behove BrE
behoove AmE

If I was to be one of their luxuries it would behove me to consider my terms.

If the system did indeed turn out to be important, did it not behove him to take a little more care over the process?

People have just about got used to the new structure and it seems to me that it would behove us all to leave well alone.

It doesn't behove any manufacturer to make a product that will last forever.

She smiled, and 1 was grateful to know that a person in love will behove anything as long as it gives hope.

It does not behove you to say that an infinite regress of causes is impossible."

It would behove us to have a very long spoon when we're supping with Samuelson.'

In light of all the preparations the good lady will have made on our behalf, it would ill behove us to spurn an invitation already accepted.

While Ghorn returned to his observation post on the 40th floor, he was pondering woefully how much it would behove him to become an administrator.

"Behove me, it's obvious.

Many Jews behove the tomb is that of Jacob's son Joseph (with his Technicolor dreamcoat).

I'm not quite in my dotage yet and I think it would behove me to find some form of work where I'll be faced with threats of neither dismissal nor extinction.

It does not behove the future negotiations and discussions on behalf of Europe that, within this House, we cannot even set down proper debating time to discuss real issues rather than abstract principles.

"We are sure that damage will be minimal but it might behove the citizens of Oosterend and De Waal to stand by their boats or take to their attics shortly after 4.30.

"Well," said Torm, thoughtfully, for it did not behove a member of his caste to volunteer an opinion too rapidly on any matter, "it does not contradict any text with which I am familiar."

I think it would behove you to ask yourself precisely why you are condemning a group of young people (who are evidently not all white, middle-aged, well-educated types) for having the cheek to take liberties with The Bard.

But with his opening line penned one that will live forever, and I doubt if there is ar one of us in this room tonight who will do the same, so does not behove us to ridicule the silly old man.

Twice the crown was offered to him which he did twice refuse, saying, "It does not behove a minister to become a monarch; kingship should go to the scion of a royal family, and saintship to the descendant of a saint."

Pluralism and freedom of all media must be ensured in the European Union, but it does not behove us as MEPs to judge a country and its leaders on the nature of the relations between the press and the political world.

Above all, what it would behove him, Captain Cuttle, to do, in case of his hearing no more, either of the MacStingers or of Bunsby, which, in these wonderful and unforeseen conjunctions of events, might possibly happen.

The Aragonese were politely told by Edward (in January 1283) that 'we are bound by kinship and by homage to the king of France, nor does it behove us to rebel against him in any way, nor to do anything to arouse his anger nor give him offence'.

It might behoove me to keep a close watch on my behind.

More than ever, it behooved me to watch my back.

If words have such power, then we are behooved to consider them again.

I felt it behooved me to have some kind of law on my side.

Still, it would behoove the states to start thinking about how to deal with the coming problem.

It would behoove him to have justice on his side.

So it behooves me to give their women my protection.

But you know what, it would behoove everyone to check.

It behooves none of us to take the law into our own hands.

"It behooves us to have a closer relationship with somebody."

We had planned to work as a team next year, but I think it behooves us to start now.

It behooves you to allow us the natural supply of water.

It behooved him to find some way to get into the castle before then.

Now we are with the sun, and it behooves us to be more acute.

It behooved her, she thought, to get off his lap.

But I think it would behoove us to pay a bit more attention."

"It behooves us therefore to be sure we are not doing any harm."

It behooves me to keep them both on my good side."

Whatever your plight, though, it behooves you to find that special someone.

It behooves me well to know what my wife does and says."

Indeed it behooved him to keep on good terms with his pupils.

"But since the numbers have been relatively low, it behooves us to let families stay together," he said.

Therefore, it behooves you to move quickly with your lead follow-up process.

It therefore behooved me to set out alone for far adventures.

It would really behoove you to do some research before posting something like this.