Example sentences of "[noun] there must have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that hall there must have been hundreds — ’ |
| 2 | Winter freezing closed the Trent and Mersey Canal for five weeks in 1814 – 15 , and Freeman has calculated that on the canals of the Lancashire plain there must have been twenty-day stoppages in thirty of the winters between 1771 and 1831 and thirty-day stoppages in ten of those . |
| 3 | Unless some merchants had withdrawn to the country , while continuing to manage their businesses there must have been significant investment in urban industry and commerce by the agricultural sector to maintain the balance between town and country in West Sussex . |
| 4 | From medieval times there must have been some kind of dwelling on the slight rise in the ground upon which the house stood . |
| 5 | Of course , they liked large buyers , but the manager there must have been impressed by her father years ago , probably because although his orders were n't all that large they were regular . |
| 6 | Clive Lloyd is one of the best-loved cricketers ever to walk on to a field , but after the relentless domination of his four-man pace attack there must have been many people who permitted themselves a smile at the news . |
| 7 | Below the exemption line there must have been many small masters . |
| 8 | and we 've , I mean we 've said this on reflection afterwards , as much as we do n't like cutting up plates of sandwiches there must have been some that took home half a dozen |