Example sentences of "must be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if I 'm friendly towards you in future , you 'll remind yourself , ‘ That man nearly made me his mistress — I must be ice-cold to him , ’ and ice-cold is what you 'll be . ’ |
| 2 | Without the recession it would be higher but we must be thankful for what we can get in these times when other railways are reporting reductions of up to 20 percent . |
| 3 | Few Ayrshire people , even those living in the vicinity , are aware of Dundonald Castle 's place in our history and , in part , this must be attributable to the lack of interest shown in it by local authorities . |
| 4 | Secondly , the harm must be attributable to a lack of care or control . |
| 5 | There was just enough slope in the field to give him a decent run , though she felt sure it must be frustrating for someone so skilled to be stuck on what was little better than a nursery area . |
| 6 | I can imagine that the whole process must be frustrating for marine archaeologists . |
| 7 | Many European houses are anyway more used to peddling bonds to investors whose main interest is price , than equities to investors who must be convinced about the health and prospects of a specific company . |
| 8 | The Secretary of State must be convinced before confirming such an order that the granting of the order is in the public interest . |
| 9 | Must be fluent in spoken and written Arabic and English . |
| 10 | It must be irritating for ministers , used to almost unbridled power at Westminster , to be faced by hostile local bodies who can also claim to have a democratic mandate . |
| 11 | Ultimately , the balance becomes intolerable until , in what must be akin to the most incredibly vibrant springtime one has ever experienced , the world is flooded once again with the power of the Life Force , of consciousness , of universal spirituality , devoid of ritual , dogma and the outward trappings of religion . |
| 12 | ( a ) where the offer is for equity share capital and the offeror already holds shares carrying 50 per cent or less of voting rights , it must be conditional on the offeror acquiring more than 50 per cent of the voting rights ( when aggregated with the existing holding of the offeror ) ; |
| 13 | Fortunately , the Conservative Councillor , whom I had contacted , insisted on demanding that the approval must be conditional to restrictions on noise and traffic control being enforced . |
| 14 | But any protection must be conditional upon restructuring , and must be temporary . |
| 15 | An organisation will specify that all its letters must be typewritten on headed paper and use , say , a fully blocked , open punctuation style . |
| 16 | Postclassical criminology must be alive to both of these considerations . |
| 17 | What the child reader must be alive to is that the questions are in Carrie 's mind . |
| 18 | While dairy farmers had little to fear from the current round of GATT trade proposals now nearing formal agreement , he insisted that UK milk producers must be alive to threat that the inevitable ‘ son of GATT ’ could mean quota cutbacks of 20 to 25pc by the year 2000 or 2005 . |
| 19 | She must be well down the birth rates . |
| 20 | She had thought it must be well into the small hours . |
| 21 | Ergo , the wife of this elderly Don Quixote , Great-Uncle Alan 's colleague and contemporary , who must be well into his sixties at the very least , and slightly arid and passe even at that . |
| 22 | BTW The capacity MUST be well over 40K at the moment surely ? ? |
| 23 | ‘ He must be well in there , ’ Devlin observed . |
| 24 | For Mercury to have an iron core which is wholly or substantially molten today it must either possess significant quantities of U , Th and K in the core and deep mantle , or tidal heating by the Sun must be particularly powerful , or the solar wind must be efficient at inducing electric currents in the core . |
| 25 | He or she must be confident about delegating responsibility for aspects of the Compact programme to appropriate members of staff . |
| 26 | ‘ We must be polite to him , ’ whispered Coggan , ‘ if he 's married the mistress . ’ |
| 27 | All instruments allowed into the CMO system must be payable at maturity by a CMO member . |
| 28 | Such a state of tension can only be achieved by implanting a hidden structure which must be integral to the situation — and to what the class can understand of the situation . |
| 29 | The pact of loyalty between the brothers is part of modern ice hockey legend but their combined success must be unparalleled in British team sport . |
| 30 | I do not suggest that to restore benefit to 16 to 18-year-olds would solve this problem overnight , but it would go far down the road to alleviating this problem which surely must be unacceptable in 1993 . |