Example sentences of "[noun sg] must have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stark though the contrast must have been , Sir Monty explains the transfer from the closeted laboratory life to the public glare of big business with simple logic : |
| 2 | According to Carrick 's admittedly biassed complaint , the anonymous correspondent must have been an ambitious junior officer , for ‘ there is no body of Men so full of plot and envy as the Excise ’ . |
| 3 | This is because the profit function before the change must have been horizontal at the optimum , so a small change in the optimum price will make only a marginal difference to the firms ' profits . |
| 4 | That patience must have been well-schooled here , and I would need lots of it myself if I was to follow her tracks from card to cryptic card through all the boxes . |
| 5 | Quick , as her dead sister must have been . |
| 6 | Agnes said the words to herself , her mind telling her that this was the end of June and her sister must have been carrying this dreadful secret since … when ? |
| 7 | She was only twenty when she was saddled with me , yet she never made me feel I was a drag , and heaven knows a kid sister must have been at times . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Because one of the most important qualities a driver must have is concentration . |
| 9 | I 'm forty-eight this year , me mum must have been in there nearly fifty year . |
| 10 | We were walk walking to erm the , down the high street and a plane went over , and erm , I think mum must have been saying to her about Aunty Jill being on holiday , and she went , ah , there 's Aunty Jill in the plane going to the city . |
| 11 | Theo 's fears that his brother was on a self-destructive course must have been at least partly eased by this letter . |
| 12 | However , " consistency " does not mean that the normal course must have been followed on the occasion in question , otherwise it would be impossible to argue course of dealing in the case where it is most relevant . |
| 13 | Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here , and we 're feeling the after-effects . ’ |
| 14 | The noise must have been awful but it was sweet music to my ears . |
| 15 | Importance of contacts : Sir Patrick is quite happy with the thought that one of BP 's intentions in inviting him to join its board must have been to gain access to his little black book . |
| 16 | The wave must have been fifteen feet high . |
| 17 | The initial resemblance of the ancestral stick insect to a stick must have been very remote . |
| 18 | Tolkien must have been thinking of Njorthr the sea-god and Skathi , daughter of the mountain-giant , in Snorri Sturluson 's Prose Edda . |
| 19 | These six Sonatas give evidence of an outstanding creative personality , and a ferociously energetic temperament ( they sound ferociously difficult as well : her keyboard technique must have been staggering ) . |
| 20 | Something of the kind must have been operative when Galileo first introduced the telescope as an instrument for exploring the heavens . |
| 21 | ‘ Your message re the krytron that provoked Hawkins 's ire must have been badly handled . ’ |
| 22 | However , Honderich himself throws up difficulties with regard to his third point , in that Conservatism must have been at least partly responsible for the ‘ decent ’ society he found when he arrived in Britain thirty years ago . |
| 23 | This election must have been one of the last in Scotland where open bribery took place . |
| 24 | Anselm found this retreat difficult to accept ; after his own loyalty to the terms of the papal decree , the pope 's vacillation and suggestion of over-reaction on Anselm 's part must have been hard to swallow . |
| 25 | The book of Kings for instance must have been written after the last event it mentions — the release of King Jehoiachin from prison in 562 BC — yet it also relates the accession of Solomon , some 400 years earlier , as well as numerous events in between . |
| 26 | The fact that Gorbachev sent the old Stalinist Andrei Gromyko to perform the pinning on of the award must have been scant compensation for what Ceauşescu probably saw as a badge of his growing servitude to Moscow . |
| 27 | My watch must have been gradually slowing to a stop all day . |
| 28 | For some reason , the watch must have been doubled by his hated enemy Curtis . |
| 29 | Their watch must have been asleep ! ’ |
| 30 | Each clone must have been grown for at least 18 months at Kew before being distributed ; during this period , the plants are regularly inspected for disease and insects . |