Example sentences of "must [vb infin] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largest questions the members of a management partnership must answer are whether sharing is practicable , whether its members believe in it and how long — if it is a reality — it takes the outside world to believe that it can provide the promised level of quality . |
| 2 | The question that the Government must answer is whether , if they were to maintain their stand-back attitude and what they call their options , British investors — not simply inward investors — who want to sell their produce throughout the Community and the rest of Europe would give priority to investing and developing in Britain when they had every reason to believe that the Government were ever ready to withdraw from the European process . |
| 3 | Oh and , well it must 've been since we were at Malton so we 'd 've had it , what , about four three or four years when we went to Malton ? |
| 4 | It must 've been while I was stood up there . |
| 5 | well where was I ? , oh , must 've been when I went to the loo Have you had a drink Martin ? |
| 6 | The unfortunate fact that my right hon. Friend must recognise is that the current treaty has been negotiated by the current Government , who do not share our sense of priorities . |
| 7 | So what we must consider is that whether a team performance is more important than an individual 's performance do n't forget that it is easy ( relatively ) to mark him out of a game compared to marking 11 men out off game . |
| 8 | ‘ What you must understand is that even convicts have a twisted code of ethics that they live by . |
| 9 | Therefore , all we must hope is that Tendulkar hears the right voices in the crowd when he has edged a few seaming balls at Headingley into the gloves of the ‘ keeper and when the tiny bundle of sweaters frozen in the outfield at Middlesbrough drops a catch . |
| 10 | What the Test & County Cricket Board must decide is whether they want the Minors in or not . |
| 11 | The question that Englishmen yes , and Englishwomen must decide is whether or not they are prepared to knuckle under to the unspeakable creep Mathews , the demented McLachlan and the absurd Bottomley . |
| 12 | He told magistrates : ‘ What you must decide is whether Mr Sturdy knew the tapes to be counterfeits . ’ |
| 13 | Another argument I must meet is that while it is one thing to tolerate behaviour and remove criminal sanctions , in this case concerning homosexual activities , it is quite another thing to facilitate and give recognition to unions built on such activities . |
| 14 | What you must recognize is that the answers given to the questions will affect the outcome of the research . |
| 15 | The point that the basic rate taxpayer must note is that once all the charges — in particular the annual management fee — are taken into account , then the net benefit of being in the PEP could be seriously eroded or even disappear altogether . |
| 16 | I suppose there must have been but I ca n't remember . |
| 17 | It must have been after I moved . ’ |
| 18 | Indeed , if it was not clear before she went to Australia , it must have been before she left , that only when she has once more played in The Championships — and preferably won the title — will people be ready to forgive and forget . |
| 19 | ‘ If proper thought had been given to that , I think the conclusion must have been that it would not be beneficial … |
| 20 | In a sense it is all too easy in retrospect to see what it must have been that hurried Elizabeth to that early grave . |
| 21 | But the assumption must have been that before nineteen forty nine there was a lot of that going on |
| 22 | This must have been because it-was his now , he owned it . |
| 23 | The reason why the House of Lords cut down the meaning of the phrase must have been because the House did not believe that Parliament intended to cover the particular situation . |
| 24 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 25 | The drive down was very straightforward until the last few miles ( it must have been because up until then we did n't get lost ) when we had a slight hitch and had to study the map a little more carefully . |
| 26 | He did not find Lawrence and Morris easy to reconcile but since " the House in R v Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Lawrence 's case , there must have been because [ the victim ] , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the [ accused ] taking anything in excess of [ what was agreed ] . |
| 27 | ‘ I though it must have been because they were accusing each other of sleeping with each other 's husbands , ’ said McLean . |
| 28 | I suppose it must have been because a string of boyfriends seemed quite willing to spend their last penny on her before going off to the front . |
| 29 | There was a Bede , Natura Rerum , in which the blues seemed still as intense as they must have been when first painted . |
| 30 | How glorious it must have been when its mosaic , created in 1371 by Venetians using Bohemian glass , was newly installed . |