Example sentences of "[verb] that it must [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | If we think about Freud and his influence it is not hard to find out what he wrote and said , and it is easy to guess that it must have been important . |
| 4 | At the time I thought little more about it , but later I realized that it must have been caused by some powerful pain-killing drug . |
| 5 | Historians of the conservative tendency , in rejecting the claims of the leading historians of the popular reform movement , seem to be suggesting that it must have been over-reacting . |
| 6 | He would not talk about it , and you knew not to ask more , but you realised that it must have been the time in his life when he most resembled himself . |
| 7 | His rounds took him to most parts of the building and Rain was eagerly accepting that it must have been Stan on the second floor making her jumpy when he mentioned that since the murder he did not go into MacQuillan 's room or those next to it because the police were usually there . |
| 8 | ‘ Though we knew by the place where he had fallen that it must have been at the very summit just as the path runs down the cliff to Kinghorn Manor . ’ |
| 9 | Wheatstone 's work in telegraphy seemed to show that electricity travelled about as fast as light , and Faraday believed that it must go just as fast ; he also believed that gravity must be analogous to other attractive forces , and take time for its propagation , though there was no evidence for this . |
| 10 | But none of this is the essence of Mrs Thatcher 's problem which is rather that , on the essential questions of economic management , the government gives the impression either of having lost its momentum or of having decided that it must settle for something well short of what Mrs Thatcher seemed to promise in the way of reducing the size of the public sector and also the burden of taxation . |
| 11 | According to some sources Egypt 's acceptance of the Baker plan indicated that the PLO leadership had accepted that it must play an " invisible " role in the initial stages of the peace process . |
| 12 | It seemed that it must take a long time for such peace to be broken . |
| 13 | I seemed to recall that in the past when we 'd met we 'd got on reasonably well , so I assumed that it must have been something that Jennifer had told you that had turned you against me , or , failing that , that you were just embarrassed at having to work with your sister 's ex-fiancé . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Accept that it must end . ’ |
| 15 | The Court could look at the facts before the Minister and if those were insufficient in law to support his determination then the Court would deem that it must have been arbitrary . |
| 16 | The jury has been told that it must decide whether or not the two men were racing their cars . |
| 17 | Kerry Evans said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that he asked Edward Browning about the blood , and was told that it must have come from an animal he had hit while driving to Scotland . |
| 18 | Experts are all agreed that it must emerge somewhere — the National Rivers Authority is monitoring likely places but so far it 's a question which remains unanswered . |
| 19 | Experts are all agreed that it must emerge somewhere — the National Rivers Authority is monitoring likely places but so far it 's a question which remains unanswered . |
| 20 | Experts are all agreed that it must emerge somewhere — the National Rivers Authority is monitoring likely places but so far it 's a question which remains unanswered . |
| 21 | Experts are all agreed that it must emerge somewhere — the National Rivers Authority is monitoring likely places but so far it 's a question which remains unanswered . |
| 22 | London will be the poorer for its passing ; yet London requires that it must go . |
| 23 | Well we know that it must have happened overnight , er we were open until six o'clock on Thursday evening . |
| 24 | And the statement encourages those who have received it to ask in addition for the free copy of the latest statutory accounts by requiring that it must contain a conspicuous statement of their rights under section 239 . |
| 25 | This was particularly sad , considering that it must have been Walpole whom she idolized and wanted to imitate , for it was he who built Strawberry Hill . |
| 26 | ‘ I was saying that it must have seemed a terrible invasion of your privacy to find a pair of binoculars locked on your deck earlier . ’ |
| 27 | When the people realized it was not alive , they decided that it must belong to the Man-Mountain , and the King ordered them to bring it to me . |
| 28 | Molly remembered the child in pantaloons and decided that it must have been bought by Sandra and not Buck Kettering . |
| 29 | Yet the Soviet Union is still trying to define Hungary 's security interests by insisting that it must stay neutral , or something close to that , for the treaty 's 20-year life . |
| 30 | On her way to the Rådhuspladsen she 'd passed its entrance several times , knowing that it must have a high priority in her search for Suzie . |