Example sentences of "must have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While they must have been closely linked , it would help if we could distinguish between the circulation of such goods and their deposition in graves , for it is the latter which is actually being studied . |
| 2 | This implies that the galaxies must have been closer together in the past . |
| 3 | As argued earlier , for prevalence to have risen to over 1,000 in 1984–5 from a very low baseline in 1979 and a major acceleration in the incidence rate around 1982–3 , annual incidence for the five agencies must have been over 400 during 1984–5 , compared with nearer 300 in 1985–6 . |
| 4 | Although it must have been over a hundred years old the cottage was still on the edge of the village simply because there was no building land beyond it . |
| 5 | one which must have been probably about so thick |
| 6 | I must have been partly stupefied by something they gave me . |
| 7 | Their women folk must have been equally formidable . |
| 8 | My boyhood hero Nelson must have been equally impressed . |
| 9 | I think I was feeling guilty — although we must have been equally relieved to have the subject at our disposal . |
| 10 | He must have been equally surprised to see her but he recovered first , and while Rachel was still floundering to find something to say and Julie was murmuring something about hoping he would enjoy working at OBEX he said , ‘ Actually , we 've met before . |
| 11 | ‘ Just think what she must have been through ! |
| 12 | It was , as Steve Hammond said , all there , but there was nothing , she realised , in all those pages to tell her of the particular hell this couple must have been through . |
| 13 | Not a challenging or penetrating tour of enquiry , especially as the population of Aberdeen at the time must have been not less than twenty thousand . |
| 14 | That must have been where he got the idea from , of course . |
| 15 | I of er , was it last week erm , yeah it must have been where the the coloured lad |
| 16 | For exemption to apply , the gift must have been made at least seven years before the donor 's death and moreover , it must have been unconditionally given ; or to use the jargon , ‘ without reservation ’ . |
| 17 | I THINK I must have been slightly mad for most of my life . |
| 18 | In the glaring light , the racket of cicadas , the events of the night seemed in some way fictional ; as if I must have been slightly drugged . |
| 19 | The lady in question was married to a lawyer who , in spite of being a writer to the signet , must have been singularly incompetent , for , as Gorthie remarked , ‘ he 's a senseless fellow that can make no shift for her and a great many children they have ’ . |
| 20 | Well you must have been round because you 've |
| 21 | At present , the woman must have been continuously employed by the same employer for two years . |
| 22 | She must have been nearly forty years of age , tall , thin and plainly dressed . |
| 23 | She must have been nearly seventy . |
| 24 | It must have been nearly 5 o'clock when , having finally got the cars across that ferry , we eventually drove into Martigues in dazzling late afternoon sunshine to see the fishing boats come in . |
| 25 | It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone . |
| 26 | And he must have been nearly ten minutes ! |
| 27 | It must have been nearly an hour . |
| 28 | ‘ It must have been between half-past seven and eight . ’ |
| 29 | I must have been awfully slow , I never got in ahead of her and was always the poor mutt who staggered into the office in the small hours , bleary-eyed and half-dead , while Olive , yawning profusely and clutching her hot water bottle to her bosom , was able to trip down the path to her waiting bed and not surface till about midday the next day . |
| 30 | All I can say about that is that it must have been awfully feeble acid to make your visions come out so pedestrian as this . |