Example sentences of "must be [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This must be about the sixth glass of water you 've asked for . ’ |
| 2 | Since the play is by Shakespeare , the critical policy has been to assume the tragedy must be of the first stature and , therefore , the play would be written to support this revelation of interiority . |
| 3 | If asked to recall a date such a person will proceed by inference rather than by a direct introspective search , e.g. ‘ it can not be next week but it must be within the next month ’ or ‘ this kind of event is always on a Tuesday ’ and so on . |
| 4 | Multiplied together , these give the ( 2 × 4 ) submatrix at the top left in A. The vertical partition in B , after the third column , and the corresponding partition in C , which must be after the third row , merely divide each summation into two parts . |
| 5 | In this greater society " there must be in the first place a certain order of ranks between the chiefs of these particular ones . |