Example sentences of "must have [be] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said . |
| 2 | But a further complicating factor is that Watling Street , in its latest phases , points directly to the medieval East Gate , strongly suggesting that here also lay the later Roman gate , most probably on a different site to that belonging to the early defences ; if this is so , then the ditch must have been bridged at the gate . |
| 3 | Must have been looking for a house . |
| 4 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 5 | The third time she saw it Allen was with her but he must have been looking in the wrong place , for he did n't see it although she did n't understand how that could be . |
| 6 | Must have been caused by the explosion that brought down the plane or by the impact of striking the water . ’ |
| 7 | The product package must exist ( and must have been created as a product using option 1.1.1 — Create Package/Product ) . |
| 8 | Before being able to close off an SPR , it must have been accepted by a LIFESPAN user ( to prevent it being passed on indefinitely if no one is willing to take responsibility for the work ) . |
| 9 | Before being able to close off an SPR , it must have been accepted by a LIFESPAN user ( to prevent it being passed on indefinitely if no one is willing to take responsibility for the work ) . |
| 10 | To be eligible to be purchased by the Bank of England the bills must have an underlying short-term trade finance role , as evidenced by a clause on the face of the bill , and must have been accepted by an ‘ eligible ’ bank . |
| 11 | But the alliance with Athens must have been renewed before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War when Thessalians fought on the Athenian side again ( Thuc. ii.22 ) . |
| 12 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 13 | Had the German attack been mounted on 12 February , as planned , the French , caught as it were in transit — for though now aware of the impending peril they were only beginning to bring up reinforcements — must have been overcome in a total and horrible manner . |
| 14 | ‘ The person who put this together must have been living in a box for the last 10 years . ’ |
| 15 | She must have been warned of the dangers . |
| 16 | There are a few conditions ; you must have been sailing within the area or bands briefed by the flotilla skipper , timing starts when the lead boat acknowledges the failure , and you must return to UK with a report signed by the flotilla skipper detailing the circumstances . |
| 17 | It must have been sheltered by a submarine ridge , for there were no currents to disturb the fine sediments on the floor or to bring in oxygenated water from nearer the surface . |
| 18 | From these statements it is possible to deduce that Hizir Bey must have been appointed to the Sultan medrese during the first sultanate of Mehmed II ( 848–50/1444–6 ) and that Molla Arab can not therefore have begun his study with him , much less become anyone 's before the summer of 848/1444 . |
| 19 | A groan went up that Charlie reckoned must have been heard in the middle of Edinburgh . |
| 20 | The seduction scene afterwards must have been done with an eye for the main chance , before the opportunity disappeared … |
| 21 | The act must have been done at the promisors ’ request : the parties must have understood that the act was to be remunerated either by a payment or the conferment of some other benefit : and payment , or the conferment of a benefit , must have been legally enforceable had it been promised in advance . |
| 22 | I believe it must have been done outside the stable . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ How she was able to effect all this ’ , her nephew writes in his Memoir , ‘ is surprising , for she had no separate study to repair to , and most of the work must have been done in the general sitting-room , subject to all kinds of casual interruptions . |
| 24 | Where an answer is required to be filed of which notice must have been given to the respondent ( Ord 9 , r 18(5) ) , the answer shall be filed within 14 days inclusive of the day of service , unless another period is prescribed , and shall be accompanied by sufficient copies for all other parties , including other respondents separately represented . |
| 25 | And he went to them , and he found that they had n't a clue what they 'd written , and he concluded , quite soberly , that they must have been visited by a Muse . |
| 26 | Many a promising liaison must have been nipped in the bud by Algernon being a duffer at flower arranging or breaking the significant corn stalk with a clumsy tweak ; and many a passion choked to premature death because Augusta absentmindedly pinched the petals off her posy of moss rosebuds and myrtle . |
| 27 | A wooden mansion was quite an inviting residence : it consisted of the saloon of a large ship that must have been wrecked in the neighbourhood . |
| 28 | This brain drain' must have been viewed by the authorities as acute , otherwise there would not have been so much coverage of the issue in the media . |
| 29 | Of the pin placing at the 466-yard ninth , where the 144-strong field were a collective 114 over par , Woosnam said : ‘ Whoever did it must have been born with a spanner in his head . ’ |
| 30 | He must have been born in the middle ‘ thirties , when hunger was already rampant . |