Example sentences of "we must be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Because most of us have ignored non-European cultures in the past does not now mean that European and European/American culture have become less valid or that we must be tempted to rewrite history twisting facts to suit our present crisis of confidence .
2 We had discussed this business of how people 's appearance literally alters in the eyes of their lovers , and suddenly I blushed , for it seemed to me he must be remembering this too , and that we must be looking for the same thing , as one might take down an old book in a moment of hungry nostalgia and start to re-read , hoping it may provide the same remembered enchantment as before .
3 We must be looking at a general systems failure .
4 Another commonly-accepted indication of intelligence is the way animals deal with the unpredictable contingencies of their world through learning ; and it is here that our intuition tells us that we must be dealing with something very like intellect .
5 In chains he tells the Sanhedrin itself about the one name in heaven by which we must be saved .
6 As we move on with God and seek his will for us as His church , we must be seen to be addressing the issues which face us today .
7 Davidoff and Hall have recently underlined not only the strong conception of ministerial leadership possessed by John Angell James at Carr 's Lane in Birmingham — ‘ We occupy a very public station ; like the angel standing in the sun we must be seen ’ — but demonstrated his ability to lead his chapel in alignment with Anglican reformers to work for antislavery , temperance and projects of moral benevolence within the community .
8 There are , basically , two philosophies about competitors ' media selection : to compete in the same media , because ‘ we must be seen to compete ’ or because it is the only really possible medium or ( even ) because ‘ they must know something ’ ; or to try to avoid the competition and to ‘ dominate ’ a reasonable alternative medium .
9 We must be seen to keep the spirit of the law , as well as the letter , or soon there will be no order in the land . ’
10 Salvation in found in no one else for is there there is no other name under heaven given to me by which we must be seen .
11 We must be born with an intuition of mortality .
12 There is no totally ‘ green ’ energy source and if we want to help the environment we must be sparing with what we use and campaign for renewable energy sources — like wind , wave and solar power — to be invested in and taken more seriously .
13 Alright , and because that , protectionism is required to do that , we must be taking resources away from more efficient industries and putting them into , into agriculture .
14 " I 'd guess we must be getting pretty close , Chuck .
15 ‘ Well , we must be getting downstairs or those poor men will think they 're never going to get that glass of sherry , ’ said Ianthe more lightly .
16 So we must be getting round to Sue 's question .
17 In Japan , we must be getting to a time when equities are worth buying , so , on a five-year basis , I would choose the Schroder Japan Smaller Companies which has a good reputation , or possibly the Schroder Tokyo fund .
18 We need people who are not only economically literate , but politically and socially literate , well informed about and sensitive to crucial social and moral issues ; we must be developing a society whose members are aware and tolerant of others and manifest concern for their welfare .
19 We 're in for a very difficult time and we must be prepared for it .
20 We must be prepared for an ironic result — that the reduction of US military spending will lead to an increase in Japan 's defence spending .
21 A revolution in information technology is taking place which will have effects on society , certainly as far-reaching as the impact of the industrial revolution , and we must be prepared for the changes .
22 For example , he took comfort from the deflationary economic measures of July 1966 , which he opposed , as it gave him the chance ‘ to reassert collective Cabinet authority because I see how disastrous it is to allow Cabinet government to decline into mere Prime Ministerial government … if I achieved anything it was by asserting the right of Cabinet to take part in the making of economic strategy so that Harold conceded we must be given that right ’ .
23 ( Of course , no utterances are safe from the post-Freudian trick of claiming that they mean the opposite of what they say , but in the interpretation of literary texts we must be given additional , fairly unequivocal evidence of a discrepancy between speech and meaning , as we are given for Iago , but not for Othello . )
24 But I think we must be given freedom to choose the time and not commit ourselves to any timetable .
25 We must be given confidence in the Government who rule us without our consent .
26 We must be given confidence in the Army and the police .
27 We must be represented by a team of quality and experience .
28 Look , ’ he continued , ‘ we must be gone soon .
29 Before he comes we must be gone .
30 All the gossip it is we must be hearing , or we 'll just up and away , saints guide us .
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