Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] must be [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knows it 's bound to be a Paddy : we say it must be an insider . |
| 2 | Took out the map , found it must be the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the Avon Gorge . |
| 3 | Harrison kept intent on the gentleman but still he noted the two boats on the lake — one had caught what must be a pike from the struggle — heard the chiming axes of the woodmen , noted the flocks on the Scale Force bank of Crummock and , more particularly , a pair of swallows playing beside the water — these and a score of other impressions gave him a richness of context denied Hope who , after struggling with his pipe , battled on , oblivious of all that was about him , to confirm and exercise his new and gloriously liberated Christianity . |
| 4 | He says there must be a reinterpretation of the way polls are analysed and like some others , including Worcester and Moon , believes there may also have been sampling errors . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought it over again and I have decided there must be an announcement , because it would indicate the merits of the matter and make it perfectly clear that I was in the right . ’ |
| 6 | From what my governess told me and the way our elders talk and exchange glances when speaking of completion or bedding , I imagined there must be a sort of initiation ceremony , something absolutely frightful ! ’ |
| 7 | ( The subsidiary element is the idea that since ‘ pain' is evidently not the name of a material object it must be the name of an aethereal one , a personal experience . ) |
| 8 | If the problem exists there must be a solution , if there 's no solution there 's no problem . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose it shows there must be a lot of managers or ex-players who are looking for work . ’ |
| 10 | If I am forced to select it must be the conclusion : |
| 11 | Without a shirt the Frenchman 's body looked lean and hard , and she guessed he must be a man of her own age . |
| 12 | He observes that ‘ if material goods are to be used efficiently for human well-being there must be a regime of private property ’ . |
| 13 | I do n't know how Leanne always gets it must be the fact she 's slim . |
| 14 | He told me they were very cross and they started saying there must be a ghost in the machine . |
| 15 | They were of brown calf with a copper beech leaf on the instep and their shape was so strange and outlandish that Nurse Rose decided they must be the extreme of fashion . |
| 16 | In spite of its bustard-like habits and looks , they decided it must be a wader , a Norfolk plover , and a member of the Burhinidae family . |
| 17 | A large bird was riding the air currents below him , and he decided it must be an eagle . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose it must be a combination of the sea and the heat . |
| 19 | Nathan had needed no special arrangements : when very well dressed he looks scruffy — I suppose it must be a gift ; it is certainly true that he could n't give it away — and today he was not very well dressed . |
| 20 | " I suppose it must be the baby , " whispered Mama . |
| 21 | Many more youngsters had been dispatched around the world in Operation Raleigh , and he felt there must be a way for every young person to experience these kind of benefits . |
| 22 | In the night , Dot heard the low thudding of explosions on the ground somewhere in the faraway distance and knew there must be a raid on . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , there was n't much money in your wallet , not for a gent like you , so I thought there must be a bit in the letter . ’ |
| 24 | Dot knew it must be the enemy had dropped their gas canisters to suffocate women and children in a gas-attack . |
| 25 | I thought it must be a tarantula at least with all the fuss you 're making . |
| 26 | I thought it must be a visit to his lawyer or somesuch and politely asked no more . |
| 27 | I remembered Gerry saying she thought it must be a radio phone as it had so many digits . |
| 28 | Then I realised it must be a ghost . |
| 29 | She even thought he looked vaguely familiar , but then she realised it must be the type that seemed familiar . |
| 30 | I think I must be a bungalow person . |