Example sentences of "must be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got a new car and it 's already got 23,000 on the clock , and three-quarters of that must be to the club . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ A clinician 's first duty must be to the patient , ’ said one . |
| 3 | The more the star has moved at the end of the Earth 's journey of 186 million miles , the closer it must be to the solar system . |
| 4 | This , to repeat a point made earlier , does not mean that their sole role must be to further the interest of each or of all their subjects . |
| 5 | The message to the consumer of these services , if he or she is dissatisfied , must be to ‘ vote with your feet ’ . |
| 6 | Oh how wonderful it must be to be an indie musician ! |
| 7 | If Labour is to have a role in Scotland , then it surely must be to be in the forefront of that fight with the Scottish people . |
| 8 | Further to Micheal Meacher 's article on the censorship of whistleblower ( ‘ Shut up or get out ’ , 1 May ) , nurses , midwives and health visitors are clearly enjoined by their regulatory body , the United Kingdom Central Council ( UKCC ) , that their first loyalty must be to their patients or clients . |
| 9 | How wonderful it must be to be a great artist like Mr Beaumont or a musician like Mr Fergus or even a teacher like half the church . |
| 10 | It must be to the south , across Teviot , for the Tweed , to the north , was the greater river , with no fords nor bridges available for a considerable distance upstream ; and downstream , at Kelso , the Scots could be trapped too easily . |
| 11 | ‘ God and the King ’ , he proclaimed , ‘ are so in a league … as one can not be enemy to the one , but that he must be to the other . |
| 12 | I used to wonder just what the kestrel was looking at , what it was thinking , and I 'd imagine how wonderful it must be to be suspended in mid-air , looking down on the Earth as it was . |
| 13 | Mysticism , in particular , is as meaningless to me as music must be to the tone deaf . |
| 14 | If the mind is so conceived that its relation to the world can only be a causal one , then to perceive something must be to be causally affected by it . |
| 15 | Since the aim of adoption must always be to provide a child without parents with an environment which will foster normal development , the commitment must be to the child , not to the parents or to the agency . |
| 16 | The aim of the business leader must be to be the best , for only the best command their own destiny and achieve the sort of rewards that are sought for themselves and their people . |
| 17 | It is sometimes quite incredible the kind of information people expect the reception desk to supply , but generally it takes the form of questions about train , bus and taxi services , which means up-to-date timetables and the telephone numbers of the local taxi services must be to hand . |
| 18 | We have to confess that we are at a stage of understanding where any answer must be to some extent tentative . |
| 19 | ‘ Sure God save us , ’ they would say , ‘ is n't it soft in the head the poor man must be to be carrying round an old gun for to fight the Rooskies ? ’ |
| 20 | Although they are , they must be to the people concerned but I mean , a pet 's usually a dog , cat or bird is n't it ? |
| 21 | ‘ I was thinking how very unpleasant it must be to be shot . ’ |
| 22 | But just for a moment she had felt the weight of emptiness , she had felt how it must be to be shut away down here , bereft of even human companionship , away from the light , losing count of the days . |
| 23 | Dustbins ( either metal or plastic ) must be to British Standards — look for the ‘ kitemark ’ . |
| 24 | There is no appeal from the decision of a county court registrar to the county court judge ; the appeal must be to a single judge -of the High Court ( Re a Debtor ( No 39 of 1974 ) ( 1977 ) 3 All ER489 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ That Lehzen handed over to the nation a potentially great queen must be to her credit ’ ( Longford ) . |
| 26 | In the view of the Director of the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education , there is an iron curtain separating public sector higher education in Wales from the University of Wales whose existence must be to the detriment of the young people of Wales . |
| 27 | In the case of a company without share capital the return will give no particulars of the members ; to ascertain that , resort must be to the company . |
| 28 | This contrasts with the racial hatred offence , where the distribution must be to the public or a section of the public . |
| 29 | My responsibility must be to truth , not to society , which is corrupt . |
| 30 | The objectives in setting a fee structure must be to : |