Example sentences of "what must [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps your very words are what must represent us to posterity . |
| 2 | But what must astonish us , I think , more than the details of violence is that the only charges brought as a result of this death were against three men who were charged with assault and punished with a 20 shillings ' fine , with the additional requirement that they should pay the doctor 's bill on the dead man . |
| 3 | For the actor , the performance itself is what must transform repetition into success . |
| 4 | Conservatives thus hold what must appear , to those who do not hold to a conservative position , to be a distorted conception of what he was about . |
| 5 | She wanted to press her hand on his , say , ‘ My dear , Mr Frere , I beg you to forgive what must appear an intolerable intrusion , but I have reason to believe your present happiness must be short-lived unless … ’ |
| 6 | What must strike the modern reader is the very small amounts of out-relief involved in such cases . |
| 7 | Mad dogs , mad cyclists , mad kids hurling sticks at conker trees and forgetting that what must go up must come down , or , more likely , not caring either way . |
| 8 | Journalists who call to the farm to interview me do see us in that setting and describe it as they will but those really are only momentary glimpses into what must remain , fundamentally , my private life . |
| 9 | Historians have been attracted by the wealth of available material : Darwin 's private notebooks have survived , along with much of his correspondence , and this material is now being published so that scholars everywhere can have access to what must stand as a unique record of creative thought . |
| 10 | In what must rank as one of the most ingenious ruses in the history of Hampden Babylon , Patsy Gallacher struck up a relationship with the hotel chambermaid and borrowed her clothes for the night . |
| 11 | In what must rank as one of the most petty letters ever to emerge from the SFA , an organisation that has never been known for its broad-mindedness , the secretary demanded that the ball be returned . |
| 12 | The next morning , in what must rank as one of the most undignified clashes between authority and undisciplined players , Cooke and Baxter were forced to do press-ups until they were physically sick in front of their team-mates . |
| 13 | In what must rank as the most offal moment in the history of Hampden Babylon , the paper reported the sonorous tones of a senior Strathclyde police spokesman : ‘ We can confirm that a 38 year old man is the subject of a report to the procurator fiscal . |
| 14 | In what must rank as one of the most homoerotic quotes in the history of football , Jim Steel , a trainer with the Scotland squad which played in the Mexico World Cup said of Souness : ‘ His body is absolutely beautiful . |
| 15 | What must underpin these decisions ? |
| 16 | What must count is their present resources : their home , their pension , their health , their family , their friends , their psychic energy . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh miss , what must th'think of me . |
| 18 | What must have distinguished him as being beyond normal was his unconventionally high state of consciousness . |
| 19 | A hook solved the initial problem , then a long , unprotected traverse ( great fun seconding ! ) led to more blank wall and what must have been some truly desperate leading . |
| 20 | I 'm sure none of us noticed what must have been expressions of pure panic on the faces of our two teachers and the several parents who had volunteered to keep their own children and their classmates from certain death by drowning in the pool . |
| 21 | ‘ Your unwillingness indicates insensitivity to what must have been perceived as deeply held and deeply felt concerns and convictions of the Methodist people . ’ |
| 22 | Nameless Lives : Sir Robert Peel ( 1788-1850 ) , who became Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1812 after Spencer Perceval was assassinated and Lord Liverpool became Prime Minister for what must have felt for ever . |
| 23 | In such moments he was not himself , for age had quelled the turbulent spirit , and tamed what must have been a fierce temper indeed … . |
| 24 | She had decided what must have happened to him , why he was taking so long to return , and why she could never recall his face . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , that 's what must have happened . |
| 26 | The image omitted almost constant service to the Sanusis ; it also omitted what must have been at least intermittent contact with the Turks . |
| 27 | Mr Moran resisted what must have been considerable temptation to rebuke Grobbelaar in a manner similar to Mr Souness 's outburst after the recent defeat at Sheffield United . |
| 28 | The brick built and slated roof mill was built around 1840–41 , in what must have formed part of the garden , and was obviously steam-powered from that date . |
| 29 | This was the site of what must have been one of the longest running water disputes in molinological history . |
| 30 | Ludens , proceeding sedately , worked out what must have happened . |