Example sentences of "that it must [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The horrifying thing is the thought that it must have been one of us that did it . ’ |
| 2 | The week before that it must have been eleven , twelve . |
| 3 | The Court could look at the facts before the Minister and if those were insufficient in law to support his determination then the Court would deem that it must have been arbitrary . |
| 4 | When the guard learned what had happened , he simply laughed and said that it must have been old Humphrey . |
| 5 | Their contention was that the constable must have a specific fear in mind ; ‘ he must be able to say which pit , which miners and when , ’ and that it must have been clear from the words and deeds of the appellants themselves ( and the others associated with them on the spot ) that a breach of the peace would ensue . |
| 6 | How much money went with this is not known but the scale of the ruins — the shell of the reactor is still visible — suggest that it must have been several million dollars even in 1950s prices , perhaps 1 per cent of the gross national product of Argentina , or roughly the equivalent of a whole year 's research budget for a developed country . |
| 7 | If we think about Freud and his influence it is not hard to find out what he wrote and said , and it is easy to guess that it must have been important . |