Sentence examples for ought to have read from inspiring English sources

Saatchi tried an automatic translation service, but the results were spotty: a section that ought to have read "New Art from China," for instance, was interpreted as "New Art from Porcelain".

It appeared to bolster the administration's case that Bush had served, but had been ripped where it ought to have read "Bush, George W", leaving only a mysterious "W" floating untethered in white space.

When I asked various English literature lecturers at the Scottish university whose classes I occasionally attended why there was no room for Burns in the spine of the course – Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge and Shelley – I was told that, if I'd wanted to study him I ought to have read Scottish literature a few doors along.

In a survey for the BBC, one in four of us admitted to lying about books we think we ought to have read – usually because we don't want to be left out of the conversation or want to seem more intelligent.

Nothing puts me off the concept of parenthood like knowing I have to wake up early and take some snotty child to a school every day, and when I get there some cunt with a power complex tells me there are some unimportant rules about where I can park my car, and if you could just sit here for a minute sir while I get my supervisor, we did send you a letter, you really ought to have read it.

— Sasha Weiss At the suggestion of a colleague, I picked up William Maxwell's "So Long, See You Tomorrow," which first appeared in The New Yorker in two parts in 1979, and for me, falls into that category one semi-secretly curates: Books I Really Ought To Have Read Already.

"The man who said the pen was mightier than the sword ought to have tried reading 'The Mill on the Floss' to Motor Mechanics," Mr. Sharpe's antihero observes dourly in his first outing, "Wilt," published in Britain in 1976.

Time and again, Republicans who came to Congress using hashtags like #ReadTheBill were happy to vote for a beginning-of-the-year bipartisan spending deal ― a fiscal year that was supposed to have begun on Oct. 1, mind you ― and they dismissed arguments that lawmakers and the public ought to have time to read the legislation before it gets a vote.

"Any application requesting an extension of time before Mr. Selebi could present himself to a correctional facility, ought to have been brought before court," read a statement issued by the Justice Department spokesman, Tlali Tlali.

(Lupia jokes that horse-race polls ought to have a warning label that reads "For entertainment purposes only").

For starters, the indispensability argument can be made to work with P1 reading: 'We ought to have ontological commitment to all the entities that are indispensable to our best scientific theories'.