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

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1 When we finally make proposals to build a repository we must be confident they will satisfy safety standards that are amongst the toughest in the world .
2 As we write for an instrument we must be playing it in our imagination , with the right bowings and fingerings , feeling the sensations of different registers , expressing ourselves through the different tones and timbres , the possibilities of legato , staccato , vibrato , etc .
3 Yet even on this issue we must be cautious : marriage was an irrevocable step ; though death almost as often and as rapidly parted married couples in the twelfth century as it does in the twentieth , a prince might well take careful thought before he threw the dice , just as , even then , a prudent man might spend many years looking for the woman of his choice .
4 In the general interest of certainty in the law we must be sure that there is some very good reason before we so act .
5 Davidoff and Hall have recently underlined not only the strong conception of ministerial leadership possessed by John Angell James at Carr 's Lane in Birmingham — ‘ We occupy a very public station ; like the angel standing in the sun we must be seen ’ — but demonstrated his ability to lead his chapel in alignment with Anglican reformers to work for antislavery , temperance and projects of moral benevolence within the community .
6 Of course we must be concerned for justice , and for where justice is violated .
7 I 'm afraid she has a most irreverent attitude — and some of our gentlemen have quite a wide circle of acquaintances , so of course we must be able to offer complete discretion … ’
8 Of course we must be cautious about taking on difficult tasks as if to prove our social virility .
9 ‘ If I managed to get it home with the help of a cabbie we must be able to move it between the two of us .
10 In the end , however , to diminish the welfare of some animals is a price we must be willing to pay for making the world better for others , both human and nonhuman . ’
11 But to be able to include these indications intelligently and with musicianship we must be able to play in our minds .
12 There is no totally ‘ green ’ energy source and if we want to help the environment we must be sparing with what we use and campaign for renewable energy sources — like wind , wave and solar power — to be invested in and taken more seriously .
13 I have a feeling we must be just a few miles from the River Seine .
14 While holding fast to clear moral principles about the sanctity of life we must be equally clear about principles concerning the means to be taken to protect life .
15 The muddled thinking that makes us claim at least some vague idea of what God is leads us disastrously to thinking that if we say God can not be one kind of thing we must be saying he is the other .
16 And I ca n't help realising what a strain we must be on you . "
17 Before submitting the document we must be sure that a full Information memorandum exists , and ideally the data on input form should be taken from the completed Information memorandum .
18 The legend must go — but at the same time we must be careful not to let the queen out with the asses ' milk .
19 In other words , to explain or understand crime and deviance we must be at least as much concerned with the activities of the conferers of these labels as with the recipients .
20 As we explained in the AEA Times bulletin we have not yet resolved all the issues and to some extent we must be flexible in taking account of the way Government thinking develops .
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