Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] must [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the cooking would be done by slaves , and the kitchens must have been difficult to keep clean and mice and cockroaches a familiar sight . |
| 2 | Alida stepped from the surgery door into sudden sunlight , and beneath the contempt and the anger was a seed of relief , of new hope , of freedom , for the instrument did not lie , the sounds must have been clear , she had no heart disease , no weakness , no need to accept the fact of death . |
| 3 | Again we are faced with having to read between the lines , but the allusions must have been clear to most of Bukharin 's contemporaries . |
| 4 | Even the chickens must have been ashamed of those parts of their bodies when they were alive . |
| 5 | In most of the windows the curtains were partly drawn so that the rooms must have been dark , but the people probably lived in the back . |
| 6 | So , the Pioneers must have been wrong : and to pronounce that judgment upon heroic founding fathers must have been difficult . |
| 7 | Further along the village another house used to be the ‘ cookhouse ’ and game room for them — the meals must have been cold by the time they arrived at the table of Londesborough Lodge ! |
| 8 | They all say there were no passionate affairs but occasionally the tempters must have been successful . |
| 9 | Mrs. Twitchett , who provided the refreshments must have been unhappy , for within one month the Club changed its policy of taking all the profit to letting her have it ‘ if any ’ and agreeing to supply her with additional help at weekends and other special occasions . |
| 10 | When the Clause banning the promotion of homosexuality by local authorities was introduced into the Local Government Bill in December 1987 , the Tories must have been confident of no Labour resistance ; and with the honourable exception of Bernie Grant , now a Haringey MP , they were right . |