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

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1 He or she must be confident about delegating responsibility for aspects of the Compact programme to appropriate members of staff .
2 Everyone knew about Billy 's woman , but he kept her hidden and it was supposed she must be married .
3 So presumably she must be Japanese .
4 She could not see why her mother wanted her , nor what she expected her to do in Northam , and whenever she mentioned the subject to others they exclaimed in horror , commiserating with her , telling her that she must be firm , never for half a moment assuming that she could or would really do it .
5 She must be firm .
6 She must be well down the birth rates .
7 For the sake of Oreste , she must be cool and calm and take matters into her own hands instead of waiting so feebly for fate to help her .
8 She must be strong to leave like that , to make plans for leaving and carry them out .
9 Then she must be placid and patient ’ ( p.97 ) .
10 She must be tired , for a delicious languor was stealing over her .
11 She must be magnanimous .
12 Still , she must be grateful to Benedict , who had been her ‘ champion ’ , and glad that the old understanding had been re-established between herself and Lady Merchiston .
13 She knew that she must be alive
14 She must be successful sometimes or she would n't make her living at it . ’
15 When it eventually dawned on Liza that she must be pregnant , she began to panic .
16 When she belatedly realised that she must be pregnant she could not tell the Englishman , because he was away from the camp leading an action against an important German supply dump .
17 They thought she must be daft . ’
18 I arrived ten minutes before the train was leaving , wearing a headscarf , and attached myself to a group of schoolchildren , chatting to their teacher about how smart they were and she must be proud .
19 Eleanor Mary Milligan , as she was hastily christened the same week her mother was buried , seemed to know from the moment she came into this world at number 1015 Westfield Avenue that in order to survive she must be good and quiet , and not be any trouble to her father or brothers .
20 Suddenly too , as a kind of tension caught at her , she knew that while , because of her love for Ven , she could be on very shaky ground here , she must be brave , and stay no matter what , and hear him out .
21 So she must be flashy for Purdy , devastatingly accurate for Roy .
22 She must be thrilled .
23 The right woman for Silas will want to stay here with him — and she must be ready to share the running of this place with him . ’
24 And , in order to do that , she must be sympathetic !
25 ‘ There were , like , 50 people in the emergency room and someone there figured , ‘ Pop star in an emergency room whose face is green — she must be OD-ing . ’ ’
26 She had gone about in awe of these adults , to whom she must-not chatter , before whom she must be silent and polite and smiling .
27 Emily sighed with relief , she must be alone , she must have time to think things out .
28 She must be alone in the house .
29 Every week there was a succession of motorbike accidents through the department , many serious , some fatal — she must be insane .
30 It would be possible for him to wear her down , so she must be ultra-careful and protect herself .
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