Example sentences of "must be [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the inconvenience of travel must be wiser than the don't-worry-you-won't-capsize attitude . |
| 2 | Look , it must be nearer 2lb than 1lb . |
| 3 | Looking round its walls , Breeze realized that the sea must be nearer than she had thought , for there were so many little tablets to people who had been drowned off this coast . |
| 4 | He had frozen the image of William 's grandad in his late fifties , but he must be nearer eighty now . |
| 5 | You must be duller than I thought . ’ |
| 6 | Millions of us choose the specially prepared baby and toddler drinks because we think they must be healthier than ordinary lemonade or squash . |
| 7 | I must be subtler than that , Penelope thought — just bringing food wo n't be enough . |
| 8 | For surely they could be forgiven for believing that a prince 's promise to pay later must be firmer than a pauper 's ? |
| 9 | I had discovered that without which life must be worse than death . |
| 10 | His hole card must be worse than a five for a goodish low , or a second ace for a well-concealed high . |
| 11 | I knew how it felt , and it must be worse for a man . |
| 12 | They must be worse in a hot place . |
| 13 | ‘ A lot of people think blindness must be worse than deafness but not being able to communicate is really maddening . ’ |
| 14 | THE financial plight at the mighty Quakers ( see above ) must be worse than anybody thought . |
| 15 | It must be worse for the Scots who |
| 16 | But I must be clearer what kind of personification this is . |
| 17 | And because many illnesses and deaths in developing countries do not come to the attention of doctors , who are anyway ill-informed about the effects of pesticides , real casualty figures must be higher . |
| 18 | in a nuclear age with the high cost of technology , countries now have to arm against immediate destruction , ensuring that military expenditure must be higher than ever before . |
| 19 | They also mean that lending rates , due to the higher cost must be higher and deposit rates must be lower than they would be in the Euromarkets . |
| 20 | They also mean that lending rates , due to the higher cost must be higher and deposit rates must be lower than they would be in the Euromarkets . |
| 21 | They keep saying well a sixth must be bigger cos six is bigger . |
| 22 | I think the goals must be bigger or something , but they always get loads they always |
| 23 | Patrick now inspected it closely and said , ‘ One must be heavier than the other or it would n't fall down ’ . |
| 24 | Saw off the waste close to the lines , then finish the outside angles by planing , and the inside angle by careful paring with a very sharp chisel , which must be wider than the thickness of the material . |
| 25 | Therefore " inflict " in s.23 must be wider than " inflict " in s.20 . |
| 26 | It is widely accepted that for a bloom to develop the critical depth must be shallower than the mixed depth . |
| 27 | It shook Nutty , for the fact that he adored Firelight surely meant that he must be nicer than he seemed ? |
| 28 | There must be closer liason between the terraces and the dressing room , beginning with young supporters . |
| 29 | It must be better to have a publisher supporting your music , however big or small , than still being yet another unknown songwriter trying to get your first break . |
| 30 | What is perhaps most interesting about the process is the nature of the German objections : the assumption which Bonn/Frankfurt seems to make that somehow its institutions must be better than those of the EC or its rivals . |