Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] be in " in BNC.
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| 61 | Her presence in the workhouse in itself seems an odd occurrence ; it was hardly as if she had no-one to turn to — any one of her brothers must have been in a position to help when help was needed . |
| 62 | ‘ It must have been in the forest — ’ Joan said dreamily ‘ — because that is where they found him next day . |
| 63 | He realised they must have been in the accident . |
| 64 | Those Belgians must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time , and they probably saw something they should n't have seen , so someone shut them up for good . |
| 65 | An individual must have been in the business for ten years or have retained shares throughout this period to qualify for maximum relief . |
| 66 | Sheila and John think the burglar must have been in the house when they returned from a night out . |
| 67 | Oh , it must have been in a fight , sir . |
| 68 | It must have been in the late 1960s or early 1970s that I was bemoaning this problem with my French colleague Michel Vigier who was also disturbed at the prospect of being snowed under with an indigestible amount of data from DFDRs . |
| 69 | To belong , a dealer must have been in business for three years and have a proven reputation for expertise . |
| 70 | You must have been in full-time employment for a fixed time before you can claim ? |
| 71 | She did n't finish her apprenticeship — I deduce that , rather than know it — sometime , it must have been in 1934 , came south , worked in Woolworths on the Edgware Road , spent the war years in Roehampton , a ward maid again , at the hospital where they mended fighter pilots ' ruined faces . |
| 72 | It must have been in these years that Henry II and Eleanor became increasingly estranged . |
| 73 | Must have been in this room when I got here . |
| 74 | The reservations that Galileo 's rivals held about accepting phenomena such as the moons of Jupiter that Galileo had learnt to see must have been in part due , not to prejudice , but to genuine difficulties encountered when learning to ‘ see ’ through what were , after all , very crude telescopes . |
| 75 | Though one might think that all those who left must have been in agreement with the National Socialist ideology , there appear to have been artists of all persuasions who remained members . |
| 76 | The same thing is seen in a more hesitant form on another boy ( fig. 71 ) , and here the very slight tilt and turn of the head are part of a change in the pose of the whole figure , as they must have been in the fair-haired boy also . |
| 77 | This struggle , and the Greek unity half achieved in the course of it , must have been in the programmatist 's mind ; but the project was paid for out of spoils from the conquest of one Greek city by another , and the golden shield proudly crowning the newly finished temple was set there to celebrate an early clash in the fatal hostility of Athens and Sparta which was to culminate in the Peloponnesian war and the ruin of Greece . |
| 78 | IT SOUNDED SO CLOSE it must have been in the street below us . |
| 79 | He met my mother when he was in his early thirties and she must have been in her teens . |
| 80 | Some fairy must have been in love with your father . |
| 81 | It must have been in that one moment of darkness , as she 'd been taking her hand away . |
| 82 | That must have been in the middle of the night . |
| 83 | Improbable as it was , he must have been in love with her . |
| 84 | If to this is added the domestic tensions occasioned by Offa 's determination to secure the succession of his son , Ecgfrith , it becomes clear how highly charged the political atmosphere must have been in Offa 's last years . |
| 85 | She tried to imagine what an imposing building it must have been in its time . |
| 86 | Alternatively , you must have been in charge of a yacht for at least a week , perhaps on Villa-Flotilla . |
| 87 | I feel sure that someone I know must have been in there . |
| 88 | So he must have been in |
| 89 | ‘ The doctor must have been in league with Nigel , ’ Jacqui insisted truculently . |
| 90 | It must have been in the minds of the members of the Rushcliffe Committee as they took evidence . |