Example sentences of "[noun pl] must [vb infin] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Limited supplies of fruit and vegetables must have been available , while an abundance of natural fruits and nuts could have been gathered in season , for either home consumption or for sale in the local market . |
| 2 | ‘ And the police cars must have been OK . ’ |
| 3 | Hillsborough fans must have been surprised and delighted at the no-nonsense way their manager told Manchester United to get lost as they attempted to sign David Hirst . |
| 4 | For Eleanor the contrast between her first and second husbands must have been immense . |
| 5 | As to apparatus , saws were evidently effective enough to cut nephrite into the relatively thin sheets from which many archaic jades were made , and bow-drills must have been available from the beginning . |
| 6 | Many readers must have been shocked , and therefore some delighted , by my first description of legal pragmatism in Chapter 3 . |
| 7 | He never could grasp the logic that to see Trevor it was obvious to the teacher that his own eyes must have been open . ’ |
| 8 | Certainly , numerous repetitions must have been essential in order to accommodate all the action described in the livret . |
| 9 | At the time when rent levels were falling , some less profitable land also went out of cultivation ( although the extent of this is hard to measure ) , so it is clear that the fall in rents must have been due to a shortage of potential tenants rather than to a greater supply of land , which might have resulted from the clearance of forest or the reclamation of fenland . |
| 10 | Ileana Cotrubas is not of that ilk , and many of her devotees must have been shocked when it was disclosed last weekend that her Covent Garden recital with Geoffrey Parsons on Thursday evening was to be her farewell British appearance . |
| 11 | Third Class golfers must have been few and far between as my ticket example is only number 16 ! |
| 12 | The overall effect of , for example , a group of elaborately dressed and bejewelled priestesses conducting a rite with carved and gilded cult objects against a background of inlaid furniture , brightly painted pillars and multi-coloured frescoes must have been one of dazzling opulence . |
| 13 | According to a correspondent of The Graphic , these 19th-century visitors must have been little different from today's-instead of gasping at the 70-kilometre vista spread before them , their first reaction on arrival at the top was to write commemorative postcards . |
| 14 | The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter in those decades must have been dull or impenetrable to all but the dwindling band of initiates . |
| 15 | For such a remarkable achievement the close co-operation of many generations of patient observers must have been necessary . |
| 16 | All the cooking would be done by slaves , and the kitchens must have been difficult to keep clean and mice and cockroaches a familiar sight . |
| 17 | Alida stepped from the surgery door into sudden sunlight , and beneath the contempt and the anger was a seed of relief , of new hope , of freedom , for the instrument did not lie , the sounds must have been clear , she had no heart disease , no weakness , no need to accept the fact of death . |
| 18 | We could only surmise that alternative passages must have been worse . |
| 19 | Harold and his men rendezvoused at Caldbec Hill on 13 October : it was probably a tactical mistake to choose such a southerly site when the North Downs must have been easier to defend . |
| 20 | By Friday , after four days of being enthused at , confused , intrigued and occasionally feeling rather excited , the 800 delegates must have been glad to think of one computerised future that was just different rather than scary . |
| 21 | If Mains ' was not graven with deep frown-lines before that tour , those furrows must have been permanent afterwards . |
| 22 | Even the chickens must have been ashamed of those parts of their bodies when they were alive . |
| 23 | Again we are faced with having to read between the lines , but the allusions must have been clear to most of Bukharin 's contemporaries . |
| 24 | For golfers , wearing the dress of the day , — tailored tweed jackets and trousers , leather boots , and carrying well-made bags of up to 30 heavy-weight clubs ( according to former 1920's caddy Charles Robins ) — the prospects of coping with certain of Henley 's holes must have been daunting without a caddie . |
| 25 | In most of the windows the curtains were partly drawn so that the rooms must have been dark , but the people probably lived in the back . |
| 26 | At the outset the gross margin on spares must have been slender indeed , since Mendoros aimed to put his own business on the map by deeply undercutting any competition . |
| 27 | The increasing stocking density evident in Powys over the last 3 decades also explains the broadleaved woodland regeneration problem and clarifies why such woods are now often grazed to billiard table-like turf when in the more distant past grazing levels must have been low enough to allow regeneration . |
| 28 | Ernst Haeckel ( who described some of the Challenger specimens ) argued that Hensen 's sampling techniques must have been faulty , but further studies gradually confirmed his results . |
| 29 | All of the Friedmann solutions have the feature that at some time in the past ( between ten and twenty thousand million years ago ) the distance between neighboring galaxies must have been zero . |
| 30 | Despite the fact that practitioners must have been aware of the low level of legal representation in these courts the Law Society , in its evidence to the Royal Commission , explained the establishment of duty solicitor schemes in terms of the publication of these research findings . |