Example sentences of "there must have " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there must have been something in it to hold my attention for so long . |
| 2 | There must have been a push . ’ |
| 3 | There must have been several dozen possible suggestions for an essay from that paper — political , industrial , military ( the Korean war was still ongoing ) , in sport or arts , etc. etc . |
| 4 | There must have been a leak . |
| 5 | There must have been many an occasion when agents , in particular , must have wished to see the back of him . |
| 6 | There must have been text books around at one time but I can not even identify any titles let alone suppliers . |
| 7 | It was not a contest to excite the audience and there must have been some anxiety in Mason 's corner as it approached a critical stage . |
| 8 | There must have been something in the Florida air in addition to vitamin C. One of the passes from Vinny Testaverde , the Tampa Bay quarterback , went through the hands of his intended receiver right in front of the goal-line , and into the hands of a team-mate , Mark Carrier , for a touchdown . |
| 9 | The entire kitchen ( there must have been a brigade of 50 where one would expect more like 12 ) , belongs to some turn-of-the-century grand Parisian establishment , but strangely there was only one washer-upper . |
| 10 | But there must have been other reactive effects which were more subtly marked than this and were concealed from the fieldworker . |
| 11 | There must have been dozens of dead animals lying around , most of them killed by shrapnel or having wandered into a minefield . |
| 12 | There must have been a draught because I wrapped my coat around my knees . |
| 13 | I started right in by saying there must have been a bit of a misunderstanding . |
| 14 | There must have been a time before Fenna , just as there must have been a time before words , but Maggie can not not conceive of either . |
| 15 | There must have been a time before Fenna , just as there must have been a time before words , but Maggie can not not conceive of either . |
| 16 | There must have been twenty men on the back of the lorry in masks and carnival costumes . |
| 17 | But company executives accept that there must have been a leak as they put together a financing package to back their bid for Dixons . |
| 18 | There must have been someone else around . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Umpire Alley eventually warned Holding , but there must have been many Lancastrians who were sad to see Lloyd , on his home ground , do nothing about it . |
| 21 | There must have been two or three thousand on the river banks and the water . |
| 22 | From medieval times there must have been some kind of dwelling on the slight rise in the ground upon which the house stood . |
| 23 | There must have been a veritable orchard flourishing in her wake , which could account for the sudden urge to build an orangery among the nobbery . |
| 24 | In each case there must have been a scientist employed . |
| 25 | Similarly Fawn Hall , asked by North to alter memoranda to conceal his work for the contras , remembered feeling uneasy : ‘ but I believe in Colonel North , and I know that there must have been a good reason why he was asking me to do this , and I — I did as I was told . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ There must have been just a small problem of logistics . |
| 27 | There must have been a dozen rotundas , each displaying blow-ups of contemporary newspaper clippings , photographs , posters , etc . |
| 28 | Surely there must have been many others equally clinching . |
| 29 | Whatever they may have told the pollsters , there must have been countless voters who , as they finally confronted their choice , saw in their mind 's eye the image of a beaming Neil and Glenys standing at the door of Number 10 , and thought , dammit — prompting them to switch back to that decent , straightforward , reliable Mr Major . |
| 30 | Reference to pre-Chelsea days are rare , but Miller described in the Dictionary how he grew Monthly Roses ( the Autumn Damask ) in his original Southwark Nursery ; under glass against a warm wall , ‘ using dung placed against its backside , as practised by raising early fruits ’ , to produce roses in February , for which there must have been a ready market . |