Example sentences of "must [verb] [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must 've been a belt that 's come right through central London and completely missed the suburbs , or North London anyway suburbs |
| 2 | I 'm coming up a hill near some kind of huge church or cathedral — there must 've been a service or a concert going on because people are pouring out — one of them 's singing a high trill and her boyfriend 's cross : ‘ Please , Miranda ! |
| 3 | A task has been allocated to the human operator and what he must do is a function of the needs of the hardware . |
| 4 | What we must achieve is a balance . |
| 5 | ‘ I pleaded with the officials that the test result must have been a mistake . ’ |
| 6 | My sister thought it must have been a mistake , and kept the pound notes in case he came back for them . |
| 7 | This means that each adult Korean both male and female , must have been a member of eight organisations — which one must recognise as absurd . |
| 8 | To be eligible to attend a meeting of the General Committee referred to in paragraphs ( e ) or ( h ) , a person must have been a member of this Constituency Labour Party for at least twelve months prior to the date of the relevant meeting and have attended at least one previous meeting of the General Committee during the same period . |
| 9 | its inflation must be no more than 1.5 per cent than the average of the lowest three inflation rates in the EMS ; 2. its long-term interest rates must be no more than 2 per cent than the average of the lowest three member countries ' rates ; 3. it must have been a member of the narrow band of fluctuation for at least two years , without a realignment ; 4. its budget deficit must be no larger than 3 per cent of GDP ; 5. its National Debt must not exceed 60 per cent of GDP . |
| 10 | ‘ All we do know , ’ he concluded , ‘ is that the assassin must have been a member of the community at the Tower who knew Sir Ralph had changed his bed chamber , and he or she either committed the murder or hired a professional assassin to do it for them . ’ |
| 11 | No doubt it appealed to his vanity and his ambition to be regarded as more than a mere fiddler ; but after a harrowing year it must have been a decision he bitterly regretted . |
| 12 | But it made me think you must have been a friend of Hugh 's . |
| 13 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 14 | Although one should not read too much into this , given that the families in the survey had at least one child in primary ( board ) school by definition , and therefore the oldest were sometimes the only ones of an age to be working , it can safely be said that the openings for girls in the printing trade must have been a godsend for low-income families with several children . |
| 15 | Stella 's illness must have been a godsend to you . ’ |
| 16 | In the morning , Jack related his experience to his wife who listened sympathetically but reassured him that it must have been a nightmare . |
| 17 | There must have been a push . ’ |
| 18 | A clash of personalities must have been a factor , one feels . |
| 19 | Such conditions are all too rare today ( works bought for public institutions like the Tate disappear from view for decades together ) , and it must have been a factor in the decision of some artists to give in the first place . |
| 20 | Careful historians , incidentally , warn us that it could not be a fox , but must have been a jackal . |
| 21 | In any case , it must have been a question of degree . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought it must have been a road block because one said to the other : ‘ Go for it ’ and they speeded up . |
| 23 | Each monastic order established a religious foundation in the town resulting in a proliferation of churches until as Samuel Sharp says : ‘ Stamford … must have been a kind of monastic metropolis . ’ |
| 24 | In 1923 the LNER was born , and the great variety of locomotives and coaching stock must have been a paradise for the enthusiast . |
| 25 | ‘ Then it must have been a ghost , ’ said Betty , and clearly wished she had n't . |
| 26 | Very little research has been carried out on the functions of domestic pottery ; there must have been a variety of functions which , glibly , can be placed under the headings of cooking and storage , but behind such distinctions there is little clarity . |
| 27 | ‘ You must have been a success , ’ Aunt Emily said . |
| 28 | At least one long passage must have been a spiral , because they had walked far enough round a uniform bend to accomplish two circles . |
| 29 | The next customer was a middle-aged man who must have been a regular , for he began by saying , ‘ Do n't often see you on this side , miss . ’ |
| 30 | Well he star I think probably the first He must have been a joiner for a wee while before he was you were just asked to do this the same I suppose as any other job any other joiner job |