Example sentences of "must have [be] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was even rumoured that Western architects were approached , but that must have been at a subordinate level since early on one clear idea took hold of Ceauşescu 's mind : the whole project , from design through the workforce to the materials used , must come from Romania itself . |
| 2 | We all know the facts and figures by now … if you do n't then you must have been on a different planet this weekend … |
| 3 | It must have been on a main line , because there were two sets of tracks , and the mouth of the tunnel had seemed to him — he might have been five , six ? — bigger than anything he had ever seen , bigger than anything he had known could exist . |
| 4 | Cos the carpet must have been worth a bloody fortune anyway ! |
| 5 | I once saw a painted picture of something like it in the Rockefeller Centre — must have been worth a million dollars or more — but we never had anything like that , so that mountain was my art , something beautiful and eternal . |
| 6 | Eventually ( it would later be established it must have been within a few minutes of six-thirty ) the car slowed to a halt . |
| 7 | ‘ You must have been in a bad way . |