Example sentences of "must [vb infin] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must seek to discover through the experimental work of small teams which approaches have the best chances of success , before committing the battalions . |
| 2 | Anderson 's history must work according to a rational principle , the dialectic , and be moving towards an end which will reveal and enact its meaning . |
| 3 | Anyone working seriously on the social and economic history of the sixteenth , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries must become acquainted with the major findings of this demographic research . |
| 4 | Cave was older than the rest of the party , and the only one with knowledge of Iran ; he also suffered from a bad back , and must have landed with a fierce combination of jet-lag , suspicion and pain . |
| 5 | To the humans it must have sounded like a high-pitched chattering . |
| 6 | In spite of falling into bed feeling wide awake and convinced she would be awake for hours , she must have fallen into a deep sleep that had lasted for all of ten minutes ! |
| 7 | But yesterday 's rain-hit showdown must have felt like a recurring nightmare for Faldo , too . |
| 8 | Danish interest in conquering England , if indulged by Harald at all , must have lapsed during the fatal quarrel with his son Swegen . |
| 9 | He thought this one must have escaped from the National Theatre down the road . |
| 10 | Events in many countries over the last few years must have re-awakened in every English soul , an awareness of what it means to be English . |
| 11 | One must have served as a recumbent tombstone , since it has a slot at one end to hold a vertical cross . |
| 12 | I must have touched on a sensitive spot . ’ |
| 13 | Originally this state must have led to a great deal of contradictory and ambivalent behaviour , with the bird being tugged in opposite directions by its opposing moods . |
| 14 | Added to this the partner of the black hole must have swollen to the giant stage in order that material can be transferred rapidly enough to give an accretion disc that produces detectable numbers of X-rays . |
| 15 | Traherne must have conformed to the religious requirements of the Commonwealth . |
| 16 | She must have run through the opposite end of the colonnade and round the back of the house . |
| 17 | Martin Browne himself believed that Eliot was too ready to rely upon outworn social and theatrical conventions , but suggested that they " reflect an unconscious reversion to the drama that Eliot must have seen as a young theatregoer before 1914 " . |
| 18 | ‘ Then he must have gone into a steep dive . |
| 19 | Everything was checked and locked up and it must have gone during the late night or early morning , Thursday night/Friday morning . |
| 20 | She must have gone through a terrible period in her life ; looking back , she genuinely believed it to be worse than it really was . |
| 21 | ‘ did send a message by telephone which was grossly offensive , or ’ Means the message must have gone by a public telecommunication service and must be very offensive . |
| 22 | This group must have separated from the ancestral flatworms at a very early stage indeed , long before the split between the molluscs and the segmented worms . |
| 23 | ‘ I feel I must have trained in the Dark Ages . |
| 24 | It was a hot day and Andy must have started with a distinct dehydration disadvantage . |
| 25 | I must have looked like the mad ape that wandered the streets of our village with its gypsy owner . |
| 26 | From the Communist point of view the witch-hunts and loyalty tests of the United States must have looked like the little puffs of smoke and flame of a stage dragon which fooled nobody . |
| 27 | Something very funny must have happened to the hon. Member for Dagenham on his way to the Chamber . |
| 28 | One of the main things that must have happened in the early evolution of living organisms was an increase in the numbers of genes participating in such cooperatives . |
| 29 | This must have happened in the late third century . |
| 30 | There is no need to assume the writer of Genesis must have drawn on the Babylonian stories for his information . |