Example sentences of "must at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first impression was that somebody had started to construct a small harbour , but then he saw a shallow groove cut in the face of the cliff which must at one time have accommodated a pipe , and it occurred to him that it had probably been a sewage outfall . |
| 2 | [ The story ] must at one and the same time relate to all aspects of his ( sic ) personality — and this without ever belittling but , on the contrary , giving full credence to the seriousness of the child 's predicaments , whilst simultaneously promoting confidence in himself ( sic ) and his future . |
| 3 | On 3 October ‘ the King told the Prime Minister that he must at all costs find the solution himself , and His Majesty would refuse to accept his resignation . |
| 4 | She thought that she never wanted to sleep with Jim again , that the bonds of love were snares and that she must at all costs leave as early as possible the next morning and never come back . |
| 5 | It was strange with Aunt Louise in the house , she and I alone together , our relationship a delicate bubble which must at all costs be kept floating intact . |
| 6 | The management style that such a head must at all costs avoid is the style of the legislation itself . |
| 7 | Yet the effect of the violence is as much exhilarating as horrifying … if one 's moral position is the tenable one that violence is intrinsically wrong and must at all costs be held in check , then there is no doubt that Straw Dogs is an immoral film . |
| 8 | The main criteria for taxis is that drivers must at all times act civilly . ’ |
| 9 | What is clear is that for [ Whitehouse ] and others like her , there is a determination to restore a Christian culture to Britain , and in that battle the greater availability of sexually explicit cultural forms , the easier access to abortion and divorce , the legitimation of homosexuality between consenting adults and so on are developments which must at all costs not only be stemmed but at some ill-defined date in the future actually reversed . |
| 10 | The unity of the socialist states and their military-strategic parity with the NATO countries must at all costs be preserved , as the only secure guarantee against the ‘ aggressive appetites of imperialism ’ . |
| 11 | You must at all times try to maintain a DR plot of your position . |
| 12 | He was becoming increasingly conscious of the existence of something at the core — in fact , a suspicion , a threat , which must at all costs be shielded from his probes . |
| 13 | ‘ The chef , ’ he recalled saying , ‘ must at all times be prepared for disaster . ’ |
| 14 | Conditions which must at all times be satisfied by recognised |
| 15 | Conditions which must at all times be satisfied |
| 16 | As a simple , untutored Galilean fisherman and bully , he must at first have taken Jesus 's statements quite literally . |
| 17 | As Anita Mason shows , Simon Peter must at first have been thoroughly convinced that the world would literally end with Jesus 's death — that an apocalyptic holocaust would consume the whole of creation , that upheavals such as those recounted by Old Testament prophets would sweep the earth , that God would descend to pronounce stern judgement . |
| 18 | The mother 's job is even more exacting ; while remaining true to herself and her needs , she must at first embrace her baby in the closest hold , and then let her move away in steps of her own . |
| 19 | Our citizens must at last find out where their roots are ’ , he says . |
| 20 | We must at last face the question as to whether the time is right to discard the nation state . |
| 21 | I think we have to face facts , first fact is the the priority of the board must at this time be survival . |
| 22 | However , I must at this stage part from Amendment eleven on the method of their selection for two reasons . |
| 23 | Of course in order to be effective anti-viral agents they must at some stage be dependent on a viral enzyme to convert them into their active form , or they must selectively inhibit viral enzymes directly . |
| 24 | If Christianity is true and if religion affects culture , then non-Christian religions , whose creeds must at some point involve the denial of some aspect of Christian truth , will reveal cultural problems resulting from inconsistencies which are impossible to reconcile given their religious postulates . |
| 25 | In order for parents to express these worries , however , the child must at some time have produced actual behaviour . |
| 26 | And , I suppose , if I 've been dethroned I must at some stage have been enthroned ! |
| 27 | The duties of the subscribers must at some stage be noted , and since we have already come across three of them , they can now conveniently be listed in full : |
| 28 | The owner of 2041 must at some point have sold off a little plot , and this half-numbered , half-acknowledged house was put up . |
| 29 | ‘ Maybe so , yet any man must at some point question whether it is chance or fate that brings things to pass ; whether he is the author or merely the agent of his actions . ’ |
| 30 | Almost every effect of fluid motion must at some time have been tried as a means of measuring velocities . |