Example sentences of "must [vb infin] been a time " in BNC.
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1 | There must have been a time before Fenna , just as there must have been a time before words , but Maggie can not not conceive of either . |
2 | There must have been a time before Fenna , just as there must have been a time before words , but Maggie can not not conceive of either . |
3 | There must have been a time when each of these practices ceased to be tolerable and reasonable behaviour . |
4 | For example , his eyes were necessary for the finding of food and the locating of enemies , to name but two of many purely necessary functions , but there must have been a time when he first began to enjoy the visual beauty all around him . |
5 | There must have been a time when we did n't quarrel , when we were just content to be together . |
6 | However , general relativity claims to be only a partial theory , so what the singularity theorems really show is that there must have been a time in the very early universe when the universe was so small , that one could no longer ignore the small-scale effects of the other great partial theory of the twentieth century , quantum mechanics . |
7 | I suppose there must have been a time when it was n't like this ? ’ |