Example sentences of "the [noun sg] must have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | My contemporary interest in the case is in the argument that Parliament could not sensibly have intended to frame its enactment in these terms simply for the purpose of dealing with the rare and improbable case of a crooked solicitor and , therefore , the provision must have been intended to have some wider operation . |
| 2 | This is because the profit function before the change must have been horizontal at the optimum , so a small change in the optimum price will make only a marginal difference to the firms ' profits . |
| 3 | The fact that Gorbachev sent the old Stalinist Andrei Gromyko to perform the pinning on of the award must have been scant compensation for what Ceauşescu probably saw as a badge of his growing servitude to Moscow . |
| 4 | The winner must have been beyond price . |
| 5 | For some reason , the watch must have been doubled by his hated enemy Curtis . |
| 6 | The address on his letter is that of a hall of residence , so the description must have been exaggerated , but it conveys his exasperation . |
| 7 | Stark though the contrast must have been , Sir Monty explains the transfer from the closeted laboratory life to the public glare of big business with simple logic : |
| 8 | The wave must have been fifteen feet high . |
| 9 | The noise must have been awful but it was sweet music to my ears . |
| 10 | Something of the kind must have been operative when Galileo first introduced the telescope as an instrument for exploring the heavens . |
| 11 | As a consequence , feudal contracts in the full sense of the term must have been more important for supplying castle-guard than for campaigning ( though it would be pushing the argument too far to deny them any significance in the field ) . |
| 12 | Section 11(1) of the UCTA states that the test for reasonableness is that the term must have been " a reasonable and fair one … having regard to the circumstances which were , or ought reasonably to have been , known to or in the contemplation of the parties when the contract was made " . |
| 13 | The undergrowth must have been a haven for vipers and the three men kept strictly to the path . |
| 14 | Any orbital eccentricity produced by the collapse must have been subsequently removed by tidal forces . |
| 15 | The collapse must have been much commented on in the Edinburgh print and publishing trade , but the local press was discreet . |
| 16 | All those lands have water , either acknowledged as lakes , or in winter pools throughout the poor , snipe-grass farmland ; how lovely the light must have been to his eyes . |
| 17 | All of a sudden there 's the snow and the ice and when we pulled into the village they got this fl flat roof some of the buildings and the snow must have been about ten twelve feet deep on top of the roofs where they cut a path through through to get to the village . |
| 18 | Cadfael stepped back to measure again the angle at which the body lay , and the few paces back along the path where the assailant must have been hidden . |
| 19 | The murder must have been a severe shock to her and she would no doubt be deeply concerned over its effect on her husband ; she should have gone to see her yesterday , or at least telephoned . |
| 20 | The third requirement is that the defendant 's conduct in committing the crime must have been objectively dangerous . |
| 21 | The car must have been exceptionally sturdy for it often had me driving and pedalling like mad , with one friend perched on the bonnet and another on the back . |
| 22 | He estimated that the car must have been doing at least 18 miles per hour on the curve where it overturned . |
| 23 | Whether he had been there by accident or whether he had spotted me arriving and slunk into position I shall never know , but from his point of view the result must have been eminently satisfactory because it was certainly the worst fright I have ever had . |
| 24 | The photograph must have been taken from about twelve feet in front of her , where I surmise Summerchild 's desk was . |
| 25 | All the superintendent must have are reasonable grounds for believing that an offence is a serious arrestable one ; this safeguard , therefore , is obviated where the police think one of these vague and undefined consequences might occur . |
| 26 | ‘ We ca n't be absolutely sure of the sequence of events but the victim was hit from behind and fell against the door leading into the garage , so the killer must have been in the house . |
| 27 | The killer must have been kneeling there , pistol at the ready , and as Francis emerged he or she had fired at a range of a few inches . |
| 28 | Although the carpet 's original owner is still unknown , the recipient must have been highly considered , since all the Savonnerie workshops were monopolised by the King during this time for making carpets for the Louvre . |
| 29 | Its size , elaborate smithing and the fact that it was made of silver meant that the offering must have been exceedingly valuable . |
| 30 | The folding of a protein is a highly cooperative process ; in the case of R2 the energy cost of the clustering of carboxyl side chains in the interior of the protein must have been accounted for by other means . |