Example sentences of "but [pron] must [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I must be back by nine-thirty . |
| 2 | ‘ But I must be back tonight . |
| 3 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option , but you must be either the manager of the package or an ascendant of that user . |
| 4 | But you must be nearly out , two hundred thousand |
| 5 | This can eat into the rest of your working day but you must be properly briefed and have given thought to managing the event . |
| 6 | But you must be very busy and I came here to ask a favour , a big favour . |
| 7 | It would be bad for my fucking head , but you must be very in |
| 8 | but you must be fairly near the end |
| 9 | ‘ But she must be nearly forty , ’ I said . |
| 10 | But we must be very pleased with a point . |
| 11 | Fibreglass pools are obviously entirely rigid and free-standing , and present no such difficulties during construction , but one must be very careful over the choice of design , for most are made by fibreglass manufacturers with little understanding of plant life and it is often the case that reeds , rushes and irises are expected to become established on a marginal shelf no more than 8 cm ( 3 in ) wide , while the deeper areas of the pool will not have a sufficiently flat floor to place a single waterlily basket . |
| 12 | But one must be suitably dressed for a country visit and I had absolutely nothing fit to wear . |
| 13 | I have questioned the degree of control which university institutes assumed , but there must be no minimising the contribution they have made to a more rational and systematic form of curriculum development . |
| 14 | Writers in our day sometimes refer to ‘ the scientific community ’ , but this is very much a theoretical entity : there may be some issues on which all active scientists feel the same , and are opposed to those in the humanities , but there must be very few . |
| 15 | I forget how many golf courses there are in my constituency , but there must be about 10 . |
| 16 | But there must be more to say about a fire which caused a national disaster , destroyed part of the British heritage and is going to cost the taxpayer a fortune . |
| 17 | Lord knows what they say to her , but they must be on at her night and day , to get her into a state where she 's afraid to acknowledge me on the phone ! ’ |
| 18 | We need more resources , but they must be properly targeted . |
| 19 | The judicial statistics of the late nineteenth century provide more precise information , but they must be carefully assessed in light of the social , economic and administrative settings which produced them . |
| 20 | You do not necessarily need to take up space by publishing them with the competition but they must be readily available on request . |
| 21 | One does not want to occasion unnecessary delay in exercising those controls , but they must be sufficiently firm and rigorous to ensure that criminals who try to get into the country are detected and that illegal immigrants are similarly detected and prevented from entering the country . |
| 22 | But he must be quite good unusual to start by playing a whole game ? |
| 23 | The Policyholder may consider he is morally responsible but he must be LEGALLY responsible for the injury , illness , loss or damage , etc . |
| 24 | He was with Leeds for only 3 and 1/3 seasons but he must be fairly high in the list of all-time scorers . |
| 25 | I know he 's had a long time out with injury but he must be all right now or he would n't be playing . ’ |
| 26 | But he must be all too aware that it wo n't impress the Soviet citizens facing economic crisis , and waiting in the food queues , nor will it immediately resolve the ethnic problems which beset him . |
| 27 | But it must be equally obvious that during spells of prolonged rain the rabbits are much more likely to stay underground in the warmth and security of their burrow systems rather than braving it out in the open and being constantly soaked . |
| 28 | But it must be nearly dinner time now . |
| 29 | Side-drum parts are usually written in the treble clef on the note C , as above , but it must be clearly understood that the side-drum never gives a note of definite pitch . |
| 30 | RUPERT Murdoch 's profit warning will not lead Australian and US shareholders to desert News Corporation the way they have dumped Alan Bond , but it must be rather worrying . |