Example sentences of "there must [verb] been a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm coming up a hill near some kind of huge church or cathedral — there must 've been a service or a concert going on because people are pouring out — one of them 's singing a high trill and her boyfriend 's cross : ‘ Please , Miranda ! |
| 2 | We share a common ancestor with chimpanzees , so at some point in either our ancestry or chimps ' there must have been a change in chromosome number . |
| 3 | ‘ Quick , out with that ladder , ’ said Ryan , ‘ there must have been a balls-up . ’ |
| 4 | There must have been a misunderstanding about that … |
| 5 | In each case there must have been a scientist employed . |
| 6 | We used these techniques to show that there must have been a state of infinite density in the past , if the general theory of relativity is correct . |
| 7 | There must have been a push . ’ |
| 8 | There must have been a blueprint in F.B.I.H.Q. for Legal Attachés ' premises , because the set-up in London , the mechanism of the outer security door , was identical to the one in Rome . |
| 9 | I started right in by saying there must have been a bit of a misunderstanding . |
| 10 | ‘ His hearing aid and glasses were smashed so there must have been a bit of a tussle , ’ he said . |
| 11 | There must have been a window . ’ |
| 12 | And everybody was I 'm not joking , there must have been a couple of hundred people that either they 're shopping or watching , you know if they could . |
| 13 | Very little research has been carried out on the functions of domestic pottery ; there must have been a variety of functions which , glibly , can be placed under the headings of cooking and storage , but behind such distinctions there is little clarity . |
| 14 | There must have been a draught because I wrapped my coat around my knees . |
| 15 | There must have been a proportion of shy , bashful ones around , but they were not in evidence amongst the mob which harassed us day by day as we tried to make our way around the town on our own affairs . |
| 16 | There must have been a cosiness to the street once , but now there was such a sense of decay that Jack could almost smell it . |
| 17 | GUIL : Our names shouted in a certain dawn … a message … a summons … there must have been a moment , at the beginning , where we could have said — no . |
| 18 | There must have been a moment when Juliet had shown some spark of individuality which he failed to foster . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There must have been a time when each of these practices ceased to be tolerable and reasonable behaviour . |
| 23 | For example , his eyes were necessary for the finding of food and the locating of enemies , to name but two of many purely necessary functions , but there must have been a time when he first began to enjoy the visual beauty all around him . |
| 24 | There must have been a time when we did n't quarrel , when we were just content to be together . |
| 25 | However , general relativity claims to be only a partial theory , so what the singularity theorems really show is that there must have been a time in the very early universe when the universe was so small , that one could no longer ignore the small-scale effects of the other great partial theory of the twentieth century , quantum mechanics . |
| 26 | I suppose there must have been a time when it was n't like this ? ’ |
| 27 | If these are not the product of a Piltdown-type hoax , then either there must have been a source of jade somewhere in Europe or else the axes must have been brought an unimaginable distance from the Far East , a journey comparable in its way to that of the monoliths of Stonehenge . |
| 28 | She had , after all , a wedding ring on her finger , so there must have been a Mr Salt . |
| 29 | There must have been a shipwreck we do n't know about . |
| 30 | There must have been a point of no return , but Holly could not remember passing it . |