Example sentences of "and [pron] ought to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've told you all I know and I ought to be getting back — I 've lost two hours of work as it is . ’ |
| 2 | Having explained that his Communism was an aspect of his campaign for black equality he thundered at the committee : ‘ You are the non-patriots , you are the UnAmericans and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves . ’ |
| 3 | So it 's , if you 're in , you 've still got to think about security and you ought to be locking your doors , if you can . |
| 4 | In turn , we press our point and say , ‘ But it 's a cow , and this is a very simple word , and you ought to be able to understand it . ’ |
| 5 | A decent blouse and skirt , or an attractive frock , either outfit worn with a clean straw boater , and she ought to be able to get a job in a store . |
| 6 | Everyone has a right to expect her to be predictable ( however trying things are ) and she ought to be worried and apologetic if she behaves strangely . |
| 7 | We are only two of us now and we ought to be closer . |
| 8 | It was clever of humankind to invent science and art to supply the deficiencies of nature , and we ought to be proud . |
| 9 | After all , British taxpayers are picking up the £60 million bill and we ought to be told a lot more about why it happened and why so much damage was caused . |
| 10 | But erm I th they are worried certainly , one or two of them are worried , but er some of this equipment is left on , and left on unnecessarily and we ought to be encouraging people to switch off what is n't |
| 11 | Social work help should be provided on a similar basis , and there ought to be continuity of care after discharge . |
| 12 | you know I just keep thinking the stuff 's on the way round and there ought to be some way of doing it , but I , you know , I mean maybe Brian 's idea of the , the , the organizations in the ci ci but that does n't help me you know with a , with a |
| 13 | Most will be adults , and there ought to be two discrete year classes smaller than those . |
| 14 | ‘ There 's plenty of room up here for me to stay quite comfortably and there ought to be someone on hand to milk the cows , however bad the weather . ’ |
| 15 | Another neglected master emerged on three LPs of Piano Sonatas by Harold Truscott , played , as in the Founds , by the indefatigable peter Jacobs ; they revealed a muscial thinker of a very high order who has been , and still is , cruelly ignored by the muscial establishment ( again , I understand that John Ogdon 's recording for Altarus of Truscott 's Tenth is due for release soon — and I would also make a plea for a re-issue of those other Sonatas on CD : they are contrapuntal masterpieces , sometimes witty , often beautiful , and they ought to be much more widely known ) . |
| 16 | On the one hand , educationalists have argued that segregation of handicapped pupils is wrong and they ought to be taught in ordinary schools , albeit with special lessons and equipment provided , in order that they do not lose touch with ordinary children . |
| 17 | Those are words which could be used to describe the righteousness of Paul ; and they ought to be appropriate for us too . |
| 18 | You must give the exact critical values , right , if those critical values that you are using to compare with the regressionally significant whether you have serial correlation or not erm so they 're very very important and they ought to be included erm because otherwise we do n't know whether a test statistic is er statistically significant or not . |
| 19 | Ramsay was in two minds as to whether it was wise to allow himself to be bottled up in the town when his place arguably was with the Regent ; but he decided that he might possibly play a more useful part here as Seton 's assistant — and he ought to be able to escape by boat , at night , if necessary . |
| 20 | And he ought to be terribly concerned about the acid rain that 's falling on Europe as well as what 's happening |
| 21 | Soon someone will have to say boo to this goose fattened up for foie gras , and it ought to be someone British . |
| 22 | I 'm not all that religious , I reckon you can be good without goin' to Church , and that , but I know wickedness when I see it , and it ought to be put a stop to . ’ |
| 23 | The road continued past the cottages so there must be something down there and it ought to be the common itself . |
| 24 | I was stiff and he was supple , and it ought to be the other way round . |
| 25 | But we all have our own ideas about the answers to these big questions and it ought to be left to the discretion of class teachers to allow their pupils to learn about life 's problems in their own time and at their own pace . |
| 26 | relationship , I mean do set up , I mean , if you get into , if you establish relations with me then it 's an ongoing thing , it can be , and it ought to be , so you actually do see the same people over a period of time , and you do establish a modicum of trust , not entire trust , because it 's asking too much for entire trust in all circumstances , but at least there is a certain understanding , particularly with the , on the , on the local basis . |
| 27 | Even the SRHE/Leverhulme enquiry carried out during the early 1980s was arguably weakest on the curriculum , and although the Society has organized conferences on curricular issues ( most recently that on Education for the Professions ; Goodlad 1984 ) , it has not attempted to tackle the overall questions of what is taught and what ought to be taught . |
| 28 | The simplest definition of the curriculum is ‘ what is taught ’ ( Taylor and Richards 1985 , p. 2 ) and the study of the curriculum is concerned with what is taught ( description ) and what ought to be taught ( prescription ) . |
| 29 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |