Example sentences of "must [adv] have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guy Sterne must presumably have been a last-ditch contact . |
| 2 | Since a great proportion of them were engaged in growing corn and other basic needs of life , there must already have been a considerable proportion of the European population who needed to be fed by the labour of others . |
| 3 | Even in the failing light , Theda could see that the drive was ill kept , and the surrounding gardens overgrown , and what must once have been a graceful line of trees bordering the rutted gravel lane now struck a flutter of apprehension in her breast . |
| 4 | The Water of Leith must once have been a clear and sparkling river . |
| 5 | It must always have been a real hope on Wilfrid 's part that a king of Northumbria from another branch of the royal family or from a noble line claiming royal descent would be more favourably disposed towards him than the descendants of Oswiu . |
| 6 | It seems likely , therefore , that transport must always have been a limiting factor on trade . |
| 7 | There must also have been a great number of ferns , lycopods and horsetails existing as understorey plants but also isolated in dense swards , There was not the wide-scale domination of conifers hinted by Benton which somewhat invokes a picture of foodless dark plantation-style forests . |
| 8 | The watering hole must also have been the only one in the area for all sides produced finds , and finds of a reasonable age . |
| 9 | There must therefore have been a certain piquancy for him in now extending hospitality to the fallen monarch . |