Example sentences of "it must [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be that you also perceive it . |
| 2 | Yes , it must be that she was actually an awful person . |
| 3 | As this may well have occurred millenniums before that dawning power could produce an act of a nature that would leave the kind of evidence that archaeologists seek , then it must be that the true dawn is virtually undatable . |
| 4 | On the rural front , it must be that same tunnel-vision imperialism which is preventing the very obvious adoption of a positive farm-waste strategy . |
| 5 | If there is any iron law of bureaucracy it must be that such organizations will not willingly do anything that may be against the organization 's perceived long-term interests and that , on occasions , this will lead the organization to ignore its nominal masters . |
| 6 | ‘ I forgot the hour , ’ he added , and when Fabia , glancing at her watch , saw that , incredibly , it was getting on for three , she realised that when Ven was working it must be that he did n't give thought to food . |
| 7 | It must be since we were first married . ’ |
| 8 | You ca n't , it must be since Paul did and the man turned up and to Yvonne , I 'm not going |
| 9 | it must be when she 's coming . |
| 10 | Everything possible must be done , he wrote , and yet it must be as though nothing had been done . |
| 11 | I think it must be as I said : either she 'd done something or her man had done something . |
| 12 | For some calls they wear plain clothes , but mostly work is done in uniform , as it must be if neighbourhood policing is to work . |
| 13 | That developing process is itself totalized through Sartre 's assertion that each totalization is the totalization of all struggles , as it must be if the singular is to incarnate the universal . |
| 14 | This is matched ( as it must be if the government does not use the reserves to support the pound ) by a current account surplus as exports rise and imports fall . |
| 15 | Well i by definition it must be if it excludes all A classes for example . |
| 16 | I said Well it must be if it 's to twenty three . |
| 17 | If the B Ed was a degree which enjoyed the status of all other first degrees , then it must be and be seen to be academically respectable . |
| 18 | Well it must be cos I , I put salt on it , I thought myself you got the salt and have some more salt |
| 19 | ‘ My father , puzzled for an instant as to the meaning of this accident , since Mrs Goodyer was the gentlest and most inoffensive of our Church members , decided that it must be because she had made an idol of her husband … ‘ |
| 20 | If you failed it must be because of complex interactions with your environment . |
| 21 | If this is supposed impossible for the Westerner ( assuming he is not too old ! ) it must be because , and only because , he does not have access to information allowed the Chinese as children . |
| 22 | It must be because it gets me out of the tent in the middle of the night to stand and contemplate the untroubled majesty of The Plough . |
| 23 | The persuasiveness of Berkeley 's argument about heat and pain depends on two things : ( i ) our readiness to distinguish between feeling heat and feeling hot , and ( ii ) our having the idea that if two things are called by the same name it must be because we suppose them to be like one another . |
| 24 | Well — the argument goes — it must be because we do not think that behind the parrot 's utterance is the thought ‘ I 'm going to the bank ’ . |
| 25 | It must be because I need him . |
| 26 | It must be because I 'm not reacting to the socket like the receptionist would . |
| 27 | If she did not see fit to prevent their actions , it must be because they served her purposes . |
| 28 | He was concentrating furiously now , for , he thought , if I know of these places , then surely it must be because people have been able to talk of them . |
| 29 | It must be because people have come out . |
| 30 | On the one hand there are those who argue , in a fairly simplistic way , that if military expenditure is high , it must be because the people want it to be so . |