Example sentences of "must have [been] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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1 | I must have been the greatest bore ever , and it 's a wonder that those I inflicted my views upon did n't rebel . |
2 | Volcanic effects have been even more sudden and disastrous , ranging from the explosion of the island of Krakatoa , between Java and Sumatra , in 1883 to the even more catastrophic eruption of Santorini ( or Thira ) in the Aegean about 1470 B.C. This eruption , or series of eruptions , which resulted in the huge collapsed caldera in the sea beside the present island , must have been the greatest catastrophe ever witnessed by man and may well have been heard as far away as Britain . |
3 | It was a big house , at least four good bedrooms , and the garden must have been the best part of two acres . |
4 | and the back well it must have been the best part of should think a third of an acre |
5 | He asked me a lot of suspicious questions , and eventually I was shown to what must have been the poorest room in his house , over the kitchen , facing a hen-run . |
6 | Greg pushed the door and found himself in what must have been the largest room in the cottage . |
7 | There followed what must have been the longest two hours of my life . |
8 | My mother told my father and I think that must have been the worst time of my life . |
9 | The first fourteen hours must have been the worst of the journey as I was not able to sleep , whatever position I sat in . |
10 | We said it must have been the worst ever experience . |
11 | Teague helped form what must have been the quietest back row in the history of the game when he joined up Dean Richards and Winterbottom in the 1991 Grand Slam side . |
12 | It was an amazing last 15 mins and the crowd fo nearly 38,000 must have been the biggest and noisiest for at least 10 yrs . |
13 | On top of which , I think Binbrook must have been the coldest RAF Station in England . |
14 | The other story I recall to mind about this time is that Cranwell in those days must have been the coldest spot south of the Arctic Circle and the ration of coal to fire the single stove in a billet of 22 erks took little account of the temporary hutment , Some genius had laid down that the ration of coal would he 1lb of coal every other day was sufficient to ward off armies of brass monkeys that descended on Cranwell in winter . |