Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] must [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Her prospects of playing her third final in eight years must be bright , since she beat the No 2 seed , Robyn Lambourne , of Australia , in Cardiff in February .
2 Collins says of Wilkinson : ‘ Any man who wins two championships in three years must be good — he certainly ca n't be bad ! ’
3 Three conditions must be satisfied :
4 Three conditions must be satisfied before a charge to tax can arise under section 14 : ( 1 ) the taxpayer must carry on a trade , profession or business in Hong Kong ; ( 2 ) the profits to be charged must be ‘ from such trade , profession or business , ’ which their Lordships construe to mean from the trade , profession or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong ; ( 3 ) the profits must be ‘ profits arising in or derived from ’ Hong Kong .
5 Thus three requirements must be satisfied before a course of dealing can incorporate an exemption clause into a later contract :
6 For this is to stipulate that Lenin 's three criteria must be satisfied if a whole is to count as a complex one .
7 The new laws include the following provisions : * the installation by 1995 of equipment to cut emissions of 41 listed pollutants by 70 per cent ; a further 148 pollutants must be similarly-controlled by 2003 ; * a cut of 10 million tonnes in emissions of sulphur dioxide ( one of the principal causes of acid rain ) by the year 2000 ; * the compulsory use of high-oxygen content petrol in 44 cities by the year 1992 .
8 Since the two groups are as alike in all respects except that one of them , the experimental group , has received the supposedly causal treatment , the new teaching style , then any differences in academic attainment between the two groups must be due either to chance or to the causal factor .
9 It is , however , well settled that four unities must be present for the creation of a joint tenancy , namely the unities of possession , interest , title and time …
10 The choice of timber is up to the entrant ; the only proviso being that the two pieces must be consistent .
11 Before money is accepted as a store of value two conditions must be satisfied :
12 In order to satisfy this , four conditions must be satisfied : ( 1 ) The transaction must have been entered into on or after 1 April 1977 ( Consumer Credit Act 1974 ( Commencement No 2 ) Order 1977 ( SI 1977 No 325 ) ) .
13 Likert emphasises that all four features must be present for a manager to be truly effective .
14 Students intending to take a joint degree join either department for the first year and since requirements of two departments must be satisfied , joint degree students normally have a restricted choice of courses in first and second years .
15 The time at which these two factors must be present is when the statement is made .
16 Hartnoll et al state that the two samples must be independent .
17 state that the two samples must be independent .
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