Example sentences of "must [verb] [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it must have been over a hundred years old the cottage was still on the edge of the village simply because there was no building land beyond it . |
| 2 | It must have been nearly an hour . |
| 3 | I 'm sure it must have been rather a strain to keep pretending an interest in a boring little milliner from Mannheim . ’ |
| 4 | Charles , then , was the second brother to be left a widower , after Thomas ; the domestic burden thus falling upon him and his remaining daughters must have been rather a daunting one , including the need to feed , control and educate young Ben , then only nine years old . |
| 5 | Now , if that were right , that is , here 's our bodily bit here , that 's what individuates them , right , Socrates is shorter than Plato , Plato is a bit taller than Socrates , Socrates has funny bulgy eyes , erm Plato must have been rather a normal looking person , a variety of things that differentiate them , but they 're not different in respect of being human beings . |
| 6 | He did n't actually live in St Aldate 's , but he must have been here a lot , because he was mayor in 1636 , he was an alderman erm he was very much a leading in the city , and I think the leader of the opposition to Royal Policies . |
| 7 | ‘ There must have been just a small problem of logistics . |
| 8 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 9 | Well that must have been just a bus going . |
| 10 | It started him out on a career which must have been exactly the kind envisaged by Gladstone and the pioneers of the public library system . |
| 11 | The second was Owen 's declaration that there was another way , easy and immediate ; a message which , in the collapse of the generally uncritical expectations attending the successful struggle to secure the passage of the Bill must have been all the more persuasive . |
| 12 | Whatever they were called , the duties of all these officials must have been much the same , acting as leaders of their communities , settling minor infractions and disputes , approving corporate actions of the inhabitants , especially in religious dedications , and acting generally as an essential link between government and people . |
| 13 | Receiving the Order of Lenin from Gorbachev 's men must have been almost a humiliation for Ceauşescu on his seventieth birthday in 1988 . |
| 14 | If she was not , then she must have been almost the only member of Edinburgh political society who managed to know nothing about it — and that in itself would be a comment on her political awareness . |
| 15 | With a compulsion to work that must have been almost the equal of that of Van Gogh , he plunged into print-making and in too short a time had effectively burnt himself out . |
| 16 | Mr. Farr 's garden was on the right hand side at the end of the footpath and must have been almost an acre in extent . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose it must have been about a quarter past eight . |
| 18 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 19 | That must have been quite a bible lesson . |
| 20 | It must have been quite a crash . |
| 21 | Our press date prevents us giving details of this run but it must have been quite a spectacle if it went ahead as reported , and would have provided a fitting finale to an outstanding season of operations . |
| 22 | She must have been quite a joker with that bantam on her head , pigeons fluttering noisily on her shoulders ; it had all been wonderful outdoor fun . |
| 23 | It must have been quite a spectacle though when the first combine came |
| 24 | It must have been quite a shock when he turned up on the doorstep . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ There must have been quite a few since Lucia and Michele . ’ |
| 26 | sticks , erm , there must have been quite a few schools for girls |
| 27 | Must have been quite a Would there have been a procession behind it or anything ? |
| 28 | ‘ Mixed marriage ’ seems such an outdated expression nowadays but at the turn of the century it must have been quite a sacrifice for both of them to make . |
| 29 | is very clever to have got his weight down , and an 11-mile orienteering course at Silverdale must have been quite a testing expedition . |
| 30 | Well that must have been quite a mess . |