Example sentences of "[noun] must [adv] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Times must still have been hard down Whittox Lane , though nearly all its inhabitants seem to have been employed in some way or another — most of them in the clothing trade , alongside Mr. Middleditch , the Badcox Lane Baptist minister , and Charles Dyer , 23 , a coal miner . |
| 2 | The ‘ stuttering notes must surely have been the result of the hammers bouncing . |
| 3 | The club dealt with the matter commendably but men like Murray must inwardly have been dismayed . |
| 4 | The effect of these operations must surely have been to shorten the war . |
| 5 | But what is important here is that , just as present-day language states are normally heterogeneous , so historical language states must also have been heterogeneous in similar ways ; hence , unilinear historical descriptions of single varieties ( such as ‘ standard ’ English ) can not be adequate descriptions of the history of a language . |
| 6 | Sedimentation must therefore have been fast enough to bury the tree and solidify before the tree had time to rot . |
| 7 | Ensuring the water supply for the towns during the dry Cretan summers must always have been a problem . |
| 8 | These cases must therefore have been regarded as distinguishable , presumably on the ground that Slater 's case did not involve any refusal to perform a service unless an unlawful payment was made . |
| 9 | In its final version , the SAS jeep must surely have been the most cost-effective fighting vehicle ever developed . |
| 10 | Religion must certainly have been at the forefront of his mind when , shooting the sharks , he twice looked death directly in the face . |
| 11 | In June 1989 the government refused to grant the fundamentalist Islamic Nahdah movement ( Mouvement de la renaissance ) legal recognition as a political party , on the grounds that by law founders and leaders of parties must not have been convicted of offences warranting more than three months ' imprisonment or six months ' suspended sentence ; 15 Nahdah leaders , although at liberty , still had current convictions dating from September 1987 ( see p. 36633 ) . |
| 12 | Modern scholars , conscious of the large issues involved in this struggle , have generally found this intrusion of the local and material interests of the church of Canterbury at a critical moment incomprehensible , and having their eyes fixed on the historically more important matters of investiture and homage , they have supposed that Anselm 's eyes must also have been similarly directed . |
| 13 | The media type must previously have been defined using option 9.5.0 — Update Media Types . |
| 14 | It is clear that the skin of each pillow must originally have been fairly flexible , since the base of each pillow characteristically sags into the gap between the ones below it . |
| 15 | Certain matters must however have been put in hand for on 18 August Sir William wrote requesting one of ‘ Mr Plenty 's designed lifeboats of 20 feet length ’ , and the Committee gave approval on 25 August . |
| 16 | It is very evidently a thorough piece of work ; the judgements seem well justified , and the whole exercise must surely have been a labour of love . |
| 17 | Up to ten non-overlapping paper ranges can be defined , however once defined , paper ranges can not be reduced or removed , A paper range may be extended , however the identifiers introduced into the extended range must not have been previously allocated as magnetic SPRs . |
| 18 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option but you must be the creator of the SPR and the SPR must not have been submitted . |
| 19 | Offa must certainly have been concerned from the earliest years of his reign to secure Mercian control of Middle Saxon territory ( CS 201 : S 106 ) and London . |
| 20 | He wrote a letter to his friend and former pupil Benedetto Castelli in which he discussed the Bible , especially the passage that stated that Joshua had commanded the Sun to stand still , a fact that would have proved that the Sun must previously have been moving , as Aristotle and Ptolemy had said . |
| 21 | Besides Irish Mail and her stable mate Montalban we were delighted to welcome back a regular visitor in Peter Pan , the immaculate Wren Class Kerr Stuart of Graham Morris , while the show stopper must surely have been Chaloner , the vertical-boilered locomotive by De Winton from Leighton Buzzard Railway . |
| 22 | Green must also have been helped by the growing availability of good water colour paints as only towards the end of the 18th century could amateurs easily obtain made up colours . |
| 23 | Wulfstan quickly changed his tune once Cnut was king , but in 1017 memories of the destructive wars of the previous three decades must still have been very fresh , among churchmen as well as their lay brethren . |
| 24 | In Indiana , Michigan and Nevada , a petition for separation or divorce must also have been filed . |
| 25 | Churchmen must always have been aware of family loyalties , and when these became involved in politics there may often have been a strong temptation to give active support . |
| 26 | That 4th place must still have been very satisfying for Robin Williams who has now completed his transition from international slalom C2 paddler to international marathon K2 . |
| 27 | In order to enter the Temple , one must be pure ; in order to be pure , the boundaries of one 's own body must not have been transgressed with anything impure . |
| 28 | It seems likely , therefore , that transport must always have been a limiting factor on trade . |
| 29 | It was , she knew , wholly irrational ; her common-sense kept reminding her that Eddie must already have been closely questioned by the police . |
| 30 | You must have LIFESPAN Marketing privilege to create an Issue , and the Product must already have been registered ( using option 5.1.3 ) and the Client must already have been created ( using option 5.2.1 ) . |