Example sentences of "[noun sg] must be [verb] to be " in BNC.

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1 But the promise in the present case must be taken to be , as in fact it was , express : and the question is , whether that fact will warrant the extension of the promise beyond that which would be implied by law ; and whether the consideration , though insufficient to raise an implied promise , will nevertheless support an express one .
2 The lead adviser must be seen to be controlling the progress of the transaction and therefore it is useful to appoint a chairman for each progress meeting which should be attended by the principals and the senior member of each professional team .
3 But the deal must be seen to be fair to all farmers in the United Kingdom because their circumstances vary depending on the country and the area in which they farm .
4 Land reform is one of the crucial ( and most controversial ) matters facing the newly elected Hungarian parliament and present law must be considered to be ephemeral .
5 The current definition of unfitness ( under the Housing Act 1957 ) lists nine items in which a dwelling must be found to be ‘ reasonably suitable for occupation … ’ .
6 ‘ But you said that morality must be seen to be something superficial . ’
7 It is important to note that the Act does not require all landowners to fence against the highway : in moorland areas of Wales and the north of England this would be an intolerable burden and in such areas a motorist must be expected to be on the look out for straying livestock .
8 Resource management must be demonstrated to be linked to a client orientation , hence the criticality of involving users in specifying care and quality parameters .
9 It should also be noted that at the beginning of an assignment , the composition of both vendor and purchaser must be known to be able to consider taking advantage of this exclusion .
10 It was apparent that his attendance at the coming Party Conference must be assumed to be very unlikely , and that the question of replacing him as leader could arise .
11 Trainees who flunked the examination must be seen to be rebuked .
12 Such textual analysis , undertaken with a feminist pair of eyes , is uncovering the depth at which sexism must be seen to be present in the text .
13 Lastly , it is worth pointing out that that presence in the territory of the country of establishment must be intended to be permanent , or at least of an indefinite duration , because if that were not the case there would be no distinction between establishment and the supply of services .
14 He seems to be saying that the product must be seen to be either cheaper or different if people are to buy it .
15 In the ultimate resort also , the association of a constituency must be held to be the proper exponent of its wishes . "
16 Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position .
17 To remedy this , he suggests that arts education must be shown to be " vocational " , which is to say that arts should be shown to provide education for living , acting , doing , knowing , thinking , and enjoying .
18 The planetary guard of a godling despot must be assumed to be numerous and very well armed — though how well experienced ?
19 in its statement of claim must be assumed to be correct .
20 And the operation must be seen to be multinational , so the UK contingent should ideally be increased to brigade strength — which underlines the case for reprieving the Highland regiments .
21 It is also the case that people 's sex can not be held to be an effect of their job or their work record ; sex must be assumed to be causally prior to both of these variables .
22 The theological justification behind such an approach ( not that I had necessarily thought this out at the time when I was a member of the church ) must surely be that God 's will must be held to be one with what is good , and therefore what Christianity proclaims can not differ from human ethical goods .
23 The Government must be seen to be green .
24 The organization and reorganization of the state must be understood to be at least as much the product of the wishes of state officials as of social pressures .
25 The links with the sixth form must be seen to be strong 80 that the risk of leakage to the county provision at 16 is minimised .
26 The condition of a book must be seen to be realised , and condition more than anything else nowadays dictates value and will continue to dictate it .
27 First , the benefit attributable to the patent must be shown to be current at the time of the employee 's application ; the prospect of future benefits such as royalty payments from foreign sub-licensees is only relevant to the quantum of compensation awarded should outstanding benefit be proved .
28 Emphasis must be put on the task , individuals must accept the need to modify their views for its sake , and group effort must be seen to be superior to individual effort .
29 In that event science must be seen to be relevant to the issues which concern them .
30 In order that a workstation on the network ( see Figure 4.3 ) can be used for a required purpose , that purpose must be found to be in agreement with the overall management plan .
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