Example sentences of "must have been [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Since Childebert I is said to have acknowledged Gundovald 's claim to Merovingian blood , the issue must have been raised before 558 , perhaps long before .
2 Birth dates are not given on marriage certificates , only ages , and his mother 's was there as twenty-five , which meant she must have been born in 1926 and have been twenty-seven when he was born .
3 The Gospel must have been written after 65–70 AD if Mark is one of his sources .
4 Divorce of this kind was first introduced into English law by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 , and from then until 1969 it was based upon the doctrine that some matrimonial offence ( such as adultery or desertion ) must have been committed by one spouse before the other could obtain relief .
5 That creature must have been travelling at 60 miles per hour .
6 The phrase ‘ married to a hearing wife ’ is written in a different hand and must have been entered after 1839 which was the year Lowe married a Francis Charlotte Jellicoe in London .
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