Example sentences of "[adj] must have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fancy building , I mean that must have been done when , when the house was built . |
| 2 | Some must have been employed as supervisors . |
| 3 | At first I thought this must have been intended for someone else and began grubbing about in the wastepaper basket to find the envelope . |
| 4 | This must have been formed from Cr(CO) 6 by light-induced loss of a carbon monoxide molecule . |
| 5 | So what we know is that this must have been blocked up before this doorway was inserted , okay ? |
| 6 | And that payment before the day might be more beneficial , and consequently that the plea was in substance good , and this must have been decided in the case . |
| 7 | Only Pliny the Elder interrupts the silence by telling us that a Zachalias Babyloniensis — surely a Jew called Zacharias — wrote a book dedicated to Mithridates ( Eupator ? ) on the influence of precious stones on human destiny : this must have been written in Greek ( N.H. 37.60.169 ) . |
| 8 | However , this must have been countered by an urgent request from Butcher as two days later Miller sent his servant with a note , agreeing to meet at Bedford House by four o'clock in order to get as far as St Albans that evening . |
| 9 | This must have been agreed , as on 22 February , Major-General Galloway of MEHQ wrote to Eighth Army Headquarters to inform them that after the next series of operations , L Detachment would be withdrawn to re-form up to strength and be retrained as a parachute unit . |
| 10 | ‘ We lived at Witton Park between 1908 and 1914 so this must have been taken sometime during this period , ’ adds Mrs McAninly . |
| 11 | Among these , there is much for which it is likely that performances could never have been contemplated by whatever scratch ensembles could furtively be gathered at clandestine celebrations held in recusant households ; these must have been composed simply as an act of faith . |
| 12 | Furniture and furnishings in Parma show a strong French influence , too , being Parmesan adaptations of the Empire style ; and the local dialect has numerous words which are purely French ( although these must have been imported at an earlier time , perhaps under the Bourbons in the eighteenth century ) — armoir for armadio ( a wardrobe ) , vin for vino , boucho for tappo ( a cork ) , artichaut for carciofo ( an artichoke ) , and so on . |
| 13 | This is reflected in the rule that statements by the accused to be admissible must have been made voluntarily . |
| 14 | Number 77 must have been considered as ‘ good property ’ in those days . |
| 15 | Taken together the expansion of the middle-class suburbs was from about 28 , inhabitants in 1871 to over three-quarters of a million ( 808,000 ) just after World War I. The other large suburbs , of mixed population , though with working-class majorities , experienced similar trajectories : Lichtenberg grew from 4,700 in 1871 to 145,000 in 1919 , Rixdorf/ Neukolln from 8,145 to 262,000 , and Spandau from 20,500 to 95,500.10 The total population growth of just these large above-mentioned mainly working-class districts was of the order of 1.3 million from 1871 to World War I , a phenomenon which taken together with the revolutionary uprising of 1918 must have been frightening to Berlin 's middle classes in a manner hardly imaginable today . |
| 16 | ‘ used by virtue of that licence ’ In other words the vehicle concerned must have been used under the trade licence and not under a normal vehicle excise licence for an offence to contravene the law relating to trade licences . |
| 17 | One must have been born and have worked all one 's life in such a landscape to understand its secret life , to be able to feel its poetry , and to express it . |
| 18 | I think my desire to train a bird of my own must have been born right there in Colchester Park . |