Example sentences of "[pron] must [vb infin] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Eadmer there were over sixty in about 1080 , and a high proportion of them must have been Englishmen of the old foundation . |
| 2 | Among them must have been many new men pushing up from below . |
| 3 | At the same time it must be remembered that the occupations of a quarter of the inhabitants were not stated ; some of them must have been farmers , and it is quite conceivable that many of the omissions were the result of uncertainty as to whether or not to class the persons in question as agricultural or industrial . |
| 4 | Some of them must have been terrifying . |
| 5 | Some of them must have been on there . |
| 6 | When the mare basins were excavated the fragmentary material beneath them must have been compressed to a higher density than before . |
| 7 | At all events the rent from them must have been very considerable . |
| 8 | And there was the beds that was there there was beds were still in that bothy and there was there were three of them must have been in the bed you see , and then there was a a board that they slipped in half up the bed and there was a a mattress or whatever on that and another three on that . |
| 9 | One of them must have been , loads of make-up ? |
| 10 | Since then , the mill ( which is not open to the public ) has been visited by a large number of interested bodies , all of whom must have been greatly impressed with this tale of hard work , expense and perseverence . |
| 11 | Feeding me must have been painful , and perhaps therefore an unpleasant emotional experience . |
| 12 | If pig butchers kept piggy banks , his must have been empty once in a while during this period … |
| 13 | This Melanie of his must have been a right madam , thought Leonora when Penry went off to get himself a glass of whisky . |
| 14 | I must 've been out at the wrong time . |
| 15 | I must 'ave been light-headed with starvation . |
| 16 | The next English authority to which I must refer is Avon Finance Co . |
| 17 | And the question of allergy doctors I must confess is outside my remit . |
| 18 | What I must do is get to know the people over a few hours or days and find out what they 're trying to do , what their activities are , whether they have children or pets . |
| 19 | ‘ First thing I must do is to sell the emeralds I inherited from my mother , they will bring me in enough to buy in leather and begin to trade again . ’ |
| 20 | Erm the the impression I 'm left with I must admit is that that that the cart has followed the horse if that 's right in that erm the environmental justification for the figures has been retrospective . |
| 21 | One of the things I I I found it very difficult to start with I must admit is that to prejudge that people would or would not go in . |
| 22 | Another argument I must meet is that while it is one thing to tolerate behaviour and remove criminal sanctions , in this case concerning homosexual activities , it is quite another thing to facilitate and give recognition to unions built on such activities . |
| 23 | Then one evening — I must have been 12 or 13 at the time — we were driving back from visiting my nan in Kent . |
| 24 | I must have been knitting . |
| 25 | I must have been arranging those flowers , and setting the lighted candles round them , at the very moment my father was dying . |
| 26 | From outside , the church looked very old , and deserted , and I began to wonder why I had come ; and I must have been a little late , because in the perfect stillness within , the members of the congregation already knelt — like statues , some caught in a swath of rainbow light where the rising sun shone through a stained-glass window , splashing the bowed heads and bent shoulders with crimson , royal blue , emerald and gold . |
| 27 | It seems to me now that I must have been more than a little simple , because I received a telephone call from the home the very next day . |
| 28 | I think I must have been knocked down by a car . ’ |
| 29 | It was a hot day , and I think I must have been half asleep when I noticed something very strange . |
| 30 | I must have been crackers even to think it ! ’ |