Example sentences of "must have been one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easter that year must have been one of the mixed joy and sadness when many old members returned after the War whilst others did not . |
| 2 | This must have been one of the more profitable periods in the mill 's history for , over the next few years , Wight installed steam power as well as a new water wheel . |
| 3 | This was the site of what must have been one of the longest running water disputes in molinological history . |
| 4 | It would be possible , Roland thought , to identify the breakfast party , which must have been one of Crabb Robinson 's later efforts to provide stimulating conversation for the students of the new London University . |
| 5 | And all that in one week , it must have been one of Madame 's special amateur talent weeks I suppose . |
| 6 | Charles Kingsley , writing of the final destruction of the Fens , was perhaps the first to regret the loss of what must have been one of the finest natural systems in Europe . |
| 7 | Molesworth 's chairmanship of the Select Committee on the Downing Street Public Offices Bill must have been one of his last acts as First Commissioner of Works , as on 21st July , 1855 , Palmerston promoted him to be Secretary of State for the Colonies , and appointed the President of the Board of Health , Sir Benjamin Hall ( 1802–67 ) , in his place . |
| 8 | The early days of talkies in Hollywood must have been one of the steepest learning-curves anyone anywhere has faced . |
| 9 | One of the first things to happen after my arrival at Bourn was the phasing out of Stirling bombers , so that the one that followed me around the perimeter track must have been one of the last to operate from there . |
| 10 | Corbett then spent what must have been one of the most miserable nights he had ever experienced . |
| 11 | The set ends at just the point where she was becoming a fashionable figure and , eventually , a popular one on a wider scale ; by the end of the Forties , she must have been one of the most admired singers of her day . |
| 12 | ‘ Must have been one of the crew . ’ |
| 13 | It must have been one of those little short-necked electric guitars that Lindley had . |
| 14 | Stamford must have been one of the religious and academic Meccas of ancient Albion , situated close to Troy , and a place of international pilgrimage for both mystics and scholars . |
| 15 | ‘ The horrifying thing is the thought that it must have been one of us that did it . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It must have been one hell of a party . |
| 17 | The overall effect of , for example , a group of elaborately dressed and bejewelled priestesses conducting a rite with carved and gilded cult objects against a background of inlaid furniture , brightly painted pillars and multi-coloured frescoes must have been one of dazzling opulence . |
| 18 | At the top of the scale , business must have taken a number of leading men out of town at the time the assessment was made , including , for example , Robert Thorne , Merchant Taylor and a notable benefactor to the City ; worth more than £20,000 at the time of his death in 1532 , he must have been one of the very richest men in England . |
| 19 | Having addressed the President and the Congress , and having conducted what must have been one of the first lecture tours of the United States , Owen set up a village of Co-operation at New Harmony , in Indiana . |
| 20 | This recipe must have been one of Boulestin 's favourites . |
| 21 | Another woman , in a different firm , who had been twenty years in the trade ( so must have been one of the original beginners ) reported in similar terms : " in the regular bookwork , the girls do the same work as the men , but they do not lift their own " formes " and " chases " . |
| 22 | During the following months the School managed to carry on , but the atmosphere must have been one of great despondency . |
| 23 | All that remains of the Port Ellen library is the brass Plaque and five volumes in the Gaelic which bear the date 1905 and one of them is number 305 , so it must have been one of the largest as well as one of the early ones . |
| 24 | An anonymous telephone call to the police must have been one option ; but that seemed unlikely because in that case the police would already be here . |
| 25 | Yet recently Dr Hsu of Zurich has suggested that they record what must have been one of the most spectacular incidents in earth history . |
| 26 | Her sensible cotton nightshirt must have been one of his discards . |
| 27 | This election must have been one of the last in Scotland where open bribery took place . |
| 28 | It must have been one of those men Angy sketched … the one she was talking about packing up . |
| 29 | Isolated in the middle of the pacific Ocean , 3,200 miles from Tahiti , and with a sea-crossing of almost a month stretching out before him to the next port of call , Darwin 's stay in this inhospitable volcanic outcrop must have been one of the lowest points for him on the entire trip . |
| 30 | ‘ This must have been one of the stupid ones , ’ said Nooty . |