Example sentences of "there must [verb] be [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must have been at least 30 people at the summit that day , and at the sound of plastic and thin glass striking skull through wool , every head turned to see what would happen next . |
| 2 | There must have been at least twenty cavalrymen rowelling their horses down the cart track . |
| 3 | I could n't see much this afternoon , but there must have been at least one whole corps on that road . |
| 4 | For everyone who lost his faith , there must have been at least another who went to outcast London or to darkest Africa to convert the faint and hungry heathen ; there was a great deal of Christian confidence , and not simply a Church in retreat before agnostic scientists . |
| 5 | There must have been at least one individual who had a different number of chromosomes from his parents . |
| 6 | ‘ There must have been at least a dozen of them , ’ I lied in mock modesty , ‘ and I doubt if four of them will live to greet tomorrow 's dawn . ’ |
| 7 | It is believed there must have been at least three people who knew exactly what they were looking for . |
| 8 | A Darlington police spokesman said the gang had broken into the offices , just off Hollyhurst Road , after 10.30pm on Friday night and the size of the safe indicated there must have been at least three people involved . |