Example sentences of "[modal v] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are the anxieties of our times , born of the idea that the individual must in one way or another ( any damned way , as a matter of fact , even confessing to having been abused as a child ) express his uniqueness and fulfil his potential . |
| 2 | Because progress in learning a language is continuous but uneven , the definition of the different levels of attainment must in certain respects be a matter of judgement . |
| 3 | Each group , then , must sound complete if played without the others , and the part-writing must in each case be smooth and correct . |
| 4 | The literary production of the revolutionary novelist must in other words be underwritten by the historical awareness of the political revolutionary : |
| 5 | Braithwaite ( 1979b : 130 ) believes that , ‘ government lawyers , who must in many ways be all-rounders , can not compete with the corporation lawyer who spends his whole life finding out all there is to know about a narrowly delimited area of ‘ legal loop-holes ’ ' . |
| 6 | If we are intended for great ends , we are called to great hazards ; and , whereas we are given absolute certainty in nothing , we must in all things choose between doubt and inactivity , and the conviction that we are under the eye of One who , for whatever reason , exercises us with the less evidence when He might give us the greater . |
| 7 | It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in making , conforming enlarging , restraining , abrogating , repealing , reviving , and expounding of laws , concerning matters of all possible denominations , ecclesiastical or temporal , civil , military , or criminal : this being the place where that absolute despotic power , which must in all governments reside somewhere , is entrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms . |
| 8 | The adjudication officer must in all cases prepare a documentary case for submission to the tribunal in advance of the hearing . |
| 9 | The average cost basis means that the cost will approximate to the open market charge ( less any profit element ) and therefore must in all circumstances be substantial . |
| 10 | ‘ But I must in all honesty say says Howard very quickly , jutting his chin out and smilingly blinking his eyes , ‘ that I still think there are a number of things in the universe which really need seriously looking into . ’ |
| 11 | put it , ’ … the more outlandish the clause , the greater the notice which the other party , if he is to be bound , must in all fairness be given . ’ |
| 12 | The larger a programme 's audience or a paper 's readership , the more likely it seems that the content must in general be enjoyed , else why the large audience ? |
| 13 | A linguistic item must in general have at least the complexity of a simple sentence to show such properties . |
| 14 | Stylistics as a branch of literary studies can draw on this kind of work , but its concerns must in general be very different , because from a literary point of view the linguistic form of texts is of interest only in certain respects . |
| 15 | In a search of part , the land searched against must in general be defined by a plan unless the seller has lodged an officially approved plan of his or her development in the Registry : see official form of search ( Form 94B ) . |
| 16 | The meaning of a statement seems to be roughly what the speaker should have meant by it and this must in most cases be what the speaker does mean by it . |
| 17 | The designer must in this case provide the six displacement and rotation vectors to transform the model from its drawn space , into the reference for the component within the complete machine . |
| 18 | The files must in this case be named after the individual piece parts , ie PARTA to PARTE . |
| 19 | Any quotation must in any case be extensive : |
| 20 | Why should an applicant , who must in any event be prepared to satisfy the primary purpose test , be worse off because he contemplates the possibility of a relatively short stay in the UK than one who had the fixed intention of permanent UK residence ? |
| 21 | More important , he set about gathering the Wordsworths into the Quantock fold , hastening a visit which must in any case have been intended for the near future . |
| 22 | The Crown must in any event pay to the defendant his costs of the appeal to the Board . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , I expect that the methodological pluralism which has characterized our biogeography during my time will continue , and diversity of both material and outlook must in any final reckoning be a source of strength . |
| 24 | From this meeting they sent back Curzon with a formal resolution , urging Asquith 's immediate resignation , and saying that he must in any event accept and publish theirs . |
| 25 | The disturbing thought that motivates both theories is that , if the world is to be intelligible , it must be mind-like , in the sense that generality — the feature of thought , concepts and meanings — must in some way , run through the world itself . |
| 26 | But such homosexuality must in some sense be repressed ; overt ‘ masculine ’ homosexuality is subversive , says Irigaray , because it openly interprets the law according to which society operates and in so doing threatens it : ‘ once the penis itself becomes merely a means to pleasure , pleasure among men , the phallus loses its power ’ ( This Sex , 74 , 24 — 8 , 128 , 171 , 192 — 3 ; her emphases ) . |
| 27 | With one part of his mind he logged the fact that Mum had understood the worst immediately and must in some way have been expecting it . |
| 28 | I can not but feel , though it may be an illusion induced by the delectable drug of understanding , that you must in some way share my eagerness that further conversation could be mutually profitable that we must meet . |
| 29 | Maybe the authors realised this anyway , as they each made their colonies telepathic — and for that to solve the problem the collective mind must in some sense exist as a permanent , ordered structure of its own . |
| 30 | Women have so often been in situations of powerlessness and dependence that any system of belief or programme of action that could count as ‘ feminist ’ must in some way see this as a central concern . |