Sentence examples for if it ought to from inspiring English sources

Besides, the protocol seemed as if it ought to work".

Like the eclipse, this was an occasion that seemed as if it ought to be more profound than it was.

"Mindfulness" sounds as if it ought to mean fastidiousness, but it's recently been taken as a psycho-spiritual imperative.

WHEN discussing the airline business, Michael Boyd uses the term "raw, naked economics" as if it ought to be followed by a shriek off a movie screen.

A lot of it sounds as if it ought to be on the television page, in an article on a new daytime soap opera.

"A Night at the Tombs," a solo show by the transgender performer Bianca Leigh about the time she spent a night in the Manhattan Detention Complex, sounds as if it ought to be spunky or scandalous.

There is no uniform agreement about this, although often the Chisholm Paradox is characterized so that both 2) and 3) above would have the same superficial form ("if …, then it ought to be that…"), with the deontic term appearing in the second clause.

If so, it ought to be good news for skilled, out-of-work engineers like Mr. Friedman, the Texas software designer, who remains eager to work on innovative new projects.

And if so it ought to be vetted or sanctioned by the appropriate administrative agency or by the judiciary.

Ideally, they should not be alone together, or if they are it ought to be in a public place -- a Friendly's, say -- where liquor is not served and where they are unlikely to give in to temptation.

And I hereby resolve to be a little bolder over the next 12 months with my predictions — because if nothing else, it ought to make next year's iteration of this post awfully entertaining.