Example sentences of "it must be [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a first attempt it really shines , and for free it must be worth getting hold of . |
| 2 | However it must be worth trying to do so especially if a senior employee has received independent legal advice before entering the agreement and has been specifically compensated ( as is common in the USA ) for accepting the restraint . |
| 3 | Once it was shown that Verdun was deemed worth capturing , it must be worth defending ; if worth defending , then worth taking . |
| 4 | Erm , secondly , we will only be able to do that effectively and this is the point you were making about say , erm , school governors and so on , if people really feel they do have some genuine power , locally , it must be about enabling and empowering local groups to have power and take part within their community . |
| 5 | Most of us agree that it would be handy to turn the loft into a bedroom , or have a conservatory tacked on to an outside wall , but can you imagine what it must be like living in a church , a factory or a windmill ? |
| 6 | It must be like living in a power station . ’ |
| 7 | It must be like looking for a needle in a haystack — assuming there 's a bloody needle there . ’ |
| 8 | It must be like looking back through primitive blown glass . |
| 9 | There 's something spooky about them : you sense momentarily what it must be like to live in an ordered , God-run universe , with Himself looking over your shoulder and helpfully dropping coarse hints about a cosmic plan . |
| 10 | Devotedly Meredith , she experienced such a choking sensation of jealousy — she thought it must be like parachuting from an aeroplane , in that she could n't breath and the world dropped away — that she scrumpled up both scraps of paper and flung them into the metal basket beneath the counter . |
| 11 | It must be like loving someone from afar only to have them turn to us one day , recognizing the love we have held for them and the secret things we have done for them , and returning our love with their own . |
| 12 | ‘ Can you imagine what it must be like to lose someone who 's been part of your life for so long ? ’ |
| 13 | OUR super EXCLUSIVE Wallchart features 14 of the terrible tearaways and the dramatic full-colour pictures give you just a hint of what it must be like to meet them in the ring . |
| 14 | She could not even imagine what it must be like to have a brother who had been murdered . |
| 15 | I take a furtive and secret pride in the fact that I can do all these things , that I am physically strong , can lift and carry things that defeat other women , wonder with some scorn what it must be like to have to learn to clean a house when adult , not have the ability laid down as part of the growing self . |
| 16 | She stood dreaming , trying to imagine what it must be like to walk up the aisle to the side of a man who was waiting to marry you , and so enthralled was she with her imaginings that she never heard him . |
| 17 | I wondered what it must be like to work in such an atmosphere . |
| 18 | Despite the message of Modern Times and our images of modern factory work being influenced by our beliefs about what it must be like to work on , for example , the car assembly lines at Detroit or Dagenham , most people , when asked in social science surveys , say that they experience an acceptable level of job satisfaction at work . |
| 19 | A Chambers colleague remarked on seeing it that it must be like driving around in a Smartie . |
| 20 | For the first time she could sense what it must be like to possess the surgeon 's power almost of life and death , the satisfaction of knowing your actions had helped to save a life or bring a new one into the world , and she had been a part , albeit a small one , of the drama . |
| 21 | It must be like going to sea in a haystack . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ If we are ever to have a real modern church , it must be by adopting a fresh church arrangement . ’ |
| 23 | The subject is merely touched on , as it must be in setting out to take a sport , an integral part of English society , from the early 18th century to the late 20th . |