Example sentences of "must be [pron] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But if they 're ready to murder a chance visitor , it must be something pretty important . "
2 This , admittedly , is a hard saying , and may well stir a first inkling that there must be something fundamentally wrong with the approach which has brought us to this point .
3 However , if you have a car tyre that has a slow puncture , and you have to take it to the garage every week to put air into it , it does n't mean that there is anything wrong with the pump : there must be something else wrong to make the tyre lose air .
4 ‘ There must be something radically wrong with the play if it pleases everybody , ’ he wrote , ‘ but at the moment I can not find what it is . ’
5 Leo managed to imply that if he , a collector of twentieth-century first editions , had n't heard of the firm , there must be something seriously wrong with it .
6 LETTERS ( 1979 ) must be his most complexly self-referential work to date .
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