Example sentences of "[adv] must have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone , somewhere must have been concerned for and worried about these unfortunate children and found their absence odd ; surely too , someone must have paid their fare and seen them off on their journey . |
| 2 | Another woman , in a different firm , who had been twenty years in the trade ( so must have been one of the original beginners ) reported in similar terms : " in the regular bookwork , the girls do the same work as the men , but they do not lift their own " formes " and " chases " . |
| 3 | Now her vivid imagination had no difficulty in showing her how Mark 's last drive alone must have been , how miserable he must have felt . |
| 4 | Yeah I 'm much must have been only a very young teenager . |
| 5 | ‘ The person who put this together must have been living in a box for the last 10 years . ’ |
| 6 | Understandably outraged by the revelations that colleagues had been implicated , however unwittingly , in the notorious Project Camelot , linked with CIA activities in Cambodia , American Anthropologists have often tended to assume that those working in ‘ colonial situations ’ elsewhere must have been similarly employed as , in effect , government agents . |
| 7 | In winter that walk back home must have been hell : sleet , rain , snow and ice blowing across the moss , wet clothes clinging to chilled skin and ahead and behind a long line of miners ' lanterns " bobbing like glowworms in the dark " . |
| 8 | His tie was muddy green with flowers which once must have been yellow . |
| 9 | Another similar adjective is platonic which equally clearly must have been used associatively , to mean having a link with Plato ( as indeed it still does in one of its senses ) before it came to have an ascriptive value roughly equivalent to chaste . |
| 10 | I realized that the cheerfully forceful woman I had seen the day before must have been Mrs Maureen Kenny herself . |
| 11 | A wooden Tudor bowl and a cider flagon cover the top of a pine haberdasher 's chest ; the framed crewelwork behind must have been ‘ horrendously bright ’ at one time , but has now faded to more acceptably gentle colours . |
| 12 | I really must have been insane . |
| 13 | Got back safe an safe and sound tt , was able to tell them all school about too , which really must have been an education for those since nobody had left the town , very far , anyway . |
| 14 | The extra pound a day for their film work did little to compensate for their tiredness which surely must have been as much due to under-nourishment as overwork . |
| 15 | For Dennis Awori , the chairman of the KENYA Rugby Union and one of the talented group of players to have put Kenyan rugby on the seven-a-side map , the inability of his side to concentrate and play consistently well must have been nerve-wrecking . |
| 16 | well must have been different neighbours to my day ! |
| 17 | This competition has eluded United since its inception in 1961 , and after last season 's defeat by Sheffield Wednesday there must have been doubts that they would ever win it . |
| 18 | We had deduced there must have been at least four : . |
| 19 | And he said from the looks of it there must have been you know sort of dead , whatever it was , and there was a couple of fingers and a couple of toes , right ? |
| 20 | All that in there must have been that thick . |
| 21 | The stuff circulating in her veins by then must have been a cocktail in which blood was a fairly minor ingredient . |
| 22 | It is entirely illegitimate to read post-Freudian standards into a pre-Freudian world or to assume that sexual behaviour then must have been like ours . |
| 23 | The part of the increase due to its ‘ privileged ’ position of being able to borrow cheaply and invest profitably abroad must have been rather small , let alone the part which could be in any way attributed to direct pressure on foreign central banks to provide this finance . |
| 24 | Having also personally experienced the problems at Southwark Offset , I realise how daunting the prospect of trying again must have been . |
| 25 | erm I think two people have had tremendous problems and again must have been going up and down St Aldate 's , because they were very busy officials , was Edward Hyde , who later became Earl of Clarendon and wrote his story of the war , again of course from the Royalist point of view , and his great friend , Lord Falkland , who was Secretary of State for the King , and became so upset and worried by the rash policies of the Queen 's party and the general atmosphere of intrigue , and by the war itself , that he does seem to have more or less committed suicide at the battle of Newbury , by riding ahead of his troops into the enemy . |
| 26 | Since a sentence was the basis for execution , and the sentence was pronounced inter partes , execution too must have been similarly limited . |
| 27 | At least , David Mellor in the Press box was pleased , and so too must have been John Major whose only smiles these days seem to be inspired by the performances of Chelsea . |
| 28 | This has the appearance of an emergency military operation which may not apply to the other civil defences , but these too must have been commissioned for a specific occasion , but where the emergency may not have been too critical . |
| 29 | His father too must have been well satisfied with the Peace of Montmirail . |
| 30 | Finally , the ‘ deme judges ’ ( again an originally Pisistratid invention ) dispensed a justice which was uniform for all Attica , but they travelled round the demes on a kind of assize circuit ; they too must have been agents of unification . |