Example sentences of "must [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largest questions the members of a management partnership must answer are whether sharing is practicable , whether its members believe in it and how long — if it is a reality — it takes the outside world to believe that it can provide the promised level of quality . |
| 2 | The question we must answer is : ‘ If I am going to buy a plane , how much will it cost me and how can I get the money ? ’ |
| 3 | The question that the Secretary of State must answer is — |
| 4 | The question that the Government must answer is whether , if they were to maintain their stand-back attitude and what they call their options , British investors — not simply inward investors — who want to sell their produce throughout the Community and the rest of Europe would give priority to investing and developing in Britain when they had every reason to believe that the Government were ever ready to withdraw from the European process . |
| 5 | Other points that the intervention must stress are consistency and determination . |
| 6 | But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services . |
| 7 | The fourth point that the draftsman must cover is the possible abandonment of the index . |
| 8 | Maxim felt a moment of total disorientation before he realised that something must have gone badly wrong , that because she had not greeted him he must stay being Winterbotham , that because they were strangers he must make the first move . |
| 9 | Even the soldiers in the field must 've been thoroughly sick of all those whining pieces about Our Boys and Girls , and their mail , or the endlessly recycled nonsense about how hard it was to be a female soldier in Saudi Arabia . |
| 10 | Drivers must 've been celebrating too . |
| 11 | ‘ You must 've been crazy ! ’ she told herself . |
| 12 | Jackson must 've been under the effects of the anaesthetic after a nose job to come out with something so bad . |
| 13 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 14 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 15 | I 'm coming up a hill near some kind of huge church or cathedral — there must 've been a service or a concert going on because people are pouring out — one of them 's singing a high trill and her boyfriend 's cross : ‘ Please , Miranda ! |
| 16 | I said , ‘ What I told you before — you were dreaming , you must 've been dreaming , you know . |
| 17 | ‘ It must 've been Helga . |
| 18 | A sliver of white that must 've been teeth . |
| 19 | It must 've been the pipe . |
| 20 | ‘ You must 've been surprised when I answered the door . ’ |
| 21 | And suddenly he remembered standing here , it was dark-green all around him , but the sky above was blue , the sun must 've been setting , it was quiet , just the creak of a tree , the whir of an insect 's wing , he 'd been standing motionless , as if in a trance , and then he heard a voice , his mother 's voice . |
| 22 | They 'd dived , you see , but eventually they had to surface — the air must 've been getting bad — and up they came , drew nearly alongside a German destroyer the pack had left behind when they called off the hunt , waiting there , just in case Taureg surfaced . |
| 23 | Ma McKeown said thirteen must 've been her lucky number because she never had no more after that one . |
| 24 | Everybody says , ‘ Oh , you won £44,000 in the world championships , you must 've been really pleased with that , ’ but it 's not just the money , it 's being able to pick up the trophy at the end — that 's the nice thing . |
| 25 | And the kitchen was just through there and er my mother when she used to bake and cook er the blue smoke would be everywhere and er it must have been terrible when you think about it you know , terrible , it must 've been . |
| 26 | Christ , he must 've been good . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It must 've been someone walking home from the pub . ’ |
| 28 | It must 've been her . ’ |
| 29 | I begin to get some idea of what the Roman games must 've been like . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said . |