Example sentences of "it must [adv] " in BNC.

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1 To do the navy justice , however , it must again be emphasised that powerful interest could rarely secure promotion for the unqualified , and in the naval service some ability was a prerequisite for advancement .
2 At the risk of wearying the reader it must again be stated that some degree of incestuous feeling exists in most if not all parents and children .
3 Sexual problems of the child may stem from any of the above considerations , although it must again be stressed that they are not inevitable .
4 In relation to appraisals , it must again be pointed out to members that the completion of numeric targets is purely on a voluntary basis .
5 Even if a share does not pay dividends temporarily , it must eventually pay dividends to have any value .
6 It must eventually be split up into , the Muslims , the Serbs , the Croats , and that , that is in fact very sad .
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8 It must surely be apparent that , with death visiting almost every family with such regularity , any attempt to mask or evade the reality of death could not have succeeded , and would probably have made the situation worse .
9 If ruthlessly destroying a hundred years of tradition , not to mention a massive loss of capital , is ‘ pioneering ’ , than it must surely rank with the pioneering attempts of Stalin in purging Soviet libraries of all books that departed from his orthodoxy .
10 IT must surely qualify as ecclesiastical culture-shock to attend the annual assemblies of both Anglicans and Methodists on the same day in different English cities .
11 It must surely be easier now than it was half a century ago , thanks to the greater contact the public have with sportsmen generally .
12 It must surely be much more pleasant and by no means as painful to work with friendly and docile ferrets .
13 It must surely increase tensions and expectations and put too great an emphasis on nationalistic feelings .
14 I have no exact idea how many times he hit me , but it must surely have been six or more .
15 If it is accepted that representative or indirect democracy is at best an inadequate substitute for personal participation , and that everything possible should be done to ensure that the views and wishes of the people are represented as accurately as possible within such a system , it must surely follow that representation should be in proportion to the weight of opinion in the society itself .
16 It must surely be the case that the cat is competent to act as observer of its own survival or demise and does not need me to settle the issue for it .
17 It must surely be the promises for baptism
18 It must surely have been that quality , suggestive of significance , which drew so many writers and designers to vernacular styles , in both the later Victorian and the Edwardian periods .
19 It must surely be for Parliament to lay down the procedures which are to be followed before a Bill can become an Act .
20 When Lord Morris stated ‘ It must surely be for Parliament to lay down the procedures which are to be followed before a Bill can become an Act .
21 If the past two years of desktop publishing has had an impact on the traditional typesetting market it must surely be reflected in the number of PostScript bureau that have sprung up around the country .
22 Whatever the merits of these reasons , and not all of them carry complete conviction , it must surely be true that no government , given that the enormous and growing cost of higher education was coming very largely out of public funds , would have been prepared for provision to have been largely concentrated in the ‘ autonomous ’ university sector ?
23 At the very least , it must surely be true that it is better to have NAB then no body at all ?
24 However , in two later cases courts have refused to follow this and , it must surely be right ( at any rate if the price has been paid ) that the buyer obtains such rights as the transferor had .
25 How this site fits into the overall picture remains uncertain , but it must surely indicate a significant shift in the local settlement pattern on the eve of the conquest .
26 ‘ If you had n't known before , it must surely have occurred to you then , that it was a measure of my besottedness that I let you get away with it . ’
27 One aspect of Britain 's opting out of the social charter is that it must surely undermine the single market .
28 It is no surprise to discover its presence , since it must surely belong to a very early stage in the mental development of the human species ; indeed insofar as it represents one aspect of the principle of treating like as like , it can be seen as common perceptual property for all sentient organisms .
29 It must surely be significant that in an age when the evidence for women as writers is so sparse , two out of the five writers here discussed are women and that both present their spirituality nourished by physical debility , coloured by gender-specific terms , and very evidently rooted in the affective piety stimulated by the visual iconography of the Incarnation ; although both found these to be factors which precipitated their experience of transcendent being and for Julian , in particular , they triggered her sense of that which is ineffable .
30 It must surely be better than renting an apartment in a noisy holiday complex . ’
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