Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pers pn] must " in BNC.

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1 I am not , then , when I claim that the existence of God does not need to be proved , denying that we must show it to be reasonable to believe in God .
2 Leila drives , a remarkable performance given that we are so wet and steaming that she must peer through condensation thick enough to carve .
3 How much money went with this is not known but the scale of the ruins — the shell of the reactor is still visible — suggest that it must have been several million dollars even in 1950s prices , perhaps 1 per cent of the gross national product of Argentina , or roughly the equivalent of a whole year 's research budget for a developed country .
4 But if we are seriously interested in promoting the quality of higher education , of improving the effectiveness by which teachers teach and students learn , it is to the teaching process that we must look .
5 Under present conditions , time will be short ; the parents will be advised of the risks and consequences of their actions , but it will be stressed that they must decide .
6 However , it must be stressed that you must still practise the manoeuvre if you are to stand any chance of success in an emergency situation .
7 Justices should be reminded that they must not delay their decision .
8 He sounded weary and she was reminded that he must be very tired .
9 Prison reformers have been slow to adapt to prison realities , and to accept that they must address the wider canvas of the criminal justice process .
10 The foregoing chapters bring the story to that crucial time in the long history of earthly life when emerging man would find himself unwilling to accept that he must for ever be on his guard against the uncontrolled violence that ruled the evolutionary scene .
11 We had all been prisoners long enough to know that you must allow people to be unbalanced if they felt like it .
12 We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it …
13 Thus provisioned , he invited Louise to come to the banqueting hall to celebrate her birthday , though in a very quiet way , he assured her ; he had not forgotten that she must still be suffering on account of her father , who had only recently taken his last dive down the well in the Residency yard in the wake of so many of his former patients .
14 Impossible as it seemed , he had forgotten that he must never , under any circumstances , leave her presence without kissing her cheek as a dutiful son should always do .
15 Louis joked that he must be getting old ‘ when ladies declare war against me ’ , but it proved an ill judged jest .
16 We realise that we must not be arrogant . ’
17 That is what happened , and we now realise that we must take away from such authorities that most unjust tool with which they managed to acquire electoral support that they did not deserve and have unscrupulously used .
18 The fact that Harry Martin had seen fit to go this far not only alarmed her but also made her realise that she must be on to something .
19 ‘ I know that old Sir David only died last year — just before my own father — and I realise that she must be worried sick about poor Owen .
20 He would give me a hearty slap on the back , comment on my expanding girth — ’ Twice the man you used to be , Andreas , eh ? ’ — say that we must meet again ’ for a jar , old man , but just this moment I have to rush , ’ look at his watch , sigh apologetically and shoot off to his next meeting or liquid lunch or whatever .
21 They say they ca n't afford it , we say that we must afford it .
22 Erm but we wo n't , well we 're not going to be descriptive , we 're not going to ask say that you must wear suits or you must whatever .
23 I do n't remember the carpet coming up to hit me , nor finding it hard to breathe , nor at that moment did the judge put on the black cap and say that I must swing by the neck until I was dead .
24 I acknowledge that we must have an eye to the international experience , and our work internationally is to try to ensure that other countries , too , put up their premiums in a way that sensibly recognises the problems of such cover throughout the world .
25 Even advocates of the doctrine acknowledge that it must be exercised within defined limits , and not be allowed to serve as a facade for the furtherance of the intervening State 's own ends .
26 She had been dismayed to find that he must have made enquiries in Helmsley and tracked her down , but she 'd become a much more confident and secure woman since the early days of her marriage .
27 Relieved to find that he must be joking after all , she gave her enchanting little grin .
28 Low-spirited , disappointed that she must forgo the festivities which always marked the twelfth day of Christmas , she wept copiously and bewailed her ill-fortune to such an extent that it was feared she would increase the severity of the illness .
29 But then she found that she must have been without noticing , for she discovered that there was writing everywhere which she could read without even trying .
30 She gave him a level look , understanding that he must be working , as they say , on information received .
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