Example sentences of "[pron] must be [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sister will always be remembered for her words , You must be cruel to be kind . |
| 2 | You must be willing to be helped and help others — your experiences will be useful to other group members . |
| 3 | WE must be prepared to be flexible ; grasp opportunity ; recognise that we all have customers [ internal and external ] ; give everyone the service that we 'd expect every time ; ask for what we need to get the job done quickly and effectively well in advance of the start date . |
| 4 | I think we must be careful to be sure that we 're talking about a particular group in society in a sense , because you 've used words like ‘ graphical ’ and ‘ functions ’ and so forth and that seems to me to be limiting the section of society that we 're talking about — perhaps , what are we talking about , one in ten , one in four , certainly not more than that ? |
| 5 | In negotiating this or that pay increase , they must be supposed to be settling for the best terms they can get in all the circumstances of the negotiation . |
| 6 | At parents ' meetings they must be prepared to be blamed by mothers and fathers with unrealistic expectations of their , the teachers ' , and the children 's abilities . |
| 7 | But his recent form has shown the Belgian-bred gelding to be back to his best , and he must be favourite to be the first horse to take the World Cup for a third time . |
| 8 | Nick said , ‘ It must be nice to be so young that when you 're tired it only makes you look prettier . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It must be nice to be wanted . |
| 10 | It must be strange to be the object of my affection , she thought idly , especially if all you 've had is hard-chested men doing their best but never sure . |
| 11 | But it must be terrible to be so alone . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But it must be terrible to be like that — not to be able to move — or to feel anything . ’ |
| 13 | It must be better to be an alone child than to have a brother like Augustin . |
| 14 | ‘ It must be embarrassing to be like that . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ In that case , it must be possible to be violently attracted to someone on sight . |
| 16 | It is a little easier to protect computer software — but it is in the nature of the material that it must be copiable to be produced . ’ |
| 17 | It must be marvellous to be an instrumentalist or a singer good enough to hold an audience in your spell , like Maria Callas or Yehudi Menuhin. but I would have had to be at the top , not just scraping along . |
| 18 | But if your repertoire includes standards like Wo n't Get Fooled Again , Substitute , and My Generation , it must be galling to be made to justify your desire to go out and play them . |
| 19 | It must be galling to be reduced to wearing denim instead of silk . ’ |
| 20 | It must be great to be a bird — you know , just flying over people and buildings and that . |
| 21 | It must be great to be a human , Grimma thought , as thorns the length of her hand tore at her dress . |
| 22 | Since it depends on an argument , it must be able to be expressed as a conclusion . |
| 23 | ‘ It must be wonderful to be a father , wake up on Xmas morning and say , ‘ What have we bought everybody ? ’ |
| 24 | I know they 're very clever , it must be wonderful to be able to write like Alan Sillitoe . |
| 25 | I do n't know it must be wonderful to be able to mend . |
| 26 | It must be horrible to be driven away from all your old haunts because you might bump into your drug mates . |