Example sentences of "must be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't your portrait , so it must be hers , painted when she was a girl . ’ |
| 2 | Safety must be everyone 's concern — the majority of accidents could be avoided if every pilot is aware of the common hazards . |
| 3 | ‘ There must be nothing colder on a bare arse than a gun barrel that was out all night . ’ |
| 4 | There must be nothing worse than to find , after a couple of decades of academic graft , that there is a whole world of ideas out there of incomparable pedigree that has become inaccessible . |
| 5 | There must be nothing left . |
| 6 | There must be nothing on it . |
| 7 | The chances of that must be nil by now . ’ |
| 8 | You can make suggestions , offer advice and give support but final decisions must be theirs . |
| 9 | Her neck prickles , this must be her hair going up on end . |
| 10 | If people behaved badly towards her , then it must be her fault . |
| 11 | Kathleen Lavender started and , looking down at the spreading carpet of white beads , felt that it must be her fault . |
| 12 | Two slender arms extended towards her and Martha realised that this must be her mother . |
| 13 | ‘ And you are Mrs Lomax , and you must be her son . ’ |
| 14 | She had stipulated to Asshe that Arkwright must be her stage name . |
| 15 | She toyed with an animal , which must be her companion . |
| 16 | Jill returned , saying that it was Mrs Mellings , for her father , and it took Alice some moments to realise that this must be her mother , not the new Mrs Mellings , who at this moment would be already on her way to the pleasures of a weekend in Kent . |
| 17 | Maisie had asked her to ‘ look after the childer ’ , and that must be her main concern . |
| 18 | Completion must be her watchword now , whatever admissions it entailed ; and was not completion at the very heart of the Coniunctio — the central symbol which had proved the stumbling-stone of her work ? |
| 19 | This must be her guide ! |
| 20 | This , she realised , must be her method of approaching the subject of Aunt Bertha . |
| 21 | Although two years had passed since that nightmare day when Simon had crashed on the Grand Prix circuit in Australia , Ashley had always known that , sooner or later , it must be her destiny to meet up with the tall , broad-shouldered Portuguese again . |
| 22 | There was one little girl there called Isobel , who must be twenty-something now , but she was about nine then , and a right handful . |
| 23 | If a man is worth protesting against he must be somebody . |
| 24 | There must be somebody . ’ |
| 25 | There must be somebody . |
| 26 | Yes , I supposed there must be somebody . |
| 27 | If there are any lingering doubts as to which editor is hammering the keyboard this time those same students can reflect that the last editorial was signed ‘ Furuta and Stotts ’ — so it must be somebody else 's turn — and can then proceed with their detective work via a careful study of what follows , based on the orthography of certain non-occurring words ( e.g. ‘ centred ’ , ‘ orientated ’ and ‘ colourful ’ ) . |
| 28 | Erm so there must be somebody responsible and I think if , if we write swimming pool and people take their cans there |
| 29 | So behind every change , every innovation , every development project , there must be somebody with a vision who has been able to communicate and sell that vision to somebody else ( even when the change begins with an assignment , not a self-directed initiative ) . |
| 30 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |