Example sentences of "must [adv] [verb] been [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To judge by the piles of broken stone , chunks of gargoyle , carved oak , black-brown and shot with wormholes , the upper chamber must once have been a workshop but was now a dump for unwanted Cathedral tat .
2 Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here :
3 Peering out , I could see that there must once have been a garden or kail-yard between the cottage and the cliff ; now the tumbledown wall enclosed nothing but a tangle of brambles and wild roses almost hiding a garden hut .
4 Though Antarctica must once have been the home of marsupials and possibly of placental mammals , it is currently the only world continent without a land mammal population .
5 Wide-eyed in reproach , those windows must once have been the glory of Holford .
6 They must once have been the focus of her beauty , and although they were sunken now , he could still see the glint of intelligence behind them .
7 Ensuring the water supply for the towns during the dry Cretan summers must always have been a problem .
8 It must always have been the case that some problems are inherently insoluble , but perhaps it is the stress on all social services that turns the CAB into the last port of call when all others have failed .
9 There must also have been a loop so that locomotives could run round their trains in order to be at the front for the journey back to Bishop 's Castle .
10 The company 's satisfaction with labour relations at Bridgend in South Wales must also have been a factor in the decision to build a £750m engine plant there .
11 Madame had you see known him in his alcoholic days , when indeed such calm must often have been the prelude to him lurching into an argument , or falling heavily from his stool .
12 Yet the very need for such public show-trials , apparently highlighting the fragility of the Soviet Union , its vulnerability to fascist and capitalist subversion , must inevitably have been a cause of concern and growing disquiet .
13 They see it as the ultimate proof that there must originally have been a designer , not a blind watchmaker but a far-sighted supernatural watchmaker .
14 It is very evidently a thorough piece of work ; the judgements seem well justified , and the whole exercise must surely have been a labour of love .
15 The ‘ stuttering notes must surely have been the result of the hammers bouncing .
16 Herbert von Karajan must surely have been the world 's greatest conductor .
17 A second factor must certainly have been the challenge to Alhred from Aethelred , son of Aethelwald Moll , who was crowned in Alhred 's place ‘ with great honour ’ .
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