Example sentences of "must have [been] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Webster goes on to point out , when study of the cuneiform records revealed that the Babylonian shabbatum ( full-moon day ) also fell on the fourteenth ( or fifteenth ) day of the month , we were presented with another survival of what must have been the primary meaning of the Hebrew term shabbath . |
| 2 | ‘ It must have been the tremendous strain he had been under worrying about Laura and trying to keep his job up . |
| 3 | He was flim-flamming , of course , but that must have been the general burden of the letters . |
| 4 | Amazingly this must have been the final straw for it , because its top hinge broke and it swivelled on the bottom one , narrowly missing Miss Louise before it crashed to the floor . |
| 5 | ‘ My poor wife 's attempt to scare her into flight must have been the final straw . |
| 6 | Here and there they pick up and make use of the old common balks in the former open fields , which must have been the usual way of proceeding from one village to another in open-field country , but for the most part they are drawn straight across the old furlongs and strips regardless of all considerations but that of directness . |
| 7 | I suppose there must have been the usual quota of cold , wet and windy days but I ca n't remember them . |
| 8 | That must have been the only man ever to get no points three times in a row . |
| 9 | This must have been the only time John ever had his work discussed in detail by a choreographer of Balanchine 's gifts and experience , and although Buckle described him as ‘ looking somewhat quelled ’ his nature was such as to profit from it . |
| 10 | ‘ She must have been the only woman Paheri ever liked . |
| 11 | I do n't know what kind of women you 've associated with , Luke Calder , but , believe me , it must have been the wrong kind ! ’ |
| 12 | Then , on an impulse , I retraced my steps following the run of the old water washout pipes until I found myself in the remains of what must have been the old boilerhouse . |
| 13 | Must have been the American Space Shuttle . |
| 14 | Even more off-putting , though , must have been the permanent doubt about what kind of narrative such a history would be : a celebration or an obituary ? |
| 15 | She was dressed in what must have been the formal evening style of 1915 : an indigo silk evening wrap over a slim ivory-coloured dress of some shot material that once more narrowed and ended just above her ankles . |
| 16 | But at least one ingredient in the extraordinary reversal of expectation must have been the cumulative effect of seeing all those smug Labour front-bench faces oozing such complacency about their forthcoming victory in the weeks before the poll — Roy Hattersley , Robin Cook , Jack Cunningham , Bryan Gould . |
| 17 | Such decisions must have been the daily stuff of lordship , but they are now usually only visible in the formal context of legal disputes . |
| 18 | Such decisions must have been the daily stuff of lordship , but they are now usually only visible in the formal context of legal disputes . |