Example sentences of "must be [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | expresses the involuntariness with which firms , no less than workers , must be acting during periods of unemployment … |
| 2 | Secondly , he must be acting as agent in a way of business . |
| 3 | It must be demoralising for workers to be working alongside people who are being paid twice for doing the same job . |
| 4 | I smiled tactfully , thinking he must be referring to memories of the war , and left a little silence . |
| 5 | The most painful part of any obstetrician 's job must be dealing with stillbirths and damaged babies . |
| 6 | The words of the songs , even given the fact that much is lost in translation , are disappointing ; such is the passion and power of the voices that you feel they must be singing about life and death matters . |
| 7 | When I arrived at the airport to check in , I was surprised by the amount of security , I decided they must be looking for drug traffickers . |
| 8 | ‘ She must be living in cloud cuckoo land . |
| 9 | One partner , who suffered repeated phone calls from Channel 7 until he cut them off , said : ‘ People who signed up must be lacking in street wisdom . ’ |
| 10 | I kept going to the toilet , positive that I must be bleeding to death . |
| 11 | Some moralists say that if we regard immediacy or physical nearness as relevant , we must be failing in rationality or imagination ; we are irrational if we do not recognize that those starving elsewhere have as big a claim on us as those starving here . |
| 12 | The Palace file on Fergie must be bursting with detail on her toings and froings . ’ |
| 13 | And , for sure , this train must be crawling with Orb fans , all desperate to chill out , to surf that glorious tube of astral spume , to get loaded and have a good time . |
| 14 | you know we we must be talking about July when we sh when we present , when we produce erm one of these pieces of paper . |
| 15 | He must be talking to Dr Greene by now . |
| 16 | Well he must be arriving on Monday then . |
| 17 | And look at all the business you must be losing in London while you 're out here running around after Malta 's nobility ! ’ |
| 18 | After all , this man was a tycoon as well as a doctor ; he must be rolling in money . |
| 19 | He said Dawn was swimming on a Tuesday he says , but because you had n't rang up , he said , I thought oh , she must be coming to work . |
| 20 | She says : ‘ Many must be going through hell and are frightened to ask for help , believing that nobody will understand their turmoil . |
| 21 | ‘ I really must be going to Matey , Dr Neil . |
| 22 | They must , they must be going for rock bottom prices at the moment there ! |
| 23 | This means that it must be growing in area and that , consequently , the total area of all the other plates must be declining if the ‘ constant area ’ assumption of plate tectonics is to be satisfied . |
| 24 | At Weatherfield , Jim McDonald must be suffering from Lady Chatterley-itis the bad-tempered Irishman called his wife a whore in front of the twins , extremely over-the-top , Jim . |
| 25 | But the illness lingered for over a year , and in the end the doctor decided that she must be suffering from depression . |
| 26 | ‘ TB , ’ he muttered , ‘ I must be dying of love . ’ |
| 27 | Fen smiled — a fleeting , secretive smile that made Robbie think he must be reminiscing about incidents on that walk — probably the overnight bits . |