Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | It must be galling to be reduced to wearing denim instead of silk . ’ |
| 35 | But it must be terrible to be so alone . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ But it must be terrible to be like that — not to be able to move — or to feel anything . ’ |
| 37 | must be terrible to be |
| 38 | Satan must be pleased to be so fashionable again . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Sister will always be remembered for her words , You must be cruel to be kind . |
| 41 | ‘ It must be embarrassing to be like that . ’ |
| 42 | Evidence , in whatever form , must be relevant to be admissible . |
| 43 | 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 . ’ |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | You must be willing to be helped and help others — your experiences will be useful to other group members . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | ‘ It must be wonderful to be a father , wake up on Xmas morning and say , ‘ What have we bought everybody ? ’ |
| 51 | I know they 're very clever , it must be wonderful to be able to write like Alan Sillitoe . |
| 52 | I do n't know it must be wonderful to be able to mend . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Since it depends on an argument , it must be able to be expressed as a conclusion . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | It must be horrible to be driven away from all your old haunts because you might bump into your drug mates . |
| 57 | 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 ? |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | If we were to seek an explanation in the fact that Gandhi , as we have seen , does not equate ahi sā with non-killing and notes the distinction between ahi sā and hi sā by indicating that hi sā means killing from motives of anger or selfishness and ahi sā means refraining from so doing , then it might be possible to be a believer in ahi sā and yet kill , provided the killing is not prompted by angry or selfish motives and is performed with detachment as one 's duty . |
| 60 | The thought that it might be right to be a monk kept coming back . |