Example sentences of "[conj] must have been " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had pretty hair and must have been nice-looking when she was young . |
| 32 | He recorded a visit of several days to Thorndon , Lord Petre 's estate , where he collected many rare specimens and must have been delighted by the tapestry of exotic climbers woven through trellises at the back of the stoves ( see p. 55 ) . |
| 33 | Specialized ornithischians in the late Cretaceous were the remarkable duck-billed dinosaurs , animals that lost their front teeth and had arrays of tiny grinding teeth at the back of the jaw that were continually replaced , like those of the shark , and must have been able to cope with tough vegetation . |
| 34 | However , as it was not on the list submitted to Angell and Pownall for examination , his design was probably never tested for its practicality or compliance with the conditions , and must have been brought to the lay judges ' attention after the assessors had completed their work . |
| 35 | Those hours spent with Mr. Golding are a very pleasant memory — he was always kind and must have been a nice type of man to allow a small boy to help , or should I say hinder him . |
| 36 | Mr. Farr 's garden was on the right hand side at the end of the footpath and must have been almost an acre in extent . |
| 37 | Everyone said I looked worn out and must have been gadding about too much ! |
| 38 | The phrase ‘ married to a hearing wife ’ is written in a different hand and must have been entered after 1839 which was the year Lowe married a Francis Charlotte Jellicoe in London . |
| 39 | Below The horned dinosaurs had much more bend in each joint , and must have been rhino-like in gait . |
| 40 | I was determined to get him , and must have been concentrating so intently on his movements that , like a fool , I forgot to look in the mirror until it was too late . |
| 41 | The agreement for their sale to Cohens was dated 12 October 1935 , and must have been signed while it was still hoped that the line would open right through from Sutton to the Crystal Palace in one operation . |
| 42 | To be eligible to be purchased by the Bank of England the bills must have an underlying short-term trade finance role , as evidenced by a clause on the face of the bill , and must have been accepted by an ‘ eligible ’ bank . |
| 43 | Both works exploit the possibilities of clever echo effects , and must have been performed out of doors , with each orchestra in a different place . |
| 44 | Schoolboy Bobby Dennison said : ‘ She missed me and my friend by inches and must have been doing about 60mph . |
| 45 | What intrigues me is that Mailer has spent years on it , has published almost 1,200 pages , is at work on part two and must have been doing all this while the Reagan/Bush/Casey/North epoch went rolling past a society and a mass media obsessed with Nancy 's wardrobe and the cultivation of the perfect junk-bond . |
| 46 | For Order 69 to apply the process must be in connection with ‘ civil or commercial proceedings in a foreign court or tribunal ’ and must have been received by the Senior Master with a written request for service from a consular or other authority in a convention country ( which term includes countries with which the United Kingdom has a relevant bilateral Convention and countries party to the Hague Convention ) or from the Foreign Secretary ( who would have been approached via diplomatic channels by the authorities of another state ) 262 . |
| 47 | ( b ) She was 34 weeks pregnant and must have been anxious as to the health of her baby . |
| 48 | According to the Crown 's argument , this provision seems to be unnecessary and must have been included in the Act ( and presumably also in the draft Bill ) as a mere matter of convenience . |
| 49 | She stood with the quality of a wanton twelve year old and must have been , what , seventeen , eighteen ? |
| 50 | The first time she nearly burnt me in my bed , and the second time she visited you , and must have been reminded of her own wedding day by seeing your wedding dress . ’ |
| 51 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |
| 52 | And must have been I think it was one of the things that that helped to lead to a more settled period . |
| 53 | Six surviving compositions may be ascribed with certainty to Plummer , namely two movements of a four-voiced tenor Mass with the antiphon ‘ Nesciens Mater ’ as its tenor , and three three-voiced settings of Marian antiphons which do not use the chant and must have been sung as votive memorial pieces ; his masterpiece , Anna Mater Matris Christi , sets a respond , again without the chant , in a remarkable texture of three equal tenors with an optional treble part riding above — certainly a fitting example of the art of the master of the chapel children . |
| 54 | The index varies considerably in size from year to year , and must have been trimmed to fit the space available ; the number of illustrations fell over time ; and the publisher changed . |
| 55 | If confusion and resentment are to be avoided the change-over must be simple to understand and must have been heralded so far in advance that it is almost an anti-climax when it finally comes . |
| 56 | This transhumance to distant resources is often thought of only in connection with more primitive and foreign communities , but it was certainly common in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times and must have been in earlier periods as well ( Figs. 11 , 59 and 93 ) . |
| 57 | And must have been the ghost . |
| 58 | ( She also taught the social secretary to play the piano , but he was not an apt pupil and must have been a great disappointment to her . ) |
| 59 | So far , I have discussed the hunting economy purely as an immediate-return one , and such indeed it is in central Australia and must have been in the case of the first hunters . |
| 60 | You must have LIFESPAN Quality Assurer privilege to approve a package and must have been previously nominated by the package manager . |