Example sentences of "must have been as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extra pound a day for their film work did little to compensate for their tiredness which surely must have been as much due to under-nourishment as overwork . |
| 2 | She reckoned there must have been as many as four hundred of them . |
| 3 | Standing at the corner of Great Tower Street and Seething Lane , in the very shadow of the Tower of London , All Hallows must have been as impressive a building then as it is today : one of the oldest parish churches in the City , it has always had close links with the Tower itself , and was used as a place of burial for many an unfortunate wretch executed on the nearby scaffold . |
| 4 | It was an unhealthy enough place to be even at the best of times , swampy and malaria-ridden ; any Europeans trading there would have been only too aware of the risks involved , and the depleted crew of the Orynthia , overworked and probably ill-fed , must have been as vulnerable as they could possibly be . |
| 5 | The changes must have been as great as those in western Europe after 1789 , but their impact could only be traced piecemeal . |
| 6 | The Thames valley Saxons must have been as anxious as Oswald and Anna to contain Penda . |
| 7 | It must have been as clear to him as it was to her that Jeff , most definitely , was n't acting . |
| 8 | He must have been as tired as she was , having undoubtedly had a lot less sleep … |
| 9 | Wolves 1 Middlesbrough 2 THE final 25 minutes of this nerve-wracking game must have been as dramatic as any in Middlesbrough 's history . |
| 10 | I am not certain of the date when the Navy finally abandoned the general use of hammocks , but to my mind it must have been as retrogressive a decision as that taken when abandoning the tot of ‘ Nelson 's blood ’ at 12 noon every day ! |