Example sentences of "must [verb] [been] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter in those decades must have been dull or impenetrable to all but the dwindling band of initiates . |
| 2 | We must have been poor or deliberately austere , but I was not told … |
| 3 | This lady must have been psychic or something , because in no time at all she was asking if I could enlarge necks on jumpers that other people had made too small to go over the head . |
| 4 | The Minister must have been asleep or doing something else when I raised my final point about the article in the education press in Scotland about the middle of last year . |
| 5 | It was not until she saw the colour of the light — deep warm gold — that she realised how long she must have been asleep and looked at her watch . |
| 6 | Hips and elbows must have been X-rayed and have received excellent results , but further more , all dogs must participate in the Swedish mental test . |
| 7 | The noise must have been awful but it was sweet music to my ears . |
| 8 | In the beginning , one feels , Lear must have been relieved and excited to find someone with as equally compelling an interest in birds as himself . |
| 9 | What types of boats were used is hard to conceive , but they must have been small and of shallow draught . |
| 10 | A spokesman said : ‘ Someone must have been stunned and be on a massive spending spree at the moment . |
| 11 | The presence of contemporary amphibians , such as the labyrinthodonts , shows that temperatures must have been moderate and water bodies present year-round , as migration would not have been an option . |
| 12 | Now I have considerable respect for the House of Commons ' Environment Committee but I think on this occasion they must have been tired and emotional when they wrote that . |
| 13 | so something erm I mean it , it just seems strange to me that , you know , something which has exist existed for thousands of years , you know , he 's suddenly sort of pooh-poohing so to speak , erm and I mean obviously the fact that there was a revolution twenty years later or whatever erm me means that something must have been wrong but erm you know i it 's strange how he 's suddenly criticizing and how the criticism has n't come before , how nothing 's happened before , how this seems an opportune moment for it to happen . |
| 14 | His eyes looked so unhappy that she could hardly bear it , but before she could say anything more he had plunged on : ‘ It must have been obvious and I 'm sorry for that too . |
| 15 | The structure of the databases in terms of input and output formats must have been identical or similar but this did not seem to be sufficiently argued , instead the plaintiff concentrated on an argument that the structure of the two programs must have been similar . |
| 16 | They must have been amazed and resentful that Pyke wanted to listen to me , of all people , someone who was barely an actor . |
| 17 | It must have been sweet and juicy — things might have turned out very different if it was sour . |
| 18 | Quite apart from the major wetlands , every valley bottom below a certain contour line must have been soggy and at times impassable . |
| 19 | They must have been sick and tired of my harping about gay rights , but by the time I had decided to move to London in order to set up home with the man of my dreams , my workmates organized a leaving party which was a touching celebration of the relationship between Keith and myself . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As the sun could never shine into the houses at any time of the day they must have been cold and damp . |
| 22 | Their end must have been harsh and violent but here was tranquility and pleasantness . |
| 23 | In summer it must have been bright and baking , but in wet autumn slate-grey sky lay like another box against its repeating panes , in which lines of little round lights were reflected , like Tinkerbell 's fairylights in her Never-Never-Land . |
| 24 | The public man who earned for himself the title ‘ Apostle of Pembrokeshire ’ must have been tenacious and fearless , like most of the Methodist revivalists . |
| 25 | I guess I must have been frightened but it all happened so quickly . |
| 26 | He must have been charming and amenable to have earned the approval of the secretaries of state . |