Example sentences of "as it must [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group agrees that the discussions with the Unit were a key element in the formation of the collaboration , but the original idea came , as it must do , from the researchers . |
| 2 | She wished the journey could last forever instead of ending , as it must do , when she stepped back on to the plane to London on Monday morning . |
| 3 | The sound was unreal , ethereal ; the music of heaven as it must echo in the airshafts of hell . |
| 4 | I saw the pond as it must have looked then , the converging tracks , and the grassy ascent to the foundations of the church . |
| 5 | The legendary wealth of the Incas sounded almost as unlikely , as marvellous to me as it must have done to Pizarro and his cohorts , many of whom were peasants drawn from an arid future in Estremadura . |
| 6 | These are both recommendable performances : the Monte-Carlo orchestra , in particular , is on top form , and plays this familiar music for all its worth , so that it comes up as fresh as it must have sounded in St. Petersburg a century ago . |
| 7 | The kitchen is particularly fascinating with its full array of cooking equipment looking much as it must have done in the 18th Century . |
| 8 | Boscastle is a truly delightful place , which looks very much the same as it must have done 600 years ago with its narrow winding streets and pretty 14th-century cottages . |
| 9 | He suddenly wished his grandfather was alive ; how he would have enjoyed showing him all this , listening to the old man and reliving it as it must have been . |
| 10 | It stands solidly still , much as it must have done in the eighteen hundreds , though minus : |
| 11 | Perversely , as it must have seemed to penal reformers , the opportunities offered by borstal training , with its reformative aims , were all too often spurned by young offenders , many of whom preferred a prison sentence to borstal training on the grounds that it was usually shorter and for a more certain period . |
| 12 | It 's hard to tell it as it must have been , it was so unexpected . |
| 13 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |
| 14 | The bay to his left was labelled ‘ Fiction A-H ’ , and to his right was the cash desk looking much the same as it must have done on the day the shop was first opened . |
| 15 | As he thought about it , creating the scene as it must have been , his father shouted at her that she was useless and silly . |
| 16 | If the European Union is to become a form of national state , it follows that it must have its own police force , just as it must have its own army . |
| 17 | In a dream , she saw him skid to a halt , taking in the scene at once as it must have appeared — his brother bending over his fiancée — and , thought Sarella in dismay , taking in my submissive expression as I stupidly allow this dark monster to maul me . |
| 18 | Instead , it perhaps sees its bulging coffers as sufficient reason to risk the wrath of the law , as it must have done at Fangdale Beck . |
| 19 | This can take a lot of ti me as it must proceed at the person 's own pace and not fit within the time span that the helper finds convenient or thinks sufficient . |
| 20 | A good art lesson must stretch the mind and imagination of the children all the time , just as it must stretch your minds and imagination . |
| 21 | On the contrary , as I have insisted , one indelibly American thing about Pound from the day when he first reached London was his , as it must seem to us , excessive faith in know-how , in a communicable ‘ bag of tricks ’ . |
| 22 | Amazing as it must seem to non-Americans , skirmishing for the Republican presidential nomination for the 1996 election has already broken out . |
| 23 | A further element of Lele thought illustrates another common principle of cosmological logic or , if you prefer , of religious symbolism : tribal systems of thought , and perhaps all closed or relatively closed systems of belief , tend to exhibit a strong and , as it must seem to some , edifying concern for tidiness . |
| 24 | Here we have an extraordinary influence wielded by two similarly structured and ( as it must seem to many ) identical educational institutions , neither of which offers anything close to a Continental conservatory . |