Example sentences of "they must have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among them must have been many new men pushing up from below . |
| 2 | He paused and added , ‘ If anyone took them , they must have been clever — there are no fingerprints to be found , apart from the two nurses ' . ’ |
| 3 | What types of boats were used is hard to conceive , but they must have been small and of shallow draught . |
| 4 | Sometimes , it is true , they must have been little more than what Marc Bloch described as ‘ l'endroit où on passe ’ ; but one may presume that efforts were made to drain long-distance roads and keep them clear of obstruction ; and kings and princes in several countries regarded the main roads as their roads . |
| 5 | This means they must have been capable of crawling onto the land , like the sole survivors today of such creatures , called the dipnoans , a type of fish with lungs which live in Africa , Australia and South America . |
| 6 | They must have been such wonderful beings , and now even the legacy of their environment was being rewritten by the humans , changed with every curved floor covered by a flat grille , every piece of art ripped from the walls and studied out of context , every subtle nuance of space filled with metal and plastic , neural net cabinets , stores , machinery , even people . |
| 7 | Even all the London press were raving about Leeds … which means they MUST have been good … okay , the team ; |
| 8 | Presumably they went out of favour because when one thinks about them , they must have been dangerous . |
| 9 | Now I have considerable respect for the House of Commons ' Environment Committee but I think on this occasion they must have been tired and emotional when they wrote that . |
| 10 | They must have been close to the same age , but Sandra looked very young , like a petulant child wearing the costume of a grown woman . |
| 11 | They must have been amazed and resentful that Pyke wanted to listen to me , of all people , someone who was barely an actor . |
| 12 | Little was known about bacteria and viral infections , and they must have been hard to avoid without knowledge of modern hygiene standards , let alone the benefits of refrigeration and freezers . |
| 13 | But the only difference that I see was that they pushed their ploughs there , so they must have been smaller than the ones we use . |
| 14 | Although the nature of the vagotomies surveyes in these reports is not stated , the follow up period is such that they must have been truncal vagotomies . |
| 15 | I imagined they must have been bold generals like Arsenio and Osvaldo , pathfinders like X. Ray , stalwarts like the Corporal , boys as eager and facile as my woodchucks . |
| 16 | As the sun could never shine into the houses at any time of the day they must have been cold and damp . |
| 17 | I could not identify my feelings , they must have been those of shock . |
| 18 | How would you get them into the boat , because they must have been heavy ? |
| 19 | They must have been pious . |
| 20 | They must have been sick and tired of my harping about gay rights , but by the time I had decided to move to London in order to set up home with the man of my dreams , my workmates organized a leaving party which was a touching celebration of the relationship between Keith and myself . |
| 21 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 22 | They must have been high up in the tree , leaves . |
| 23 | The walls covered with pictures , others on tables , and portfolios of different sizes all round the room , they must have been full shows . |
| 24 | They must have been Steen coming back on the Saturday . |
| 25 | Generally , however , they must have been concerned to persuade him to become an amenable ruler . |
| 26 | They must have been gregarious from the start . |
| 27 | With the binoculars that they carried , they must have been able to see her from the moment that she set out . |
| 28 | Some of these straight orthocone nautiloids achieve considerable dimensions , several metres long , and they must have been formidable predators on the other marine animals of the time . |