Example sentences of "must [adv] [vb infin] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them are concerned with admissibility of evidence , which is not in issue here ; and none , aside from those already mentioned , arose where in the face of clear and general language it was contended that Parliament must nevertheless have intended the words of the statute to have only a limited effect . |
| 2 | Mineral extraction and quarrying were the only other enterprises producing for more than immediate local demand , though practical considerations must generally have limited the distances stone could be transported . |
| 3 | Afterwards she thought that , of course she must already have formulated the plan somewhere at the back of her mind ; but at the time it burst upon her with all the excitement of a vision . |
| 4 | Imperial Guards must already have encountered the rebel Planetary Defence Force — or the other way about . |
| 5 | Coleridge must soon have taken the poem to read to the Wordsworths , and in the following month had an even more substantial achievement to show them . |
| 6 | Scraps of sedge and meadow rue still cling to its margins , the last remnants of a marsh which must once have inundated the whole valley floor . |
| 7 | The incident must also have inspired the melancholy bagpipe tune , ‘ Soor Plums of Galashiels ’ . |
| 8 | In both schools the conversion of depressed and under-utilised premises into business-like , welcoming and tasteful accommodation not only gave visible recognition to the library but must also have increased the attraction of the library and thus encouraged the utilisation of the materials purchased under the project . |
| 9 | Their mother had warned them to beg for forgiveness when their turn came to pray to their great-grandfather 's spirit before the altar , and it seemed certain to Lan 's ten-year-old mind that if she and her brothers had angered their father so deeply they must also have offended the spirits of their illustrious ancestors too . |
| 10 | The Claimant must also have notified the airline in question of a potential claim in writing within 3 days and keep a copy of this letter . |
| 11 | He must also have designed the fan vault for the upper part of the Red Mount chapel in Lynn , Norfolk , built in 1505–6 ( information from Michael Begley ) . |
| 12 | Thus the crime of Oedipus — murder of the father , mating with the mother — is really nothing more than what comes naturally to the gelada male , and , I think , to our hominid ancestors who , when they acquired numerous gelada-like physical adaptations , must also have acquired the appropriate behavioural responses and instinctual drives . |
| 13 | This must instantly have lowered the prestige of the archonship , and therefore of the Areopagus , which was recruited from former archons . |
| 14 | A British viceroy of India spoke of them as ‘ those countries which must inevitably have attracted the attention of Europe , partly from increasing infirmity , but still more from the opportunities suggested by their latent though neglected sources of strength ’ . |
| 15 | The thought occurred that Christopher Timothy must really have brought the house down with his little joke the day he opened the fete . |
| 16 | This obligatory military involvement , though a burden which some clergy would willingly have evaded , was for others doubtless a proud duty or welcome excitement ; not many of those assembled actually saw battle , but their association with this medieval ‘ home guard ’ must surely have blurred the distinction between clergy and laymen , with ambiguous and some unfortunate results : more popular they may have been , but equally more vulnerable when sentiment turned , as it did , against both war and the clergy . |
| 17 | But however aggrieved Murphy felt , he must surely have ended the day a proud and happy man . |
| 18 | Miller must surely have taken the family on local botanising expeditions to Chelsea Heath , the large stretch of common land to the north of the Fulham Road , where they could search for plants important to the Physic Garden . |
| 19 | She must indeed have plumbed the general sense of Jaq 's message … |
| 20 | Moreover — and this must indeed have given the legate food for reflection — Anselm said he was too busy with the defence of the part of the country which the king had committed to his care , to have a meeting with the legate . |
| 21 | In describing the position in the terms : ‘ the bank told Kennedy to go home and discuss the matter with his wife over the weekend , ’ I am forced to the conclusion that the judge must either have overlooked the evidence to which I have just referred , or to have failed to appreciate its significance . |
| 22 | ‘ I was greatly heartened and told myself I must previously have misjudged the situation — that my subjects were after all behind me and would see that right was done . ’ |
| 23 | Table 3.1 reveals that the OR was not restored after the retention interval when exposure to the test context filled the interval — habituation of the specific response to the light must therefore have survived the retention interval . |
| 24 | And should it have the misfortune not to please these stupid Frenchmen , all would be over — I should never get another commission to compose … the devil himself must certainly have invented the language of these people — and I fully realize the difficulties with which all composers have had to contend . |