Example sentences of "[subord] they must have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern tackle has given today 's anglers a great advantage and simple things such as float control are now much easier than they must have been in the silk line and gut era . |
| 2 | Found hidden in a cist at Ballynaughton were 74 coins , the latest of which was an Elizabeth issue before 1561 , so they must have been deposited in the early part of her reign . |
| 3 | But the only difference that I see was that they pushed their ploughs there , so they must have been smaller than the ones we use . |
| 4 | Unfortunately the bastards are 13 points minus 2 games clear , so they must have been playing well . |
| 5 | Once they must have been dead level , but not for long It was Student Cross that had really swept him out of her reach . |
| 6 | How would you get them into the boat , because they must have been heavy ? |
| 7 | While they must have been closely linked , it would help if we could distinguish between the circulation of such goods and their deposition in graves , for it is the latter which is actually being studied . |
| 8 | It was true that the Simonova 's earthing crew had been slow to react — the more so since they must have been required to perform a similar task on both of the platforms which had been docked and inspected previously . |
| 9 | However , there are two exceptions : the Magellanic Clouds , so named because they were recorded by the Portuguese explorer Magellan in his voyage round the world — though they must have been noticed earlier , because they are very bright — and the Large Cloud is visible with the naked eye even in moonlight . |
| 10 | There was a Bede , Natura Rerum , in which the blues seemed still as intense as they must have been when first painted . |
| 11 | But to be fair to Green it was from his burning wish for people to admire the scenery , not from a desire to spoil it , that he made these suggestions , which certainly are not so far fetched in the 20th century as they must have been then . |
| 12 | The same thing is seen in a more hesitant form on another boy ( fig. 71 ) , and here the very slight tilt and turn of the head are part of a change in the pose of the whole figure , as they must have been in the fair-haired boy also . |
| 13 | Stephen liked to stand and watch , to imagine the druidical forms as they must have been , going about their ritual , and to wait in silence and stillness for the sun to perform his precise function . |