Example sentences of "must [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 Social mobility and elite circulation might increase , and the ruling group might become more heterogeneous , but government must remain oligarchic .
32 But we must remain vigilant , Brother , for he may strike again . ’
33 As long as nothing from the Titanic is raised — and the American Congress has decreed the hulk of the doomed liner to be an international memorial which must remain inviolate — the market for historical items genuinely connected with the ship should be safe .
34 ‘ If it is absolute , then the occluded particle must remain invisible . ’
35 Whilst the maintenance of professional standards must remain paramount , competition is increasing as a result both of clients demanding evidence of value for money and of the number of professional practices anxious to increase the size of their slice of the cake .
36 They must remain alive ; to combinations of causes and how these combinations affect people 's consciousness and actions .
37 Therefore — except for an occasional mutated child which turns out to be plainly of the wrong metal for its caste — ranks must remain separate .
38 While the unweaned child must remain preoccupied by the absence of the breast and his hunger for it , the successfully weaned individual is free to turn his attention to other means of satisfying his hunter , and will probably find that , as in the instructive case of agriculture , a judicious control of his appetite results in the long run in a lessened likelihood of hunger .
39 For the time being , the 6.4m foreigners in Germany must remain second-class non-citizens .
40 It must remain true , however , that this potentially valuable ability to obtain execution in rem was limited to certain cases .
41 the teacher must remain true to his/her own beliefs based on the Church 's teaching .
42 The rules of the open European market must remain common to all .
43 In the correct use of time , nothing must remain idle or useless : everything must be called upon to form the support of the act required . "
44 Every man has moved into position and must remain silent and unobserved until the critical moment .
45 The Deputy Under Secretary could talk of his host 's prospects and disappointments , he could learn of the problems of digging out foreign exchange and hard currency in the Third World , the tribulations over the renewal of Residence Permits , the difficulties of keeping reliable servants , but of his own world he must remain silent .
46 As Harris ( 1972 ) has written in his analysis of British conservatism , ‘ the aura of Conservatism must remain ambiguous , for intellectual clarity — that is , the clear expression of one set of interests before all others — is the enemy of cooperation between diverse groups , ( pp. 13–14 ) .
47 Hence most of the eggs from one season 's grazing must remain unhatched on the ground during the winter and only one generation is possible each year for the bulk of this species .
48 The department adds that GPs must remain free to send patients to hospitals with which their district has no contract .
49 The only constraint is that the information is ‘ off the record ’ which means the source of the information must remain anonymous .
50 The person who has sold to you must remain satisfied , because a month will pass , then two , then three , and he will have neither the money nor the thing , but you will still have the thing .
51 With more scope left to cut flab , a slimmer Security Pacific must remain attractive to a would-be cost-cutter .
52 We must remain wary .
53 The enhancement of records into research tools must remain secondary if the primary objective is producing an inventory .
54 On the positive side , however , Mr Gross acknowledged that high standards are in the public interest and that , because of the threat of JMU visits , staff know their standards must remain high .
55 Even with good roads , transport costs , in a large square country where canals are an economic and physical impossibility , must remain high .
56 ‘ I am disheartened by C&A 's corporate clothing attitude and have decided that if the sleeve of my record must remain blank then I shall boycott C&A from now on , and my feet and bottom will remain bare until we settle this like grown men . ’
57 Time out is a very effective way of controlling aggressive behaviour but it needs to be applied at the time of the problem and the parents must remain calm and firm .
58 Similarly , as we have seen , householders often insisted that female domestic servants must remain single .
59 Priests must remain single but there are many lay people who can marry , says Tabkay , who grows hair on his shaved head ‘ for insulation ’ in winter .
60 The importance of apathy and fatalism behind high fertility has been mentioned earlier , but in the absence of specific research , any connection between attitudes on council estates and fertility must remain speculative .
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