Example sentences of "it must [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , that must heat a bit , and it must smell a bit . |
| 2 | When no legal action is to be taken the local authority must consider whether it would be appropriate to review the case at a later stage and , if so , it must fix a review date ( s37(6) ) . |
| 3 | Because fruit is not very nutritious in proportion to its bulk , animals that eat it must consume a lot . |
| 4 | The freewheeling diode has to withstand a reverse voltage equal to the d.c. supply voltage when the transistor is conducting and it must conduct a peak forward current equal to the rated phase current when the transistor first turns off . |
| 5 | Because of the , the tinkering around it must do a bit of |
| 6 | This will also be true of any concept , because by definition the concept ‘ can not capture the absolutely-other ’ ; and , to the extent that it must invoke a form of generality , of language itself . |
| 7 | A bureaucracy , on balance , promotes efficiency in larger organisations , but it must achieve a balance whereby rules are impersonal but not inhuman , the structure is organised but not rigid , and employees are loyal without being unthinking conformists . |
| 8 | At the end of the nineteen twenties the policy from Moscow , not just to the Chinese Communist Party but actually to communist parties all over the world swings dramatically to the left and Stalin is arguing that there 's , there are going to be revolutionary explosions all over the world the Communist Party must forge its own path , it must put itself at the head of these struggles , it must give a lead to the masses by launching insurrections and so on and so forth . |
| 9 | It must hold a king 's ransom in los gold and silver . |
| 10 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 11 | If the Home Office really wants to stop the abuse of children and the rape of women , it must pass a law allowing the castration of the perpetrators , not for a first offence , in case there is a mistake , but for a second offence — unless people are unfit to plead . |
| 12 | But when all this is fully recognised yet the law , in some circumstances , reserves a right to say that a contract is in restraint of trade and that to be enforceable it must pass a test of reasonableness . |
| 13 | In fact , various conditions are laid down in the section itself ; in particular that the nature of the document must be made clear , and that it must contain a statement by the company 's auditors of their opinion on whether the statement is consistent with the accounts and reports and complies with the section and the regulations . |
| 14 | If the court wishes to regulate the child 's contact with anyone while a supervision order is in force it must make a contact order under s8 . |
| 15 | If the LEA 's decision is that it should determine the provision that should be made , it must make a statement of the child 's special educational needs , in a form prescribed by regulation . |
| 16 | However , it must remain a background thought in our minds and not be an obstacle to our concentration on the melodic creation . |
| 17 | Preserving such diversity in the context of diminishing INSET budgets and the trend to school-led INSET is going to become increasingly difficult , but since it is very much in the interests of the professional health of the teaching force it must remain a priority . |
| 18 | The construct chain in line A is open to many interpretations , but the phrase a highway for our God' in line B is unambiguous : it must mean a road for Yahweh to wall : along-just as a " highway for the remnant of his people " in Isa 11.16 , and a " way for the redeemed to pass over " in 51.10 are paths for Israel to wall : on . |
| 19 | Inwardly praying that she might be able to show her piety and understanding , she said , ‘ Yes , I 'm sure it must mean a lot to you . |
| 20 | It must mean a lot to her if it made her cry . |
| 21 | If an advertisement identifies particular goods it must state a cash price or prices . |
| 22 | Ifor Evans , writing a few issues later , goes much further : " if aesthetic criticism is to become a reputable study , as honest and sober as philology , it must develop a method and vocabulary as precise and exacting as those of the physical sciences " , so as to be able " to describe with an almost mathematical rigidity the content of a poetic creation or an aesthetic theory " . |
| 23 | If the Commission decides that the Regulation does not apply , it must take a decision to that effect ( which is capable of challenge ) . |
| 24 | And it takes it must take a lot longer to produce a plane like the Tornado and a Spitfire or a Lancaster in erm the days of erm nineteen forty three |
| 25 | It must learn a way of life ; in sociological terminology , it must learn the ‘ culture ’ of its society . |
| 26 | Like solid fuel and lpg , you need to store it — in a tank accessible for refuelling by tanker — and the boilers that burn it must have a flue . |
| 27 | I see that the title is down as Historical Memory , but I would prefer to call it , if it must have a title , Memory of History . |
| 28 | By refusing to include theory , the department is , in effect , refusing to declare its own theoretical standpoint : it must have a standpoint , for it is impossible to judge or measure the correctness of someone 's ‘ affective ’ or ‘ quasi-sensuous ’ response ; yet English departments do examine and judge people 's performance , just like any other department . |
| 29 | It must have a range of three hundred yards . |
| 30 | It must have a nest close by with , perhaps , ‘ five eggs , pen scribbled o'er with ink/ their shells resembling writing scrolls ’ . |