Example sentences of "[prep] what must " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the young woman laughed merrily , her voice strengthening after what must have been years of silence , and the whole strange cellar rang with that laughter , and the glass fragments tinkled like broken bells . |
| 2 | I suspect you were disguised as a personable young man , a merry companion for the Gascons , after what must have been a long and gruelling journey . |
| 3 | The grass sloped gently away from the college towards what must be the bank of the stream he had mentioned earlier . |
| 4 | It is perfectly true that there is nothing conclusively in the poem to make us identify the first stair with Dante 's Inferno , the second with his Purgatorio , the third with Paradiso ; as there is not ( a more piercing uncertainty ) anything to determine for us whether ‘ the broadbacked figure drest in blue and green ’ , with his ‘ music of the flute ’ , is an image of what must be renounced in order to achieve Paradise , or else an image of how terrestrial life can most nearly attain the paradisal . |
| 5 | Scrutinising this familiar object revealed some untidy details in the first movement : the performers have not quite solved the problem of what must be one of the cruellest openings for an orchestra ever devised . |
| 6 | I am one of what must be an increasing number who find the portentous moralisings of A. Solzhenitsyn a bore and an irritation . |
| 7 | Frogs love it , and in springtime birds swarm all over it , making off with beaksful of what must be nature 's most luxurious nest lining material ! |
| 8 | This was the site of what must have been one of the longest running water disputes in molinological history . |
| 9 | In an analysis of verbal learning , Gibson ( 1940 ) argued that much of what must be learned in a paired associate task involves establishing discrimination among the items . |
| 10 | In the entrance , at the ticket office , there is enough of value and variety to give a taste of what must be one of the richest cathedral treasuries in central Europe . |
| 11 | Charles Kingsley , writing of the final destruction of the Fens , was perhaps the first to regret the loss of what must have been one of the finest natural systems in Europe . |
| 12 | As Webster goes on to point out , when study of the cuneiform records revealed that the Babylonian shabbatum ( full-moon day ) also fell on the fourteenth ( or fifteenth ) day of the month , we were presented with another survival of what must have been the primary meaning of the Hebrew term shabbath . |
| 13 | of what must happen |
| 14 | I suspect that some of the drug barons who shell out money in support of what must be a pretty costly operation regard the academically-minded staff of the OHE as a bunch of eggheads , not to say ‘ wets ’ , who ought to be earning their keep by polishing up the industry 's somewhat tarnished image , and by encouraging sales , instead of spending their time and the companies ' profits on airy-fairy projects which are n't going to rustle up a pennyworth of business . |
| 15 | We now know that some of what must have been his ‘ hopes and wishes ’ and ‘ dreams of fame ’ have been fulfilled ; his worth as a novelist and his work in Canada have been acknowledged by succeeding generations . |
| 16 | As a result of investigating unsolved problems in biology , including how a seed or egg can contain the essence which grows into the new individual member of the same species , he postulated ( something which has long been familiar to those with a spiritual or esoteric background ) the existence of what must , by implication , be a non-physical mould or pattern , what he calls a ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , which survives the death of the physical form , and which shapes the individual tree , animal and flower of each species , just as the individual field around a magnet can create a pattern in a scatter of iron filings . |
| 17 | He even came across a restricted locality where lived a colony of what must have been a new sub-species of the extremely rare , Small Mountain Ringlet butterfly , for they were at a much reduced altitude to their normal haunts , and altogether smaller than the regular species . |
| 18 | One of the rusting iron pipes fastened to the shed wall and apparently coming from what remained of the old boilerhouse inside , had a plate affixed to it , near the stump of what must have been a water stop valve . |
| 19 | Then , on an impulse , I retraced my steps following the run of the old water washout pipes until I found myself in the remains of what must have been the old boilerhouse . |
| 20 | Anyhow , this is saxman Courtney mixing his jazz with his other tonic , reggae , adding a splash of what must , unfortunately , be called world music . |
| 21 | Just below the hump I could make out — I have good eyes — the dark outline of what must be the ruined broch , and beside that , in its shelter , was a speck of bright , alien orange . |
| 22 | He should be at home in his father 's mansion , not listening to the ranting of some deranged maniac on the eve of what must surely be the one of the largest battles in the Empire 's history . |
| 23 | The first volume of what must eventually be one of the great modern biographies , John Richardson 's book was published last year and has now appeared in paperback . |
| 24 | In this one site , conditions allowed a uniquely large proportion to be preserved , but even this is only a hint of what must have existed . |
| 25 | Still , I do not wish in what follows to forego the support of what must seem to be the good sense of our natural empiricism , which is independent of philosophy . |
| 26 | In the strident campaign of December 1918 the Unionists were in their element , sure of what must be done as no other party was sure . |
| 27 | But to these targets needs to be added an analysis of what must be achieved in order to obtain them , in terms of both the behaviour and attitude of consumers : and of more functional matters such as ( for example ) greatly improved distribution — to put it in what is , from the agency 's point of view , the most defensive way possible , it is too easy to blame the advertising when the sales force has failed to achieve the necessary levels of retail distribution to support the required sales . |
| 28 | Such a process may be comparable to the experience one has when switching on the radio in the middle of a discussion programme and trying to understand the discussion through a partial reconstruction of what must have been said already , who the participants must be , and so on . |
| 29 | HIS great courage and imperturbable COOLNESS in the face of what must at times have seemed to him to be insuperable odds WAS , I must confess — although I do not really like him — quite UNBELIEVABLE . |
| 30 | It gave me a much clearer idea of what must be done to raise interest in sustainability in Wales . |