Example sentences of "[modal v] be wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , I think we should be wrong to take these attitudes too seriously . |
| 2 | The point has been much disputed , and we should be wrong to lay exclusive emphasis on Otto 's vision of the past . |
| 3 | The observer is sure that his memory must be wrong . |
| 4 | But unless the relative profitability of different enterprises on 1 April 1964 , or whatever date you like to choose , is sacrosanct and uniquely right , it must be wrong to freeze that pattern in perpetuity . |
| 5 | Give me that thing , it must be wrong . |
| 6 | ‘ You must be wrong , Gerald , ’ cried a Labour voice . |
| 7 | The soft laugh reassured Charles to some degree , but something must be wrong about writing to Charity . |
| 8 | For the empirical evidence discussed in the first section of this chapter led to the conclusion that habituation and latent inhibition are subserved by different mechanisms ; it follows that a theory based on the assumption of a common mechanism must be wrong in one way or another ; the fact that Wagner 's theory is inadequate as an account of habituation provides no reason to reject its explanation for latent inhibition . |
| 9 | ‘ You think that such a calculating approach to life must be wrong . |
| 10 | If we want , as we do , an intelligent , open , ambitious population from whom managers and workers alike will be drawn , to say nothing of creative and imaginative people in all fields , then the segregation of children into different schools must be wrong . |
| 11 | Tony replied that : ‘ When decent people become irrational , something must be wrong if they are driven to such desperate acts . ’ |
| 12 | That must be wrong . |
| 13 | George : ‘ And they 'd never call women that , so their argument about a man must be wrong . |
| 14 | Take the child to a doctor because something serious must be wrong . |
| 15 | For whilst this was true it was obvious , at least to the conservative mind , that ‘ something must be wrong with them ’ . |
| 16 | In favour of rigorism , there is the apparent reasonableness of saying that if one fails to do all one can to promote happiness ( and , in particular , to reduce suffering ) one has not done the best one could do , and that must be wrong . |
| 17 | But he does come rather near making the rather empty point that it must be wrong to identify good with anything different from itself . |
| 18 | Something must be wrong when , although they have to travel further they are coming in cheaper . |
| 19 | These thoughts occur because people imagine something very serious must be wrong with their body to cause the symptoms that they are experiencing . |
| 20 | Just seems that it , it to me must be wrong , that it did n't identify them because a particular picture anyway , the reason why I find difficulty in making |
| 21 | Retributivism has no such problem , since it follows automatically from the retributive principle that it must be wrong to punish non-offenders . |
| 22 | I thought I must be wrong , because kindness did n't go with what he was doing . |
| 23 | ‘ No , I must be wrong , ’ said Betty . |
| 24 | Institutional care is one part of a complex range of provision ; while it is right to reduce reliance upon it because of its toxic effects ( which are determined by the quality of care provided and not size alone : Huxley , 1991b ) it must be wrong to remove it altogether or reduce its scale or critical mass so that it ceases to be able to perform those functions which other services can not . |
| 25 | My right hon. Friend must be wrong when he says that we are spending 4.3 per cent . |
| 26 | Any amendment to the law that provides an aggravated penalty for someone who could not have foreseen that for which he is sentenced must be wrong . |
| 27 | Something must be wrong with the line . |
| 28 | I knew it must be wrong , because afterwards he made me promise not to tell anyone about it , not even Mamma . |
| 29 | Freudians , like Marxists , can not step outside their own forms of thought to admit that they might be wrong ( unless , like Crews , they undergo a deconversion ) . |
| 30 | It gave effect to the policy of the law that the parties to a judicial decision should not afterwards be allowed to re-litigate the same question , even though the decision might be wrong . |