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

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1 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 .
2 My responsibility must be to truth , not to society , which is corrupt .
3 I think the committee as a whole wanted to be cautious because as has been said earlier our main prime responsibility must be to those who need rest home or nursing home care and have nobody else to fund them .
4 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 .
5 Their conclusion was that most of the road signs in such studies are in fact initially detected and that differences found between signs and the poor overall performance in the Johansson and Rumar study must be to a large extent a memory effect .
6 ‘ That Lehzen handed over to the nation a potentially great queen must be to her credit ’ ( Longford ) .
7 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 .
8 This contrasts with the racial hatred offence , where the distribution must be to the public or a section of the public .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Mysticism , in particular , is as meaningless to me as music must be to the tone deaf .
12 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 .
13 ‘ 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 ? ’
14 We have to confess that we are at a stage of understanding where any answer must be to some extent tentative .
15 The application must be to the district judge if made by him ( Ord 29 , r 3(2) ) .
16 ‘ A clinician 's first duty must be to the patient , ’ said one .
17 The objectives in setting a fee structure must be to :
18 The speaker who uses it feels himself or herself to be stating , with an explicitness not found in the merely qualifying adjective , even when it is ascriptive , that the property expressed does hold of the entity identified by the whole noun phrase ; an inevitable concomitant is that the postnominal adjective must be to a certain extent salient in the situation where it is used .
19 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 ) .
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