Example sentences of "[modal v] have been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In this case we can calculate that the average output per obverse die must have been between 23,000 and 47,000 . |
| 32 | Unfortunately , the burial period must have been between 1400 and 1000 B.C. , a time far distant from the legendary date of the battle between Coilus and Fergus . |
| 33 | The first sexual casual pick-up I had was also in South Wales ; this must have been about 1965–6 when I was nineteen or twenty . |
| 34 | It is difficult to visualize now , but it must have been within this pavilion that the young Roshanara consulted her spies as she reclined on carpets beside the gently bubbling irrigation runnels . |
| 35 | ‘ Well , it must have been after that he had his accident . ’ |
| 36 | There was a time , no doubt — it must have been before 1948 , when the United Kingdom itself abolished allegiance as the basis of citizenship — when the pretence of daughter monarchies around the globe was harmless and even arguably beneficial . |
| 37 | No it must have been before nineteen eighty . |
| 38 | Something like that , it must have been like that . |
| 39 | Marley must have been like that himself . |
| 40 | It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana . |
| 41 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 42 | It must have been like this watching a man being broken on the rack , Blanche thought . |
| 43 | Oh it was a dreadful thing when you come to think of it now , the poor women could n't help it she was must have been in desperate straits to do a thing like that . |
| 44 | She did n't finish her apprenticeship — I deduce that , rather than know it — sometime , it must have been in 1934 , came south , worked in Woolworths on the Edgware Road , spent the war years in Roehampton , a ward maid again , at the hospital where they mended fighter pilots ' ruined faces . |
| 45 | So it must have been in nineteen eighty nine , just after the |
| 46 | He saw a vast patch of blood and guessed that the ship must have been in one of the many petty skirmishes which took place at sea , for ships of various nations , Norway , Denmark , England , Scotland and France used these waters for fishing , trade and piracy . |
| 47 | She must have been in one of those baskets in the back of the car , Ruth supposed . |
| 48 | It must have been in that one moment of darkness , as she 'd been taking her hand away . |
| 49 | Aaron 's mother , Lesley , 26 , said : ‘ He was very calm and must have been in great pain . |
| 50 | You must have been in full-time employment for a fixed time before you can claim ? |
| 51 | Well , I must have been in first year juniors . |
| 52 | Others , however , joined in the exercise : ‘ It must have been in such and such a way ; I mean , there 's a story which says … |
| 53 | Coming back , as always , to the Jurassic , one has only to compare the 30 ammonite zones represented in one foot of sediment in Sicily with the 15 000 feet representing a single zone in Oregon , to realise how startlingly different rates of deposition must have been in different places . |
| 54 | This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple . |
| 55 | Must have been in this room when I got here . |
| 56 | By the middle of 1802 , as the family house and shop passed into other hands , Ben was left alone with only sisters for company ; Elizabeth , the eldest , had very recently married , and little brother must have been in imminent danger of succumbing to the petticoat government of Mary and Sarah . |
| 57 | It must have been in these years that Henry II and Eleanor became increasingly estranged . |
| 58 | This transhumance to distant resources is often thought of only in connection with more primitive and foreign communities , but it was certainly common in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times and must have been in earlier periods as well ( Figs. 11 , 59 and 93 ) . |
| 59 | If this prophecy conveys anything of the sentiments of the Crowland community at the time , it must have been from congenial company hostile to Penda 's descendants that Aethelbald emerged to establish himself as king in Mercia , if not when Ceolred died ( ASC A , s.a. , 716 ) then certainly when an otherwise unknown Ceolwald , who may have succeeded Ceolred , died or was driven out . |
| 60 | Said it 'll have been in all day . |