Example sentences of "must [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Given the present and foreseeable state of fishery resources in the Community and the degree to which fishing fleets have so far been restructured , the full-scale liberalisation of the activities of undertakings must be ruled out for the time being … |
| 2 | To reproduce the slurring of the chords on to the octave D on the 3rd beat of each bar a pianistic effect — the chords must be tied over to a quaver on the 3rd beat , the bassoons , tuba , double bass ( pizz. ) , timpani , and bass drum supplying the octave Ds . |
| 3 | Mr Grayson replied : ‘ If we can assume that the same degree of care is taken in all countries showing — and I think it is true , certainly , of Switzerland and West Germany — beech observations , then you could certainly say that the health of beech trees reflected in crown condition must be borne out by observation . ’ |
| 4 | and er it must be borne in upon them that the alternative for us are not having money to keep up our roads programme is going to be very dangerous therefore I think there is no question that the recent test programme is the second priority for concern . |
| 5 | To achieve that , different sets of genes must be shut off in different cells , and shut off heritably — so that , for example , a dividing liver cell produces another liver cell and a dividing skin cell another skin cell , despite having all the genes at its disposal to produce any kind of cell it fancies . |
| 6 | Canine control must be stepped up by April 1 under new Government rules . |
| 7 | He denounced democracy as a psychopathic expression of inferiority and compromise as an aberration that must be crushed out of existence . |
| 8 | Many settlements withered during the late Middle Ages but did not die until the Elizabethan or Stuart era when a local lord decided that corn production was no longer economical and that the arable land must be given over to cattle and sheep pastures . |
| 9 | The certificate of membership remains the property of the HCIMA and must be given up on resignation . |
| 10 | To apply a mathematical system , as in measurement , objects in the target domain ( for brevity we can call this the social world ) must be mapped on to objects , that is numbers , in the mathematical domain . |
| 11 | The dog food comes in frozen slabs that must be cut up with a felling axe . |
| 12 | Candidates who exceed the quota are considered to have " too many " votes and must be cut down to size by having their surplus taken away . |
| 13 | Libraries in general have an image of unparticularized worthiness and sobriety , and many young librarians have an admirable messianic zeal about them , a firm belief that what their library has is good for people and that membership lists and issue figures must be pushed up for their own sake . |
| 14 | I set the punchcard on lock and proceed as usual , select a group of needles to be used as the motif and push all others back to WP ( needles must be pushed back on every row ) . |
| 15 | In that case the net must be gathered up with extreme care , since care taken now will mean the net can be set that much more easily at the next site . |
| 16 | As soon as a girl reaches puberty , which is celebrated as a life cycle rite , she must be manned off outside the family and its clan group . |
| 17 | He must be getting on for seventy , and we need a younger head groom . ’ |
| 18 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |
| 19 | How , he wondered , did one set about finding a woman , last heard of in Cornwall , whose surname was Carrow — that is , if she had n't remarried — and a child who he supposed must be getting on for four . |
| 20 | ‘ Ooh , well , let's see now , I s'pose it must be getting on for six weeks , now , ’ Cyril said . |
| 21 | It must be getting on for eleven years now since … ’ |
| 22 | And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi . |
| 23 | But he must n't forget that it was a great occasion for old Willis , who must be getting on for sixty-live , ready to take the knock any day now . |
| 24 | Her dad must be getting on for seventy she looks as though |
| 25 | Well you must be getting on for a hundred , because I believe you were in the Boar War , were n't you ? |
| 26 | And you must be getting on with your exciting adventures . |
| 27 | So we must be getting round to Sue 's question . |
| 28 | ‘ Must be getting back to Brigade H.Q , Sarge , ’ I remarked as I picked up my rifle and prepared to leave . |
| 29 | ‘ The bullies must be stood up to , ’ Nevil said . |
| 30 | There are stories of gangs of roughs waylaying cyclists and pelting them with stones , and in one case a South London cowboy was brought before Lambeth court for lassoing cyclists — ‘ a kind of horseplay that must be stamped out at once ’ said the magistrate , with good reason . |