Example sentences of "the [noun pl] must have been [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | All the cooking would be done by slaves , and the kitchens must have been difficult to keep clean and mice and cockroaches a familiar sight . |
2 | Alida stepped from the surgery door into sudden sunlight , and beneath the contempt and the anger was a seed of relief , of new hope , of freedom , for the instrument did not lie , the sounds must have been clear , she had no heart disease , no weakness , no need to accept the fact of death . |
3 | Again we are faced with having to read between the lines , but the allusions must have been clear to most of Bukharin 's contemporaries . |
4 | Even the chickens must have been ashamed of those parts of their bodies when they were alive . |
5 | In most of the windows the curtains were partly drawn so that the rooms must have been dark , but the people probably lived in the back . |
6 | So , the Pioneers must have been wrong : and to pronounce that judgment upon heroic founding fathers must have been difficult . |
7 | Further along the village another house used to be the ‘ cookhouse ’ and game room for them — the meals must have been cold by the time they arrived at the table of Londesborough Lodge ! |
8 | They all say there were no passionate affairs but occasionally the tempters must have been successful . |
9 | An anonymous telephone call to the police must have been one option ; but that seemed unlikely because in that case the police would already be here . |
10 | I categorically deny the two other statements attributed to me in quotation marks : particularly that which implies that I think the doses must have been higher than those reported by the MoD . |
11 | Mrs. Twitchett , who provided the refreshments must have been unhappy , for within one month the Club changed its policy of taking all the profit to letting her have it ‘ if any ’ and agreeing to supply her with additional help at weekends and other special occasions . |
12 | When the Clause banning the promotion of homosexuality by local authorities was introduced into the Local Government Bill in December 1987 , the Tories must have been confident of no Labour resistance ; and with the honourable exception of Bernie Grant , now a Haringey MP , they were right . |