Example sentences of "must [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A person 's social development is thus crucially linked to the physical fact of ageing : no one can be fixed in a low position , but must eventually succeed to the highest status , simply by staying alive . |
| 2 | The theory of the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ predicts that the old and weak must eventually succumb to the young and strong , and that this is necessary for the future vitality of the species . |
| 3 | By the textuality of history , I mean to suggest , firstly , that we can have no access to a full and authentic past , a lived material existence , unmediated by the surviving textual traces of the society in question — traces whose survival we can not assume to be merely contingent but must rather presume to be at least partially consequent upon complex and subtle social processes of preservation and effacement ; and secondly , that those textual traces are themselves subject to subsequent textual mediations when they are construed as the ‘ documents ’ upon which historians ground their own texts , called histories . |
| 4 | The camera work is superb and I must especially commend to you all the final shots of the film which show a train heading up the Talerddig incline taken from a nearby hillside . |
| 5 | The eigenvectors must obviously correspond to special states . |
| 6 | The Astropath must suddenly appear to be possessed — with lethal consequences . |
| 7 | Within the Christian context women must necessarily refer to , and exercise a dependence upon , the world of men , of a kind which men would not conceive of having in relation to the world of women . |
| 8 | In effect , Ayer has put them in a ghetto and they are happy to remain there , content to be making statements of nonsense in the assurance that what to the believer are the words of God must necessarily appear to the unbeliever mere gobbledygook . |
| 9 | Whereas Aristotle did not enquire into the mental process by which we perceive time , because he believed that our minds must necessarily conform to the time of the physical universe , St Augustine took the mind 's activity as the basis of temporal measurement . |
| 10 | However much the excise supervisor may have been appreciated by the councillors of St. Andrews , he was regarded with less enthusiasm at the Treasury , and the member of parliament was told bluntly that if any office about St. Andrews fell vacant , which was usually left to the recommendation of the Burgh Member , he should have the nomination , and as Scott advised the provost , ‘ they hoped that from reasons which must naturally occur to myself , I would be satisfied with the propriety of their answer ’ . |
| 11 | Others must selflessly administer to his needs . |
| 12 | You must not admit to , negotiate on or refuse any claim unless you have permission from us . |
| 13 | You must not admit to , negotiate on or refuse any claim unless you have permission from us . |
| 14 | You must not admit to , negotiate on or refuse any claim unless you have permission from us . |
| 15 | You must not admit to , negotiate on or refuse any claim unless you have permission from us . |
| 16 | The longing for home embodies the feeling of loss not of a place , but of time , and , if I understand your teaching aright , we must not cling to it , but turn outward to the real world . |
| 17 | The newly-elected councillor must not expect to be elected to the more important committees unless he has special qualifications for any committee . |
| 18 | Regulations made under this section must not delegate to one or more members of the licensing board , or to officials or other persons , except as authorised by the Act , any responsibility which must be exercised by the licensing board at any of their meetings . |
| 19 | You must not speak to my daughter again — ever ! |
| 20 | The most important thing — of course — was being seen with the right people , and the Mirza Nama opens with a salutary warning : ‘ He [ the mirza ] must not speak to every unworthy person , and should regard men of his own class as the only [ fit ] companions [ for him ] . ’ |
| 21 | However , we must not leap to conclusions too hastily . |
| 22 | For strict conventionalism gives only the negative advice that judges must not pretend to be deciding such cases on legal grounds . |
| 23 | Your body must not sway to the left during the downswing . |
| 24 | We must not add to the execution of this plan — physical obstacles to moral difficulties , for it will be enough to fight through prejudice and ignorance . |
| 25 | Such feelings can , of course , be very positive but must not develop to the extent that they produce an unhealthy rivalry and competitiveness . |
| 26 | Things that she must not keep to herself . |
| 27 | In order to prevent the display from scrolling , you must not write to the last column of the last row . |
| 28 | ( 9 ) The number of shares offered for ( when aggregated with the existing holdings of shares and rights over shares of the buyer and persons acting by agreement or understanding with him within the meaning of the SARs ) must not amount to 30 per cent or more of the voting rights of the company . |
| 29 | He had to swear to obey the rules while diligently instructing the children and any others who may come to him ‘ in grammar and other human doctrine ’ , but must not read to them ‘ any corrupt or reprobate books ’ . |
| 30 | The sheriff or bailiff must not account to the execution creditor for fourteen days after sale if the judgment exceeds the prescribed sum ( currently £500 ) because under s 346(3) the sheriff or bailiff is obliged to hand over the proceeds to the official receiver or trustee if a bankruptcy petition is presented within fourteen days of the sale of the goods and a bankruptcy order is subsequently made on that petition . |