Example sentences of "a [noun] must be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 A route must be led , on sight , without clipping the bolt , to make an ethical statement .
2 If leave is refused a direction must be made dispensing with service or providing for the documents to be served in some other manner .
3 The head of the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom , Helmut Ricke , urged the government and opposition to strike a deal in crucial talks next week on the privatisation of the state-owned concern , Reuter reports from Bonn : the talks between the government and the Social Democratic opposition are due to resume May 14 : politicians on both sides of the debate , which resumed last month , agree a decision must be reached before the Bundestag 's summer recess on July 3 or there wo n't be enough time in the legislative calendar to pass the bill before next year 's parliamentary elections ; TeleKom finance director Joachim Kroeske complained to the Wall Street Jorunal that ‘ We have an organisation more like a bureaucracy than a real company — we have civil servants with lifetime employment , high pensions and salaries that correspond to the length of service and how many children they have . ’
4 However , in this case a decision must be made and is often given on the flimsiest of grounds ( though that is not the fault of the refereeing panel ) .
5 Back at the car a decision must be made : whether or not to climb Gragareth .
6 C. D. Needham ( 1971 ) gives examples of the filing difficulties that result ; he points out that a decision must be made at every stage — does L 7 file before or after L:7 ?
7 She must still be fed and clothed , and soon a decision must be made about a secondary school , with its uniform and other details .
8 A decision must be made about whether Newco will itself trade or whether it will remain a holding/investment company .
9 Old Ing is the apex of the circular walk and here a decision must be taken , either to return at once to Horton in Ribblesdale by way of the motor road , in which case the farm access road descending south-west to High Birkwith should be followed , turning aside to see Birkwith Cave on the left ; or preferably , if the legs are willing , a recommended three-mile detour north will yield further surprises and delights .
10 At Salen , the road forks and a decision must be taken : whether to go on the B.8007 to Ardnamurchan Point , a twenty-six-mile journey ( and twenty-six back ) : this is the most westerly point of the Scottish mainland and , for this reason , attracts many tourists ; or to continue along the A.861 to the Corran Ferry and Fort William .
11 This means that a decision must be taken on whether the in-use setting can be recreated in the studio or whether the photography should be done on location .
12 A password must be supplied if you do not have automatic access to the module .
13 A password must be supplied if you do not have automatic access to the module .
14 However , such a course must be adopted with great care .
15 The syntactic form of a sentence must be rendered either in speech or in writing , so graphology is an alternative system of realization to phonology .
16 If the normalised ( i.e. in ratio to the white card reading ) reflectance values for this time are aberrant , then this indicates that the reflectance measurements respond non-linearly to the illumination level , which must then be strictly controlled , or else a correction must be established .
17 As such , this subsection is an illustration of the general rule that the intention of the parties with respect to a contract must be gleaned in the light of the surrounding circumstances .
18 To be effective therefore a framework must be set up which will allow expense to be apportioned and identified and variations detected .
19 Parliament and King agreed that a militia must be raised to put down the rebellion , but neither would trust its control to the other .
20 ’ … and a cyclist must be allowed time to free himself from … ’
21 At various points the text is misleading — for instance , ‘ if a child is born stillborn , a baptism must be carried out … by a senior nurse or a Catholic nurse . ’
22 The implications of such a change must be recognised by management and by the public .
23 As well as informing users of the receipt and content of an SPR , a user must be nominated to pursue the SPR .
24 An SPR may only be passed on a limited number of times ; once this limit has been reached a user must be forced , by a privileged user , to accept the SPR .
25 Once this limit has been reached a user must be forced , by a user with SPR SSR CONTROLLER privilege , to accept the SPR .
26 The WWF spokesman said that canoeing was not a problem but until the law is changed ‘ a canoe must be treated in the same way as the QE2 ’ and if one were permitted to use the Derwent then so would the other .
27 They would first have inspected judicial practice to see whether almost all other judges were agreed either that the words of a statute must be given their " literal " meaning , even when that was not what the legislators intended , or the opposite , that the words must not be given their literal meaning in these circumstances .
28 But it is absurd to suppose that every power which is conferred on the political head of a department must be exercised by him and him alone .
29 A TESSA must be maintained in a sole name only .
30 Can I also point out that erm the association of natural body builders stipulate that a contest must be held in a seated theatre such as this .
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