Example sentences of "be that the [adj] [noun] must " in BNC.
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| 1 | But an additional limitation on the offence at point 7 is that the stationary vehicle must have stopped to accord precedence to pedestrians . |
| 2 | One element common to all forms of the offence is that the forbidden conduct must take place when the policeman is acting ‘ in the execution of his duty , ’ which raises the questions ; what duties are imposed upon a policeman , and how do they come to be imposed for these purposes ? |
| 3 | But the important thing is that the voluntary sector must hijack the trends from the old statism to the new individualism , and steer it into a better way . |
| 4 | The speaker who uses it feels himself or herself to be stating , with an explicitness not found in the merely qualifying adjective , even when it is ascriptive , that the property expressed does hold of the entity identified by the whole noun phrase ; an inevitable concomitant is that the postnominal adjective must be to a certain extent salient in the situation where it is used . |
| 5 | One result of this is that the pied flycatcher must be quick off the mark early in the season in order to get the most nutritious caterpillars . |
| 6 | All he said was that the other boys must have been useless . |