Example sentences of "must [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 In this post-welfare state , travellers are reminded of their duty to give up their seat to old ladies by a designated seat , post offices can not trust the customers to queue so they erect mazes through which one must wind before being served .
2 The haulier and the other contracting party must want to be bound contractually by their promises .
3 Kid must want to be a Disney cartoon villainess when she grows up .
4 I have no right to go against what I must presume to be his wishes ? ’
5 At the very least , Hong Kong must prepare to be a little more self-reliant for growth in the 1990s : public spending , particularly on infrastructural projects , is likely to assume a bigger and more virtuous role .
6 We will continue to look at er the future programme er we will also as you know , look at ballistic missile defence which is another element to this and that must need to be fact facted in as well but I think clearly we are not talking about in the medium term er and longer term , we are talking about er a fairly late stage of the programme .
7 There 's a sort of nasty perverted curiosity in me — I mean , all the women he 's had and all the things he must know about being in bed .
8 ‘ Now all we must wait for is the kettle .
9 Whether you be a district sales executive , a vice-president finance or an operations manager , you must strive to be the best in your chosen area .
10 The moral decline of the West cries out for a return to the morals of protestant Christianity which will tell the nation what they must do to be strong once more .
11 Business environment : the environment in which the organisation operates will determine what it must do to be a success .
12 To non-riders dressage must appear to be the art of making the noble horse look like a wally with an even bigger wally on top in fancy dress .
13 such gifts must appear to be left ‘ by accident ’ .
14 Writer and creator Kevin Fegan combines humour , razor-sharp observations and occasional flex of his poetic licence to shed a little light on what , to outsiders , must appear to be a very peculiar practice .
15 Witnesses and documents located there are required to be taken out of that country for production before the authorities of the United States or before persons acting with the backing of the courts of that country ; it must appear to be an attempt to give world-wide application to the procedural rules of the United States .
16 Putting one 's self in Stalin 's shoes , the present period of indecision must appear to be an opportune moment for him to step into the arena to suggest to Japan that she should make peace with the Kremlin and with Peking .
17 However , these interests can not conflict too directly , but must appear to be consonant .
18 He 's built almost 3 different teams in the past 5 years , got us promotion , a league title and we 're now in second place , which is where we must finish to be assured of a European place .
19 He must expect to be asked , like the woman , about his recent sexual encounters and whether a condom was used or not .
20 He was trying to pick her up , of course , but any Wren new to the flotilla must expect to be fair game , she acknowledged , especially in a base so isolated , where women were outnumbered by fifty to one .
21 In Margaret Thatcher 's day , most people thought that complaining was a waste of time ; but a ‘ listening ’ Government must expect to be shouted at , loud and long .
22 ‘ Everyone who had a possible interest in your brother 's death must expect to be thoroughly investigated . ’
23 I love Ma , but she must expect to be unhappy because she 's reached that time of life .
24 It was a wise statesman who once said , ‘ Men must choose to be governed by God or they condemn themselves to be ruled by tyrants . ’
25 If Hell exists , it must consist of being eternally sick on a ship which crosses the Narrow Seas but never reaches shore .
26 How odd it must feel to be a stranger in an alien country , where even the faces on the stamps had no meaning .
27 I still wondered though , how it must feel to be a German .
28 He went into her giant bathroom to take his mind off things and stood there awhile between her mirrors , thinking not particularly of how he looked himself but mostly of the inflections that she had caught from Fred , and also of how it must feel to be this negligently perfect child , who had obviously never in her life spent herself combating a flaw .
29 It is really worth saying to all who are married or who will be one day , and particularly to those who are maintaining painful relationships , you must work at being generous to your partner .
30 ‘ I must remember to be cautiously optimistic about that , there 's nothing definite . ’
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