Example sentences of "[noun sg] must [verb] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 It could be worse — you could live in the US where a would-be president must prove to be an Olympiad to make it to the White House .
2 However , at the centre of the understanding must lie an awareness that schools and colleges have always been in the business of change , created by responding to the needs of individual children and students and that the child at school or the student at college must continue to be the central focus of all educational activity .
3 The rabbi 's wife had insisted it was her role to attend to their epileptic daughter several times each night ; her husband must sleep to be strong for the community .
4 ( 2 ) The date , time and place of the proposed examination must prove to be convenient to our client .
5 As a result of that and later Directives there are now many cases in which the Registrar must cause to be published in the Gazette notice that he has received for registration various types of documents .
6 Of course , the countryside must continue to be a working landscape ; but if most people 's definition of a river as something more than just a drain is valid , then that broad definition must be consciously built into the brief of those who wield this mighty technology of the JCB , the Hymac , and the Swamp-dozer .
7 He was trying to pick her up , of course , but any Wren new to the flotilla must expect to be fair game , she acknowledged , especially in a base so isolated , where women were outnumbered by fifty to one .
8 … until subject matter theories with different epistemological characteristics have been formulated , the focus of our spatial planning must continue to be on supermarkets , roads and airports , and not on the needs and desires of those individual human beings that the facilities allegedly are constructed to serve .
9 Kid must want to be a Disney cartoon villainess when she grows up .
10 In some ways , life must seem to be a very cruel joke to millions of people on this earth .
11 In Margaret Thatcher 's day , most people thought that complaining was a waste of time ; but a ‘ listening ’ Government must expect to be shouted at , loud and long .
12 The Government must look to be fairer to London , with equalisation at least in the grants system — perhaps on the basis of incomes , or by taking the regional banding approach .
13 It is becoming increasingly obvious that in future all training must try to be more self-financing .
14 But your list must seem to be there for a purpose .
15 Putting one 's self in Stalin 's shoes , the present period of indecision must appear to be an opportune moment for him to step into the arena to suggest to Japan that she should make peace with the Kremlin and with Peking .
16 The Subject is the category that marks the place that the individual must fill to be constituted as a subject .
17 The haulier and the other contracting party must want to be bound contractually by their promises .
18 ‘ Everyone who had a possible interest in your brother 's death must expect to be thoroughly investigated . ’
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