Example sentences of "must [verb] be [adv] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thegns lived in increasing grandeur but in wooden halls rather than masonry villas ; although tapestried and heated by a central fire they must have been both dirty and draughty . |
| 2 | To Sara , more hard-pressed than ever at Lime Street , the intellectual and emotional sympathy binding Coleridge and Dorothy must have been both apparent and distressing , even if Dorothy , in De Quincey 's words , was a woman possessing ‘ no personal charms ’ : on only the second day of the visit Coleridge and Dorothy were occupied together correcting his poems for the new edition while Sara was left to carry the domestic burdens of the teeming cottage . |
| 3 | From the large numbers that have been found in this country ‘ key rings ’ must have been both popular and fashionable items : they also served a practical purpose for at the time pockets were not known . |
| 4 | Now I understand er that you know we are providing public service here and we have got allow for public access but the cost of the council of having all its officers outside of this building for over er two hours must have been absolutely horrendous and I would have thought this would be an area where improving security ought to be a high priority so what are you going to do about it ? |
| 5 | I must have been quite content and happy . |
| 6 | She thought of Jonathan , but decided that she must have been too angry and hurt , because she could only manage to summon up the blurriest of images of him . |
| 7 | ‘ Your grandmother must have been very young and very brave when she married , ’ I said . |
| 8 | By placing a low upper limit on the density of such black holes , the observations will indicate that the early universe must have been very smooth and nonturbulent . |
| 9 | It must have been very cold and freezing . |
| 10 | He must have been more sentimental and less cynical then . |