Example sentences of "must [verb] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Flowing water , evident from younger sediments of three billion years ago , shows that the temperature must have been above freezing , indicating the Sun was not as cool as some scientists suggest . |
2 | Any academic learning at Stamford , therefore , must have been of limited scope and only the rebel students and masters between 1333 and 1335 ever issued degrees . |
3 | So Wilson 's work of ‘ Cader Idris ’ , even if only seen by Green as a print , must have been of seminal interest . |
4 | Gould 's arrangements for his own children were meticulously considered , which must have been of some consolation to his wife , who had dutifully resolved to accompany her husband to Australia . |
5 | He had been Town Sergeant from 1846 , and a formidable character he must have been to any offender . |
6 | Welcome as the Cabinet 's new policy must have been to some Ministers in the Lords , such as Lord Pakenham , then Minister of Civil Aviation and an abolitionist to his fingertips , voting for suspension can not have been an agreeable experience for the unyieldingly retentionist Lord Chancellor , Jowitt . |
7 | He started to give her expert directions and it was plain that he must have been to this particular establishment before . |
8 | It must have been with some degree of cautiousness and a heightened sense of responsibility that Gould once more stocked up on shot , caps , and powder on his way back through Launceston for the journey home . |
9 | There is a display also of various types of mountain refuge or cabin , from which you can judge how extremely uncomfortable it must have been for those invited by Count Russell to share his quarters on his favourite mountain of Vignemale , for the so-called ‘ Russell ’ is quite the most Spartan of shelters , little more than a hollow scooped out under an overhanging rock . |
10 | ‘ Conceive what I must have been at fourteen , ’ he reminisced to James Gillman , his first biographer . |
11 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
12 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
13 | She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat . |
14 | It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now . |
15 | This very large accession takes up where the first deposit stopped , and covers the years 1861 to 1920 , in addition to some titles and papers of earlier date which must have been at some time extracted from their proper place . |
16 | He must have been on one or other of them every night , in weather much like this , all through that last summer of his life . |
17 | I must I must have been I must have been on good form that day |
18 | He had visited the place in 1937 and it must have been on this occasion that he took photographs of the village and of St Michael 's Church there ( where later his ashes were to be interred ) . |
19 | What with all those houses , plus the school , he must have been worth close to a million pounds , give or take the odd thousand . |
20 | It also gives the information that Rolle was " accustomed to show himself very familiar to recluses , and to those who needed spiritual consolation " and it must have been during this period of his life that he met his disciple Margaret de Kirkeby . |
21 | Considering how many times he must have been through this script , there are a lot of ‘ ums ’ and ‘ you knows ’ and pauses , but eventually we get there . |
22 | Here the choice must have been between good lakes and less good lakes . |
23 | In this case we can calculate that the average output per obverse die must have been between 23,000 and 47,000 . |
24 | Unfortunately , the burial period must have been between 1400 and 1000 B.C. , a time far distant from the legendary date of the battle between Coilus and Fergus . |
25 | The first sexual casual pick-up I had was also in South Wales ; this must have been about 1965–6 when I was nineteen or twenty . |
26 | It is difficult to visualize now , but it must have been within this pavilion that the young Roshanara consulted her spies as she reclined on carpets beside the gently bubbling irrigation runnels . |
27 | ‘ Well , it must have been after that he had his accident . ’ |
28 | There was a time , no doubt — it must have been before 1948 , when the United Kingdom itself abolished allegiance as the basis of citizenship — when the pretence of daughter monarchies around the globe was harmless and even arguably beneficial . |
29 | No it must have been before nineteen eighty . |
30 | Something like that , it must have been like that . |