Example sentences of "[conj] it must be [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 The latter items , of course , like meanings , are subject to identity ; i.e. a non-meaning qua topic of discourse is necessarily such that it must be possible to refer to it on different occasions with the phrase " the same A " , where A is a descriptive expression of some sort .
2 They had evolved once , so it seemed that it must be possible to evolve them again .
3 There was also our conviction that it must be possible to find a drug effective in endogenous depression .
4 The traditional requirement that there be reasonable grounds for taking the proceedings was accepted , and to this was added the subsidiary test that it must be reasonable to employ a legal representative .
5 It is true that it must be able to check the excesses of even the ruling class ; but Poulantzas also has to account for the tendency of capitalist states to favour capitalist interests .
6 Kodak explains that it must be stiff to resist water pressure at depth .
7 Retributivism has no such problem , since it follows automatically from the retributive principle that it must be wrong to punish non-offenders .
8 But he does come rather near making the rather empty point that it must be wrong to identify good with anything different from itself .
9 The Apache lacked the grace of Cessna 's more powerful model 310 but its design aims were that it must be undemanding to fly , cheap to buy and inexpensive to operate .
10 The desiderata for a good background at this point were that it must be perceived by the measuring instrument as significantly darker than the subject , it must be cheap and readily available , and it must be easy to mould it to the growth boxes , fix it to the wall , etc .
11 No one no one could say that they could endure noise , and it must be awful to live next door to it .
12 They must be spatially sound , they must work and it must be possible to manufacture them .
13 And it must be prepared to lose a few million pounds in the process .
14 But it must be prepared to rework and reconsider all received material and concepts , and to present its own contributions within the open interaction of evidence and interpretation which is the true condition of its adequacy .
15 A young wildebeest is able to run almost as soon as it is born , for it must be able to keep up with the other wildebeest when they flee a predator .
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