Example sentences of "a [noun sg] must [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Godfrey J. correctly concluded that the operation of the taxpayer which generated the taxable profits was one carried on in Hong Kong he went too far in saying that a taxpayer must establish the existence of a profit-generating operation outside Hong Kong if he is to escape a charge to tax under section 14 . |
| 2 | The British replied that such a board must operate the canal , otherwise Egypt would be able to use the waterway as " an instrument of national policy " . |
| 3 | A writer must face the terrifying complexity of contemporary life if her fictions or poems are to be relevant to the world today . |
| 4 | The analogy is clear : just as a referee is necessary to interpret the rules , so a Chairman must guide a meeting . |
| 5 | In order to have a claim for payment a creditor must prove the debt owed to him or her by the company . |
| 6 | A parliament must connect the government with the governed . |
| 7 | There is no single criterion by which a scientist must judge the merit or promise of a paradigm , and further , proponents of competing programmes will subscribe to different sets of standards and will even view the world in different ways and describe it in a different language . |
| 8 | A builder making a payment to a sub-contractor who does not have a certificate must make a deduction from the payment for tax . |
| 9 | A guardian must have no conflict of interest . |
| 10 | ‘ A play must have a beginning , a climax and an end ’ ( Aristotle ) |
| 11 | Such a presence must take the form of an onshore administrative unit responsible for the management of the fishing vessel concerned . |
| 12 | Consequently , if a volcanic island is to be formed the rate of growth of a volcano must exceed the rate of ocean floor subsidence . |
| 13 | Under New York law , anyone who contracts for the story of a person accused or convicted of a crime must deposit the proceeds of the contract with a Crime Victims Compensation Board . |
| 14 | To be an effective leader , to get bureaucrats and legislators to do what he wants them to do a president must retain the support of the public and , in the modern age , that is hardly possible without consistent command of television . |
| 15 | To implement his programme , a president must gain the cooperation or acquiesence of other members of the political élite , but such people are unlikely to be responsive to presidential directives for the relationship between them and the president is not one of simple dependency . |
| 16 | To govern rather than merely preside , to bring about meaningful policy change as distinct from tinkering with the status quo , a president must establish a productive relationship with congress . |
| 17 | ‘ The principle that a defendant must take the plaintiff as he finds him involves that if a wrongdoer ought reasonably to foresee that as a result of his wrongful act the victim might require medical treatment he is , subject to the principle of novus actus interveniens , liable for the consequences of the treatment applied although he could not reasonably foresee those consequences or that they could be serious . ’ |
| 18 | By section 11 of the Public Order Act 1986 , anyone organising a march must give the police six days notice otherwise he may commit an offence . |
| 19 | A trainer must visit the class at the beginning of the training and then again at the end so that she can assess the candidates progress . |
| 20 | Since Fourier analysis shows ( see chapter 11 ) that all signals comprise certain combinations of pure sinusoidal signals , to perform as an attenuator , a circuit must reduce the amplitudes of all sinusoidal signals by the same factor irrespective of frequency and without changing their phases . |
| 21 | If a child must face a prolonged period of hospitalisation , say , he could relatively easily be prepared in advance with information about what will take place , and allowed to experience graded separations in happy circumstances , such as overnight stays with friends . |
| 22 | Even though the cooperative production approach is dissimilar from orthodox business methods , a cooperative must have the same entrepreneurial freedom as an orthodox business enterprise . |
| 23 | The fact that you can turn the engine off and use it as a glider must extend the appeal of this unusual creature which hardly fits the general public 's notion of a microlight . |
| 24 | A nationality must have a common language and territory . |
| 25 | A wilderness must follow the possibility of things turning out quite differently from expectations , of disaster , and maybe even degradation , as well as creative surprise . |
| 26 | Indeed , a teacher must respect the need adolescents have to be protected from being made vulnerable by the drama . |
| 27 | At present English procedure only permits representative actions , whereby members of a group must have the same interest in the same proceedings ; the action can not seek damages , but only some other form of relief . |
| 28 | Those who are not prepared to run their practices as a business must confront the fact that their practices have no long term future . |
| 29 | In this sense a business must develop a Community law reflex in deciding in its 1992 strategy how it can best employ the EC competition rules . |
| 30 | So over-blessed a nature must bring a man either to a throne or a grave before ever he lived to be old . |