Example sentences of "[vb mod] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how long must it be ? |
| 2 | Must it be so ? |
| 3 | ‘ Must it be the whole ? |
| 4 | What must it be like to have a substantial body of work behind you and yet have the creeping sense that you are being remembered only as a bore in Under the Volcano , as the inventor of a word about Greene , and as the friend of Lowry , of Orwell , of Patrick Hamilton ( himself , something of a forgotten figure ) ? |
| 5 | If she had failed to love her mother , she the missionary , what must it be like for people who , without God , had not even got a Christian obligation to try ? |
| 6 | The date must not be a future one , nor must it be out of date ( more than six months ) . |
| 7 | Does effort now lead to a cost reduction that lasts for ever , or must it be applied in every period for example ? |
| 8 | Must it be ? ’ |
| 9 | A question must be raised concerning the appropriate level at which socialist planning can take place : can it be national in scope or must it be international ? |
| 10 | Convention be construed independently of the Convention or must it be construed according to the law applicable in the individual case ( lex causae ) , which is determined by the private international law of the court applied to ? ( b ) Does article 5(3) of the E.E.C . |
| 11 | First , must it be murder ? |
| 12 | What must it be like for Joshua ? |
| 13 | How must it be to work here day after day , month after month , knowing there was no end to it ? |
| 14 | How must it be to tend your bit of land and sow crops and vegetables and perhaps rear animals , knowing you were building up a comfortable home and an inheritance for your children and then see your children taken and forced into slavery by the Robemaker ? |
| 15 | What must it be like to be imprisoned here , day after day , month after month ? |
| 16 | " Must it be one of the children ? |
| 17 | " And must it be today ? " continued Mama , as if Death had not interrupted her . |
| 18 | Sometimes , overhearing the heckling and the comments in the street , she had wondered , What must it be like , to have a man think so dirty about you ? |
| 19 | Nor must it be assumed that the whole of the Sahara shared in this climatic amelioration , for , as Gautier says , there are few traces of wadi patterns in the Libyan desert , which , forming the core of the Sahara , was probably less affected . |
| 20 | ‘ Must it be now ? ’ |
| 21 | What must it be like ? |
| 22 | What must it be like to be them ? ’ |
| 23 | And she thought : What must it be like to go to one 's marital bed with delight , instead of disgust ? |
| 24 | Will a free market economy find a Pareto-efficient allocation on its own , or must it be guided there by government intervention ? |
| 25 | What must it be like for the lads in Riyadh or Tehran , watching the women of their choice swoop around the supermarkets in twenty-five yards of black drapery ? |
| 26 | So must it be an inconclusive , ill-tempered parting between the friends ? |
| 27 | If it was so stunniggly desolate here , how must it be farther up , where the cool winds of the North Sea and the warm winds from the Atlantic met , sometimes to roar like a tornado down the Pennine Way ? |
| 28 | The designation must not be misleading , nor must it be based on an area of practice in which a claim to specialisation or particular expertise would be improper ( see paragraph 2(b) above ) . |
| 29 | And must it be gemütlich ? |
| 30 | But what must it be like for other organisations who are now having to make money out of news . |