Example sentences of "[pron] must be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does make a sort of sense : everyone must be born and die , but how many general directors nowadays last even a respectable fraction of 20 years ? |
| 2 | Everyone must be made to remember that this is one country , the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan . ’ |
| 3 | With the obvious exception of Clement Freud [ Note : that 's Sir Clement Freud who said on our 150th anniversary , ‘ I would do nothing for Punch except cheer for its demise . ’ ] , everyone must be saddened by this week 's news . |
| 4 | In 1666 a law was passed that everyone must be buried in wool . |
| 5 | It is small wonder that the tree is an endangered species when you consider how many of them must be chopped down to provide one week 's worth of trade press . |
| 6 | Quality Control activities can be very costly , and since they represent an overhead cost in the production area , the degree of time and resources spent on them must be related to factors such as price , consistency , safety and legal requirements , for example . |
| 7 | In this discussion we shall have to make frequent use of the terms cost and expenses of production ; and some provisional account of them must be given before proceeding further . |
| 8 | If muggers can be deterred by punitive sentencing , then some of them must be made an example of . |
| 9 | Thus any differences between them must be caused , not by the shock , but by the fact that the mouse in the cage with the shelf is learning an avoidance response . |
| 10 | Similarly , although the smallness of the samples of 16th , 17th , and 18th Century publications in need of repair means that conclusions about them must be treated with some caution , it is worth noting that if all pre-1800 items are treated as a group and the proportion of them allocated to each of Categories 3–5 calculated , their pattern of distribution ( ‘ Poor' 78% ; ‘ Bad ’ 18% ; ‘ Fragile ’ 7% ) comes close to matching that already established for all defective items . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , anyone phoning who wants to buy shiny tights with the word ‘ climb ’ on them must be referred to The Samaritans . |
| 12 | We ordinarily think of values and obligations being really there , but we also think of them as intrinsically prescriptive. that is , such that one who knows them must be affected conatively in an appropriate way . |
| 13 | ‘ Some of them must be educated . ’ |
| 14 | These are only a few of the choices before them , but even these are very difficult to prioritize and at times some of them must be sacrificed at the expense of others in this play . |
| 15 | The whole question of an adequate income in retirement can be achieved , and changes necessary to enable them must be worked at . |
| 16 | Capitalism is a system for the production of commodities , and to produce these commodities the things used to produce them must be reproduced , i.e. in its simplest sense , reproduction means the reproduction of labour power . |
| 17 | In order to infer that the effect of X on Y is a direct causal effect , any variable which is related to both X and Y and causally prior to at least one of them must be controlled . |
| 18 | She reminded herself that nothing must be touched or disturbed . |
| 19 | Nothing must be done to give the Tunnel an unfair advantage vis-a-vis other modes of cross-Channel transport and this includes investment in Tunnel related infrastructure . |
| 20 | Victor Mature , who has given so much pleasure in his day that nothing must be said against him , is , however , not wholly convincing sitting in a cell wearing a leather mini-skirt , reading Pythagoras . |
| 21 | In the , when we dealt with the matter of children and communion , we based the whole case upon the doctrine that nothing must be allowed to stand in the way of the grace of God being available for all and sundry . |
| 22 | Nothing must be allowed to stand in the way of that . |
| 23 | Nothing must be allowed to interfere . |
| 24 | Nothing must be allowed to happen to him . |
| 25 | As Rowntree put it , life on the poverty line is governed by the regulation that ‘ nothing must be bought but what is absolutely necessary for the maintenance of physical health ’ ( Rowntree , 1941 , p. 103 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ When he discovered I wanted to be an actor he felt deeply responsible and thought I must be stopped . ’ |
| 27 | At the moment I can find no evidence of concussion , but any blow to the head can be potentially dangerous , so if there is nausea or blurred vision I must be called immediately . ’ |
| 28 | He explained that first I must promise not to fight against Lilliput or hurt Lilliputians , and that I must be searched for weapons . |
| 29 | If I am to show what I can do I must be given a chance to make my own complete performance . |
| 30 | I simply could n't believe it … it did n't seem to make sense and I thought I must be mistaken but I 'm sure I was n't … ’ |