Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is often assumed that textual discussion must be complex to be acceptable . |
| 32 | It must be marvellous to be an instrumentalist or a singer good enough to hold an audience in your spell , like Maria Callas or Yehudi Menuhin. but I would have had to be at the top , not just scraping along . |
| 33 | While Prince Charles must be relieved to be free of a marriage which had become a sham , he , his family and in the end the British Government have met Diana 's terms . |
| 34 | But if your repertoire includes standards like Wo n't Get Fooled Again , Substitute , and My Generation , it must be galling to be made to justify your desire to go out and play them . |
| 35 | It must be galling to be reduced to wearing denim instead of silk . ’ |
| 36 | But it must be terrible to be so alone . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ But it must be terrible to be like that — not to be able to move — or to feel anything . ’ |
| 38 | must be terrible to be |
| 39 | Satan must be pleased to be so fashionable again . |
| 40 | It must be strange to be the object of my affection , she thought idly , especially if all you 've had is hard-chested men doing their best but never sure . |
| 41 | Sister will always be remembered for her words , You must be cruel to be kind . |
| 42 | ‘ It must be embarrassing to be like that . ’ |
| 43 | Evidence , in whatever form , must be relevant to be admissible . |
| 44 | It is a little easier to protect computer software — but it is in the nature of the material that it must be copiable to be produced . ’ |
| 45 | It must be better to be an alone child than to have a brother like Augustin . |
| 46 | But his recent form has shown the Belgian-bred gelding to be back to his best , and he must be favourite to be the first horse to take the World Cup for a third time . |
| 47 | At parents ' meetings they must be prepared to be blamed by mothers and fathers with unrealistic expectations of their , the teachers ' , and the children 's abilities . |
| 48 | WE must be prepared to be flexible ; grasp opportunity ; recognise that we all have customers [ internal and external ] ; give everyone the service that we 'd expect every time ; ask for what we need to get the job done quickly and effectively well in advance of the start date . |
| 49 | In negotiating this or that pay increase , they must be supposed to be settling for the best terms they can get in all the circumstances of the negotiation . |
| 50 | You must be willing to be helped and help others — your experiences will be useful to other group members . |
| 51 | Farewells & A Grave With No Name by Juan Carlos Onetti tr by Peter Bush Quartet , £12.95 IT MUST be hard to be a South American novelist these days . |
| 52 | ‘ It must be wonderful to be a father , wake up on Xmas morning and say , ‘ What have we bought everybody ? ’ |
| 53 | I know they 're very clever , it must be wonderful to be able to write like Alan Sillitoe . |
| 54 | I do n't know it must be wonderful to be able to mend . |
| 55 | The empiricism here is not so tight that all theoretical terms and assumptions must refer directly to observables , but all substantive hypotheses must be able to be confirmed or falsified . |
| 56 | Since it depends on an argument , it must be able to be expressed as a conclusion . |
| 57 | Awnings must be able to be easily customised with logos and graphics ; all the better , if the canopy material is transulucent to allow back lighting to illuminate the restaurant 's name at night . |
| 58 | It must be horrible to be driven away from all your old haunts because you might bump into your drug mates . |
| 59 | I think we must be careful to be sure that we 're talking about a particular group in society in a sense , because you 've used words like ‘ graphical ’ and ‘ functions ’ and so forth and that seems to me to be limiting the section of society that we 're talking about — perhaps , what are we talking about , one in ten , one in four , certainly not more than that ? |
| 60 | What I had n't expected was the reaction we got here today which is that erm whilst there are smiling dis , he 's smiling now , there are smiling districts who might be pleased to be named as areas in which a major exception might be accommodated and I had n't expected the others would like a bit of it if there was one going too . |