Example sentences of "we [modal v] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While non-evangelicals and atheists might agree that there have been historically specific benefits from Protestantism , and that we ought to preserve such benefits , the evangelical adds a more direct link with the belief that God will punish us if we deviate further from his commands . |
| 2 | Here we ought to stress that evolution is not spurred simplistically on by ‘ random mutation ’ , as the Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins points out in his book The Blind Watchmaker . |
| 3 | We ought to leave this place at once . |
| 4 | ‘ We ought to go straight back by the paths . |
| 5 | I do n't know if there 's anything on tomorrow Maybe we ought to go this evening if she 's there to work . |
| 6 | We ought to take that serious danger into account . |
| 7 | I suppose we ought to take all this seriously , as a searing analysis of the plight of trans-sexuals , but the play 's mixture of pretentiousness , bathos and screaming melodrama becomes increasingly hard to stomach . |
| 8 | Er , if people have any questions on individual presentations then I think we ought to take those questions while the group is up here . |
| 9 | Erm , I suppose we ought to say welcome to the Health Service , Mick . |
| 10 | I 'm wondering whether we ought to do that with trainees anyway . |
| 11 | The real world has long left behind the age when old so-and-so could decide ‘ I rather like this slogan ’ or ‘ My constituents think we ought to do such and such ’ without that ‘ feeling ’ being backed up by professional research and experience . |
| 12 | We ought to do more modern work at drama school , as well as the classics . |
| 13 | But I do n't think we ought to do this for every course . |
| 14 | As they left the restaurant , Stella said , ‘ We ought to do this again some time . |
| 15 | I think we had better try and influence that as churches not that we should about the suffering that goes on about the death that goes on , but I think we ought to give all this another dimension in churches . |
| 16 | Again erm perhaps we ought to refer one , one of the still rather good stuff on this is from er , is from Thompson 's book . |
| 17 | I think we ought to sort that out |
| 18 | I mean for this market research one , we ought to finish this tonight because if she comes tomorrow |
| 19 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 20 | ‘ Then perhaps we ought to recruit young ladies into the police force , ’ Morton said , straight-faced . |
| 21 | So I think these are two very , very valid reasons why we ought to ban all forms of tobacco advertising . |
| 22 | I think we ought to remove that list . |
| 23 | I was just going to make a quick comment if I may on Oxfam , because I noticed that they 're down for the street collections and for the flag day , now next year 's their fiftieth anniversary , so I think it 's quite appropriate next year , but I do , my own view is , that we will get , we ought to get one comprehensive list of all these organisations , for both the street collections and the flag days , with an indication in the column of whether it 's flag day they 've gone for or a street collection , so that we can identify that sort of situation . |
| 24 | ‘ I think there are a couple of things we ought to get straight , ’ she said with some determination . |
| 25 | ‘ I think there are a few things we ought to get straight , ’ he said coolly . |
| 26 | ‘ He ought to have some painkillers , ’ said Phil , ‘ and we ought to get some fluids into him . |
| 27 | I think we ought to get some kip . |
| 28 | That is a lie actually I think we ought to get this straight |
| 29 | Ursula thinks that every weekend we ought to produce some really useful work . |
| 30 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |