Example sentences of "and [det] must be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Now they are at their lowest for a quarter of a century , and that must be good .
2 Overall during last year , this is to the end of , of November actually because fin figures are n't available for the end of the year , the reduction was four point nine percent , which compares with four point three percent in the previous year , so not only are they still going down , they 're actually going down slightly more than they were in the previous year and that must be encouraging .
3 I have seen enough already to know that my work on Christabel must be seriously altered in the light of what you have in these letters — I would n't be happy going on without taking them into account — and that must be true of Dr Michell 's work on Ash too , just as true . ’
4 In favour of rigorism , there is the apparent reasonableness of saying that if one fails to do all one can to promote happiness ( and , in particular , to reduce suffering ) one has not done the best one could do , and that must be wrong .
5 The separation between the two components is only about 35000000 kilometres , so that no telescope can show them separately , and each must be egg-shaped .
6 Your council occasionally suffers comments about the age of some of its members but the fact remains that to a man or woman your council members are current sailors or actively involved in the sport and this must be good for sport .
7 All schools must also provide religious instruction ( the only part of the curriculum prescribed by law , until the 1988 Education Reform Act ) , and this must be non-denominational except in voluntary schools .
8 Competition and selection are logically inevitable features of ecology , and this must be true on any planet on which life-forms reproduce and depend on supplies that can run out .
9 A number of assumptions are related to any method of analysis , and these must be appropriate to the data to retain any validity .
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