Example sentences of "[adj] must have [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.

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1 That must have caused a flutter . ’
2 That must have cost a pretty penny , ’ Mickey Aronson declared , not really expecting to be told the price .
3 That must have cost a packet .
4 ‘ Whoever did that must have had the bodies of John and Angela in their possession , either dead or alive .
5 But then you would know about that — your business , that must have taken a fair amount of hard work . ’
6 A luxurious yacht like that must have carried an engineer — we can find that out easily enough — and it 's a fair guess that the engines would have been maintained in an immaculate condition .
7 ‘ And a pretty penny that must have set the good Canon back .
8 The English must have echoed the rejoicings of the people of Rouen when it was announced , in the early summer of 1444 , that a truce had been agreed between England and France , and that Henry VI was to marry Margaret of Anjou , a niece by marriage of Charles VII .
9 ‘ They are doing it for you and the children. : This must have saved a lot of misery , as she was really listened to .
10 This must have reinforced the terror of such places , as portrayed in Beowulf and the chronicles relating to St Guthlac .
11 Indirectly this must have represented a challenge to the influence of Aethelred of Mercia in the East Saxon region .
12 John Coles , Bryony Orme , and members of the Somerset Levels Project have estimated that this must have involved the exploitation of extensive woodland from which materials were taken out to be fitted into the track planks from the same tree occur in different parts of the track .
13 I was told , back in those days , that he had built a working steam model of the locomotive to go with the coaches , but this must have left the district some years earlier , as my father never saw it , and never met John Griffiths , though he knew of Ernest from about 1910 , having started his articles in that office .
14 It is said that when Christie moved into the new mill he took the machinery with him and this must have included the scribbler and carder. with the " Devondale " piercing machine , the slubbing Billy and spinning Jennys .
15 The number of kings who came to grief in the fifth century is staggeringly high , and this must have had a deterrent effect on kings who contemplated taking initiatives .
16 There had been a morning of heavy rain before the event and this must have reduced the expected numbers present and made it more subdued than it might otherwise have been .
17 Now that in England we pay an average of six copper pence per lemon , I think I would still find them almost worth the silver pennies which in z 533 must have represented a pretty large sum .
18 It was built before the war , and I have a Shanks loo , which makes me think that the British must have had a hand in building it .
19 Pangaea at the end of the Palaeozoic must have experienced a climate of extreme continentality , not only because of its coherence ( Valentine & Moores , 1972 ) but because of the high albedo of extensive low-latitude deserts ( Barron et al . ,
20 If there were anything to remove , he best of all must have had the chance to do it .
21 The fact that the subject matter was so dire must have posed a problem for the programmers .
22 This was followed by an interview between the President and Von Papen : and I can not help thinking that , during their conversation together , the former must have assured the latter that , so long as she could hold out against Allied demands , Turkey would abstain from hostile action towards Germany .
23 Finally , some part of the fall in the output-capital ratio in the United States after 1966 must have reflected the decreasing capacity utilization .
24 These last two must have felt the stirring of the soul at the sublime beauty which causes the peak experience , and because this sweetness came out of their own minds , theirs was the most intense emotion .
25 The following work carried out ( or directly and actively supervised ) : ( a ) either at least 60 personal injury instructions in the 5 years prior to the application or at least 36 personal injury instructions in the 3 years prior to the application — in either case , no more than half of the instructions should be in medical negligence cases ; ( b ) at least one personal injury case where the award or settlement was approved by the court because the plaintiff was under a disability , eg a child ; and ( c ) at least ten cases set down and ready for trial , of which at least two must have involved a dispute over liability .
26 And to be far away from home and in a situation where life had to be lived as if each day was your last must have intensified every sensation .
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