Example sentences of "[noun] must have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Carrick 's admittedly biassed complaint , the anonymous correspondent must have been an ambitious junior officer , for ‘ there is no body of Men so full of plot and envy as the Excise ’ . |
| 2 | Indeed , the fact that serious crime was often punished by confiscation of all the malefactor 's possessions must have been a sore temptation , and doubtless tended to prejudice kings towards verdicts of guilty . |
| 3 | The first fourteen hours must have been the worst of the journey as I was not able to sleep , whatever position I sat in . |
| 4 | Memphis , Tennessee must have been a lively place for the city ‘ s policemen in the early 1970s . |
| 5 | On top of which , I think Binbrook must have been the coldest RAF Station in England . |
| 6 | The general effect must have been a serious breaking-up of the great landed estates of Britain and their redistribution to absentee landlords , apart from those who preferred to move to Britain and take up residence . |
| 7 | Both dorsals must have been a good twelve inches clear of the water . |
| 8 | The murder must have been a severe shock to her and she would no doubt be deeply concerned over its effect on her husband ; she should have gone to see her yesterday , or at least telephoned . |
| 9 | William Symons must have been a wild one for in July of the same year he and Elizabeth Cole also of Halling , were both bound over for twenty shillings to appear at the next gaol delivery . |
| 10 | At that stage , Sunderland were good value for the lead and Mr Crosby must have been a contented man . |
| 11 | I suppose my eyes must have been a little red . |
| 12 | Gough Square was no backwater — Dr. Samuel Johnson had lived there a few years before — and a Gough Square lady must have been a good catch for an impecunious cheesemonger 's son . |
| 13 | Frantic attempts to have my bags recalled came to nought and by half-past-one the Taiwan Timberland lookalikes hit deep slush at Torino after a salivating glimpse of Monte Bianco and blanketed environs a few feet to the left wingtip. 10 December must have been a great day for skiing . |
| 14 | The post mortem now states quite categorically that he was not killed by any sort of missile ( the open window must have been a red herring ) . |
| 15 | This visit to Glastonbury must have been an impressive occasion , but there was probably more to it than simply pomp and piety . |
| 16 | They obviously do n't mean anything to you , so it looks increasingly as if this whole business must have been a dreadful mistake . |
| 17 | Hawkshead must have been a fascinating crowded place on market days . |
| 18 | Before the sea-walls were built the place must have been a true sea-marsh , largely flooded whenever there was a particularly high tide , with islands of sandy soil bound by the tussocky marram grass defeating the sea here and there . |
| 19 | ‘ Finding your friend 's body must have been a terrible shock for you , ’ he said . |
| 20 | In peacetime the town must have been a sleepy and slow-moving place , but at the start of 1945 it fairly hummed with activity , being surrounded in all directions by RAF and American Air Force stations . |
| 21 | The other story I recall to mind about this time is that Cranwell in those days must have been the coldest spot south of the Arctic Circle and the ration of coal to fire the single stove in a billet of 22 erks took little account of the temporary hutment , Some genius had laid down that the ration of coal would he 1lb of coal every other day was sufficient to ward off armies of brass monkeys that descended on Cranwell in winter . |
| 22 | Aesop must have been a keen observer of natural animal rhythms . |
| 23 | Although destroyed in 1789 , the French crosses bore figures of kings , just as the Eleanor crosses contained a figure of the queen , and the Montjoies of St Louis must have been a formative influence on Edward 's decision to act as he did . |
| 24 | Prior to this time it had to travel in cask and the resultant ‘ sparkling ’ wine must have been a sorry product , hardly an advertisement for its quality and reputation . |
| 25 | It was certainly the case that in the first centuries the example of Jesus must have been a tremendous model for living and for dying . |
| 26 | As far as most nineteenth-century thinkers were concerned , it was obvious that the driving force of human evolution must have been a steady expansion of the brain , which merely continued the progressive thread that ran through the whole evolution of life . |
| 27 | Just such a sentry must have been the first to die , the night the Welsh came . |
| 28 | Thus , it is also common ground that the complainant must have been an existing borrower at the time of the grant or refusal in question . |
| 29 | You know he was that tramp must have been an honest man because father said there was quite a little of sovereigns in that , and so I suppose it had been given to the parish and had seen that the man was properly buried , and then they discovered that he was an Aberdonian . |
| 30 | Inglewood must have been a perfect foil for the grand civic buildings of Liverpool , with its open timber balcony on the south side overlooking terraced and formal gardens laid out in the ‘ Old English ’ style . |