Example sentences of "must be [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leg must be operated on and straightened , then put into splints or plaster , or the kid 'll remain in that crippled position for the rest of his life . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | and it must be transmitted on |
| 4 | He must be getting on for seventy , and we need a younger head groom . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Ooh , well , let's see now , I s'pose it must be getting on for six weeks , now , ’ Cyril said . |
| 8 | ‘ No , well , ’ looking at her watch , ‘ I must be getting on . |
| 9 | No I bet the lass must be getting on now . |
| 10 | It must be getting on for eleven years now since … ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And you must be getting on with your exciting adventures . |
| 14 | Dave Watson ( Everton ) ? — Doubt He 'd leave , Must be getting on . |
| 15 | I ca n't believe Mel is the player he was two years ago and he must be getting on a bit now , but we have still got Ray Wallace just incase I s'pose . |
| 16 | Her dad must be getting on for seventy she looks as though |
| 17 | Well you must be getting on for a hundred , because I believe you were in the Boar War , were n't you ? |
| 18 | For that reason the French farmers must be stamped on . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Russia , and to a lesser degree Red China , must be looking on with considerable satisfaction at the indecision which is being displayed by the United States as regards her future treatment of Japan . |
| 20 | These correlations must be insisted on . |
| 21 | But where the pre-existing obligation is a contractual duty owed to a third party , some other ground of public policy must be relied on to invalidate the consideration ( if otherwise legal ) … |
| 22 | Even in a light wind , a dust-misted day , windscreen wipers and headlights must be turned on , the clink-clonk of the wipers brushing off dust , not rain . |
| 23 | From the safety angle , the Bosch tacker will not fire if picked up by the trigger — the nose must be pressed on to a surface for firing . |
| 24 | The stock must be grown on as though nothing has happened — the top growth is needed to pull up the sap from the roots , past and into contact with the bud . |
| 25 | An EEIG may be formed by persons , firms or companies ( or indeed other bodies , whether incorporated or not ) in the EC , but not by non-EC bodies ; individuals must be carrying on a trading or service activity ( including the provision of professional services ) and bodies may be public or quasi-public . |
| 26 | Reports and assumptions such as this continued , off and on , throughout the year and reached a climax in December 1951 in a memorandum from the acting Assistant Secretary of State ( Allison ) to Acheson which reported that from various sources and for various reasons , not least the fact that some 200,000 Chinese communist troops in Kwangsi Province were prepared to move on Indo-China as ‘ volunteers ’ , a large-scale attack against French Union and Vietnamese forces in Tonkin must be expected on or about 28 December . |
| 27 | When the system is decelerating the motor must produce a negative torque and therefore each phase must be switched on after the rotor has passed the phase equilibrium position . |
| 28 | Writing of murder thus , in a thoroughly formal way , you can successfully establish two different things : that a murder has taken place and in consequence the story you are telling must be looked on as being of some weight , and that nothing has happened to arouse any revulsion in your readers . |
| 29 | Their main advantage comes when crampons must be put on and taken off several times a day — more of an alpine situation than a Scottish winter one . |
| 30 | The body may not always be accepted , but swift action must be taken on death to inform the authorities . |