Example sentences of "must [vb infin] [conj] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I must stress that the involvement of armed forces , the police and the voluntary services will cease once the trades unions agree , as they did two weeks ago , to provide normal accident and emergency service ’ .
2 If the law is to be effective , the criminals must know that the chance of their being caught is high , as is the chance of their being convicted ; and that they are certain to receive a sentence that matches the severity of their crime .
3 Since you seem to know whereof you speak I will only say that you must know that the burden of restraint by means of the … mechanism … employed will , of necessity , fall upon the man .
4 ‘ You must know that the companionship of you and Charlotte in a strange land will be beyond price to me . ’
5 Managers must recognise that the style of management which was commonplace years ago is no longer acceptable .
6 The Minister must recognise that the concept of England as a unitary nation may make much sense in the south of England , but there is a much greater feeling of distance among people in the north .
7 No definition is completely satisfactory , but any attempt at a definition must recognise that the pitch of the voice plays the most important part .
8 I do not think that British Rail should be given carte blanche to abolish rights of way on every railway track , but where train speeds and frequencies are as great as on the line to which I have referred , we must recognise that the combination of pedestrians and such high-speed trains is deadly .
9 ( b ) If the motor has attained its maximum stepping rate deceleration must commence when the number of steps required to decelerate is equal to the number of steps from the target .
10 The impact of clearance by men using stone axes can be appreciated from this , although we must consider that the use of fire may have been even more important .
11 If there is to be any such thing as the Truth of History ( rather than several truths , even if they are organized into a system ) , our investigation must show that the kind of dialectical intelligibility which we have described … applies to the process of human history as a whole
12 They must show that the Crown by its servants was exercising , or threatening to exercise , powers under the statute in such a way as to constitute compulsion in law .
13 I , I think people must do because the number of them that are sold .
14 We must assume that the density of information packing in spoken language is appropriate for the listener to process comfortably .
15 We must assume that the problem for the discourse analyst is , in this case , identical to the problem for the hearer .
16 Congress , the vote in the House of Commons was lost unfortunately , but our sponsored MPs must ensure that the opposition in the House of Lords fights this ridiculous legislation as vigorously as possible , and we must support our brothers and sisters in B R with their fight .
17 Large quantities of frozen food are nowadays delivered regularly to stores and the Service must ensure that the temperature of the stock at the time of delivery is correct before it goes into the cold store .
18 Such sanctions could be implemented either by insisting that before receiving funds form the EC for a particular project the member country must ensure that the project in question complies with environmental legislation , or if a member country does not comply with environmental legislation across the board , the EC could withhold funding .
19 If it might reasonably have been foreseen that the pregnant woman might be injured by his carelessness , it must follow that the possibility of injury on birth to the child she was carrying must equally be taken to have been reasonably foreseeable . …
20 Stewart Ritchie , pensions manager at Scottish Equitable , added : ‘ Where the value of the dividends is reduced and the other assumptions in the calculation are unchanged it must follow that the value of the fund 's assets are reduced . ’
21 Firstly , the owner must believe that the release of the information would be advantageous to his rivals or injurious to him .
22 The major medical specialisms must realize that the majority of their patients ( consumers ) are increasingly going to be elderly , with the resultant problems of frailty and multiple pathology .
23 To recognise the full force of this injunction , we must remember that the slave in those days had no rights .
24 However , one must remember that the number of plants reputed to relieve one condition or another is enormous , and that most of them have not stood up to critical investigation .
25 ( If we compare this figure with Figure 10.1 , we must remember that the picture before 1988 was an average of more or less varied individual curricula , whereas the picture after 1988 is , at least in its general outlines , the same for every child . )
26 To understand why the trajectory is altered so greatly , one must understand that the aerodynamics of the golf ball 's flight are based on the dimples or depressions .
27 Certainly we must hope that the government in its final response will take the arguments put forward by Alvey somewhat further ; after all it has had the best part of six months to consider them .
28 However , any rational analysis of urban administration must conclude that the lack of any elected conurbation-wide bodies — particularly for London , the West Midlands and Greater Manchester — is shortsighted .
29 In practice , ethnographers tend rather to play down the question of whether their particular group is typical of others , but the reader must recognize that the choice of group is a kind of sampling , and the question of representativeness must arise .
30 Any enquiry into the causes of the failures of the Christian religion , must disclose that the existence of the two great divisions and of the numerous minor ones , is not the main issue , and not the cause of the failure of the religion to establish itself as wholly acceptable to all mankind .
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