Example sentences of "[noun] must have [been] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Agnes said the words to herself , her mind telling her that this was the end of June and her sister must have been carrying this dreadful secret since … when ? |
| 2 | One of Town 's resolutions must have been to make more of their chances . |
| 3 | He presumed the dog must have been left alone in the house . |
| 4 | Finn must have been lying awake in the darkness , as she was , the wall separating them like Tristan 's sword , for she could hear the soft murmur of him and Francie talking together for a little while , but she could not make out one word . |
| 5 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 6 | The Gamay vines must have been planted prior to 1948 . |
| 7 | The humans must have been having similar thoughts , if humans had thoughts . |
| 8 | Kammerer must have been imposing such intense selection on such a large sample of eggs that he was able to filter out the odd egg that carried the remnant complex of genes still present in the species ' gene pool at very low frequencies . |
| 9 | If however , there was no open way remaining , then the rising main must have been brought all the way up to the top of the shaft . |
| 10 | Shotwell ( 1955 ) attempted to distinguish between bones from different sources by devising an index of completeness of preservation , by which species represented by most complete remains must have been transported shorter distances and therefore have come from communities close by , while species with less well preserved remains must have come from more distant communities . |
| 11 | Alex 's strange position in the production must have been making all of the usual understudy agonies even worse . |