to be in a , in the school system . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But that 's his ‘ sic ’ , not mine — I deny all responsibility — so by rights it ought to be in square brackets instead . |
| 25 | The arguments which ought to be used by each side to explain why they support or reject these provisions are set out opposite . |
| 26 | If the students are workers , for instance , not raw material , then it makes sense to ask what products they ought to be producing and for whom ; it is possible to work back from this to a process for delivering those products . |
| 27 | Now in this particular period if you were looking at these figures just like this , what would be your automatic reaction in terms of the type of holidays we ought to be providing ? |
| 28 | Simple measures such as keeping doors and windows closed , providing adequate containers for odorous material , covering the contents , refrigeration where necessary and the careful disposal of odorous or potentially odorous waste , are just a few preventative measures which ought to be taken in all trades , but particularly so in the animal byproduct industry , where putrescible matter is concerned . |
| 29 | And it 's a very different matter if you can start tracing sexual spider 's webs that link fabulous-looking women with men who ought to be unrelated : secretaries of state on the one hand and ( say ) drug-dealers , gun-runners , con-men , terrorists or Russian spies on the other . |
| 30 | Yeah , I think when it comes to bearing selection issues we ought to be clear in which direction we 're going in , now , it 's in our interests at the moment , as we 're unable to produce a larger series of airings in the U K or in Europe , to steer them away from those sort of design , but it seems also to be fairly clear that demands for packaging and compact design for steering gear , tend to be favouring the =mote , remote valve arrangement , therefore putting a considerable advantage |