Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] must have [verb] " in BNC.

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1	And that to him seems to be the answer to a problem which at sometime or another must have exercised most of use , and which he explains in the pamphlet which accompanies the display ; ‘ The art gallery , that supposed refuge and den of tranquility , I find a troubled place .
2	When he looked at the tremendous penalty borne by the aircraft in regard to the armour plating carried , the first thing to go was a huge ½″ thick slab that could have graced Fort Knox , but which protected the W/Op and the cabin crew , and that must have weighed several hundred pounds .
3	Somehow I could n't see it — they did n't have as much money as the Americans for one thing , and that must have inhibited them considerably .
4	Some of these centres clearly had separate names at one time and some must have had their own churches .
5	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 .
6	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 .
7	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 .
8	Twenty birds have been brought in and more must have died .
9	He had always thought he had no illusions about the artificiality of people 's reactions to him , but some must have taken root unaware .
10	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 .

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