Example sentences of "[ex0] must have been a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | There must 've been a little bit of snow |
2 | 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 . ’ |
3 | There must have been a good reason for the same method was also in use at other coach works . |
4 | There must have been a better breeze there . |
5 | There must have been a great fire . |
6 | • With Valentine 's day so near to the closing date , we were expecting hundreds of soppy cards , bouquets of flowers , bottles of champagne and heart-shaped chocolates to come flooding into the office — there must have been a postal strike . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | There must have been a tacit appreciation among many potential benefactors at the end of the thirteenth century that there were already too many religious houses : whereas over seven hundred new houses had been founded in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , just over sixty followed in the next century and most of those were friaries . |
9 | There must have been a hundred of them — three flocks together — scrabbling over the stones , stretching out their necks and bleating . |
10 | And there must have been a hundred copies of a pamphlet on the campaign against street trading in animals . |
11 | We reckon there must have been a hundred at the meal . |
12 | The place was heaving when we arrived ; there must have been a thousand people squashed into the confines of the Blue Angel club , all waiting to do three minutes for Les Cox and his production team , sitting invisibly beyond the strong footlights on the small stage . |
13 | Instead , I simply assume that there must have been a valid reason for the cessation of emotional hostilities between us and have no desire to resume them . |
14 | After all , if I can get a book published as a " successful " student there must have been a dramatic change in my outlook . |
15 | There were thus several attempts to avoid the conclusion that there must have been a big bang singularity and hence a beginning of time . |
16 | Another attempt to avoid the conclusion that there must have been a big bang , and therefore a beginning of time , was made by two Russian scientists , Evgenii Lifshitz and Isaac Khalatnikov , in 1963 . |
17 | The final result was a joint paper by Penrose and myself in 1970 , which at last proved that there must have been a big bang singularity provided only that general relativity is correct and the universe contains as much matter as we observe . |
18 | There must have been a big business even when the deep litter started cos I can remember the farm next door to us working a deep litter . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | There must have been a dozen rotundas , each displaying blow-ups of contemporary newspaper clippings , photographs , posters , etc . |
21 | We lay side by side on the floor all over the house — there must have been a dozen or more of us , including nice old Ma Mi who was delighted to see us . |
22 | There must have been a dozen people seated round the huge polished table , but she barely noticed any one of them as she opened the door and was confronted by the sight of Luke Calder . |
23 | There must have been a clear indication on the outside that there was a fox on the inside ! |
24 | Once , there must have been a single core-vessel which had lost its way or had lost the use of its warp-vanes so that it could no longer jump back into truespace . |
25 | Some time in the past there must have been an almighty explosion . |
26 | Then again , he talked with her because he longed to satisfy to meet her needs , as a human being she 'd aspiration , she 'd hope , she 'd desires and as she looked back on her life , some of them may have been fulfilled , some of her plans may have been realized , but there must have been an awful emptiness , and awful hollowness about so much . |
27 | There must have been an interesting contrast in scale between palace and church . |