Example sentences of "[noun pl] must be [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the legal rights of all parties must be respected the welfare of the child must be the court 's paramount consideration . |
| 2 | To the failure of politics and tactics must be added the most serious shortcoming of all : the absence of a defensible strategy for lifting the British economy out of its present crisis . |
| 3 | Against the SAS successes must be measured the cost . |
| 4 | For dividend announcements to be treated unambiguously as good signals , managers must be given the correct incentive to transmit a true signal even if the information is bad . |
| 5 | Now , ahead of d'Alembord , the gun-fire rumbled like dull thunder to remind him that the two thousand six hundred pounds must be earned the hard way . |
| 6 | ‘ When the ref makes the scrum come up and back again , like in the Moore case , the packs must be given the time and position to reset properly . |
| 7 | We patients must be told the unpalatable facts so that we can exert pressure on those who really are responsible for prolonging our pain . |
| 8 | To these dilemmas must be added the differing perceptions of a project by potential beneficiaries such as farmers and small-scale businessmen . |
| 9 | Cash and carry 's : tend to offer a ‘ no-frills ’ service on a price basis although they are not necessarily the cheapest and to their prices must be added the cost of collection . |
| 10 | Against these points must be set the fatalism with which Law watched his country drift into civil war ; the patriotic party became begetters of rebellion , the party of order suborned crime and mutiny , and the leader of the opposition in parliament approved and supported the destruction of both the practice and the authority of parliament . |
| 11 | Against the sometimes successful upward negotiation of wages by some groups of urban artisans must be set the long persistence of " customary " rates in other trades . |
| 12 | To these issues must be added the allied questions of selection and appraisal . |
| 13 | Children must be given the opportunity to talk through their ideas before they are expected to write them down . |
| 14 | British policemen and women must be given the chance to defend themselves . |
| 15 | Against these objections must be set the advantages of the rating system : payment is difficult to avoid , income is predictable , and collection is cheap and easy . |