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

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1 To be suitable for food environment application a disinfectant must be odourless , of low mammalian toxicity , non corrosive and non-tainting .
2 The person ( of any age ) must suffer from a mental disorder as defined in the Act and enforced guardianship must be necessary for the welfare of the patient or the protection of others .
3 If certain forms of history stress continuity , try to account for change , the history of science by contrast must be disjointed , for it is made up of a series of corrections in which the errors of the past have to be simply discarded .
4 Does the Secretary of State accept that if local government is to be local , it is essential that we do not repeat the mistakes of the 1973-74 reorganisation and that any reorganisation must be acceptable to local people ?
5 This function must be identical to the vertical movement of the lower connecting point of the link member , PARTD .
6 The BIOS and the PC must be capable of shadowing — that is copying the contents of slow ROM , such as the BIOS or VGA BIOS , into faster RAM , thus speeding up the system .
7 Customers of our systems division must be convinced that Olivetti really will still be around in five years ’ time .
8 No change must be good .
9 The time course of the change must be compatible with the time course of memory formation .
10 Then the velocities must be small compared with c , the gravitational fields will be small and their rates of change must be slow .
11 If , for clinical reasons , a GP wishes to refer a patient to a hospital that is not contracted to provide a service to the GP 's district , the GP must be able to do so . ’
12 However , as with any grammatical category , a translator working from a language with a category of number into one without such a category must be careful not to overspecify this type of information in the target text .
13 This grammatical tag must be compatible with those that the corpus was tagged with .
14 For musicians , the lure of the West must be strong , and for reasons as understandable as basic working conditions and standard of living , but as a result we stand at a crossroads : how can we possibly avoid the continuing standardization of orchestral , instrumental and vocal production , and continue to have the opportunity of hearing music played in a style and tradition for which it was probably originally conceived .
15 If the seller can not supply , for any reason , even if it is outside his control , then the buyer must be entitled to terminate the agreement and look elsewhere .
16 The duties of seller and buyer under an open sale contract are " concurrent conditions " so that , if the contract is silent , " the seller must be ready and willing to give possession of the goods to the buyer in exchange for the price , and the buyer must be ready and willing to pay the price in exchange for possession of the goods " ( SGA 1979 , s28 ) .
17 The computer must be fit for the purpose you specify .
18 His Mum must be mad .
19 Since the winding resistance contributes 1 ohm to the total phase resistance : Forcing resistance = 19 ohms This resistance must be able to dissipate the power losses when the phase is continuously excited by the rated current ( 2 A ) .
20 Unless only the name and address are given with accommodation measurements ( which of course must be accurate ) they may be liable under the Act .
21 ‘ Mind you , ’ George said abruptly , ‘ that certificate must be sheer balls because he 'd have to use his roadname on it .
22 Rather , like the bridesmaids who were prepared and who went to celebrate with joy , the Christian must be ready for Jesus to return .
23 magnet field must be weak compared to the field produced by the winding currents .
24 ‘ The man in the field must be prepared to work on his own and work conscientiously .
25 Owing to axial symmetry the magnetic field must be constant at a radius R , hence the application of Ampère 's law yields
26 Postclassical criminology must be alive to both of these considerations .
27 Expenditure by one party will be equivalent to income for another , and so total income must be equal to aggregate expenditure in the domestic circular flow .
28 It is an essential part of the input process that text must be subject to validation before its release for editing .
29 ‘ Johnston Press has started 1993 encouragingly and the prospects of further progress must be good , ’ he added .
30 If it is to form part of science , an hypothesis must be falsifiable .
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