Example sentences of "must have be an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been an hour and a half at least before we managed to get the thing out of the water . |
| 2 | It must have been an hour or more . |
| 3 | she left that and she 's gone to do her midwifery and now when she gets the other day she was looking at old pay slips God , she must have been an idiot to give up a sister 's post cos she said her wages have dropped terrible to do this course ! |
| 4 | Of course Hayward 's physical condition was such that he could no longer live alone — he had spent the war years as a guest of the Rothschilds in Cambridge and there must have been an element of sympathy or even pity in Eliot 's invitation to him ; the presence of old-fashioned Yankee rectitude in his character , and the quiet acceptance of " duty " in his role as Hayward 's companion and helper , can not be ignored . |
| 5 | Must have been an Ovaltiney ! |
| 6 | The Scarman Report commented on the turnover of staff in the mail order department in 1976 : ‘ many of the immigrant workers did not stay for very long : the threat of dismissal must have been an anxiety for many in the workforce . |
| 7 | There must have been an involvement in something sufficiently profitable or menacing or both to lead somebody to murder . |
| 8 | As John Blair says for Lewes , ‘ the creation of a group of holdings within a convenient radius and accessible from one manorial centre must have been an act of policy by the priory or its patrons ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ After your nightmares a boat trip must have been an ordeal . ’ |
| 10 | He quickly — but , Charlie was to learn later , by his own standards , slowly — organised the men into ranks of three before reporting back to someone who Charlie assumed must have been an officer . |
| 11 | There must have been an alarm in the office , like . |
| 12 | There must have been an increase in the number of different kinds of animals and plants since the Precambrian ; for example , the conquering of land alone gave rise to a multitude of new opportunities for the colonizing organisms , resulting in an increase in the total number of species . |
| 13 | Robert 's mum , a hospital staff nurse , said : ‘ Robert must have been an emergency because he had a vocabulary of four words at the age of three and speech therapy was no good to him because he could n't hear what they were trying to teach him . |
| 14 | The architect must have been an opium fiend . |
| 15 | Got back safe an safe and sound tt , was able to tell them all school about too , which really must have been an education for those since nobody had left the town , very far , anyway . |
| 16 | Mind you the title was a bit funny because it did n't Almost an Angel but if he died and he went to heaven , then he must have been an angel but came back down , he 's still an angel . |
| 17 | ‘ There must have been an accident . ’ |
| 18 | It must have been an outsider . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ So , the murderer or murderess must have been an outsider ? ’ |
| 20 | The families of the two dead teenagers say there must have been an alternative to opening fire . |
| 21 | Devon Malcolm must have been an option , but other candidates like Alan Igglesden , Martin McCague , Dominic Cork and Phil Newport were discounted by injury while Paul Jarvis has yet to rediscover top form . |
| 22 | That 's an uncommon name , it must have been an ancestor of yours who translated the Bible into English . ’ |