Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] must [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remembering Lucy Lane 's description , he felt sure that she must be Anna 's mother . |
| 2 | ‘ So she must be St Agatha . |
| 3 | Following the December 1991 European Community summit at Maastricht , there is a consensus among all three major UK parties that we must be part of the process leading to monetary union . |
| 4 | He realized that there must be meetings , and he was prepared to go to them and fire off his battery of buzz words which signified he was ‘ one of us ’ . |
| 5 | He had thought , insofar as he had thought about it at all , that all prisons must be akin ; that there must be stone cells , barred windows , grilles , gaolers , other prisoners close by . |
| 6 | It means that there must be constant vigilance by the authorities ; it means that there must be methods of responding swiftly to alarm bells that may be rung either by staff or by children and that there must be alarm bells that can , in real life , be rung . |
| 7 | New pay recommendations are due in the new year and , although Mr Clarke has told the review body that there must be pay restraint , ministers appear likely to press for the award to be met . |
| 8 | In Bateman ( 1925 ) , where a doctor had attended the confinement of a woman who died whilst giving birth , the Court of Criminal Appeal held that there must be negligence over and above that which is sufficient to establish civil liability , and which shows ‘ such disregard for the life and safety of others ’ as to deserve punishment . |
| 9 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |
| 10 | Only after Dirac had predicted that there must be positrons as well as electrons ( verified in 1932 ) did he and others set out to see whether the charge and the mass of an electron can be derived from first principles . |
| 11 | Some people have calculated that there must be life elsewhere , on the following grounds ( I wo n't point out the fallacy until afterwards ) . |
| 12 | In other words , that kind of statistical argument , that there must be life elsewhere in the universe because there is life here , builds in , as an assumption , what it is setting out to prove . |
| 13 | and I 'm sure that there must be listeners who are very interested in this , perhaps as parents , or perhaps being involved in education , is there any book or booklet they can get hold of to learn a bit more about the subject ? |
| 14 | The attack on Poland was less than forty-eight hours away and no one any longer doubted that there must be war . |
| 15 | He was , however , unhappy with remedies prepared from bacteria and felt that there must be plant alternatives to these which would be purer and more generally acceptable . |
| 16 | But , as I have indicated , the Crown case requires that there must be ambiguity and further requires that the ambiguity must be resolved against the ordinary meaning of the word and in favour of the neutral meaning preferred and required by the Crown 's argument . |
| 17 | However I would say that , on a strike out application , I would find it difficult to hold with certainty that the ex turpi causa defence , assuming it to be available , would exclude a claim to contribution under the Act of 1978 unless I were also satisfied , with the same degree of certainty , that there must be exemption from contribution under section 2(2) . |
| 18 | If the observations do not agree with the predictions , we will know that there must be singularities in the class of possible histories . |
| 19 | It means that there must be constant vigilance by the authorities ; it means that there must be methods of responding swiftly to alarm bells that may be rung either by staff or by children and that there must be alarm bells that can , in real life , be rung . |
| 20 | The I O D also believe that there must be tax incentives to invest in Britain 's small businesses , but they 'd like to see them extended to include the general public . |
| 21 | However , this means that there must be feedback from output markets to R&D laboratories , since output markets are the main source of information about costs and demand . |
| 22 | The concord system in Bantu languages requires that there must be agreement between the object and number depending on which noun class the object belongs to . |
| 23 | They 're bigger than us , so there must be room for brains . |
| 24 | While all women are socialized for domesticity in much the same way — by identifying with their mothers ( and/or other adult women ) as housewives , internalizing the conviction that they must be housewives in their turn — for the working-class woman the linguistic process of role learning is such that ‘ I ’ becomes part of the role . |
| 25 | There is at least this restriction on the properties that count here , that they must be properties whose presence or absence can be registered by the person making the judgement . |
| 26 | They now had no idea where they were except that they must be east of the Ridgery and well to the west of where they believed the outlaws ' Camp to be . |
| 27 | They now had no idea where they were except that they must be east of the Ridgery and well to the west of where they believed the outlaws ' Camp to be . |
| 28 | Then she realised that it must be Ianthe Broome , the canon 's daughter they were always talking about , and perhaps in some way a kind of ‘ rival ’ for the affections of a man she had not yet seen . |
| 29 | Everyone took it for granted that it must be Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 30 | I am not very sure what 's wrong with her but I can tell by the way they start discussing the weather when I come into the room that it must be Women 's Trouble . |