Example sentences of "must [verb] been [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Warshow was to argue quite rightly that there must have been much vicarious pleasure in the enjoyment of these films for audiences could watch gangsters break the law , use violence , take risks , and die but were free themselves to leave the theatre safely . |
| 2 | According to a correspondent of The Graphic , these 19th-century visitors must have been little different from today's-instead of gasping at the 70-kilometre vista spread before them , their first reaction on arrival at the top was to write commemorative postcards . |
| 3 | Among them must have been many new men pushing up from below . |
| 4 | Though the prestige of Aldfrith 's descent from the Uí Néill will not have been negligible , he was born out of wedlock and there must have been many legitimate sons of other Northumbrian lords who claimed descent from Ida . |
| 5 | Below the exemption line there must have been many small masters . |
| 6 | There must have been many different ways for brachiopods to exploit their simple mode of life . |
| 7 | There must have been many jealous eyes directed towards Russell who , owing to his association with the College of Arms , was able to attract a fair proportion of the up-market trade within London . |
| 8 | After all , there must have been many comfortable nursing homes in Sydney where her father , who had then been having difficulty in telling even night from day , would have received the sort of care and attention which he had needed . |
| 9 | There were no longer any grave differences of principle between him and the king , but there must have been many routine tasks after so long an absence , and these seem to have occupied the greater part of 1107 . |
| 10 | On the contrary , there must have been many fervent followers of Jesus who conformed to a similar pattern — teetering on the brink of shattering disillusion , then finding a new justification in Paul . |
| 11 | They must have been such wonderful beings , and now even the legacy of their environment was being rewritten by the humans , changed with every curved floor covered by a flat grille , every piece of art ripped from the walls and studied out of context , every subtle nuance of space filled with metal and plastic , neural net cabinets , stores , machinery , even people . |
| 12 | It must have been bloody huge |
| 13 | Must have been bloody moulded and everything . |
| 14 | ‘ Then it must have been two other people that have been kissing on our front porch for the last nine months . |
| 15 | But there must have been other reactive effects which were more subtly marked than this and were concealed from the fieldworker . |
| 16 | I now realised that there must have been other little gaps and vacancies about the house but , between the tablets and the total absence of any careless talk , I had wiped the whole unfortunate episode right out of my head … |
| 17 | ‘ It must have been those honeyed cakes , ’ she added hurriedly , and gestured to the Empress . |
| 18 | That must have been some key phrase to establish identity . |
| 19 | Well I do n't know that must have been some clever fella to do it did n't he ? |
| 20 | There must have been some great stars and some ecstatic moments in those cosy halls but there must also have been many second- and third-rate performers , constant recourse to stereotypes , excessive repetition , and buckets of sentimentality . |
| 21 | She too had heard rumours , the telephones from shop to shop must have been red hot , and she looked at Rose with speculation . |
| 22 | And it must have been cold bloody flat ! |
| 23 | Throughout our recent evolutionary history , particularly since the rise of a hunting way of life , there must have been extreme selective pressures in favour of our ability to co-operate as a group : organized food gathering and hunts are successful only if each member of the band knows his task and joins in with the activity of his fellows ; a good deal of restraint on natural impulses during the stalk and capture of the prey is likewise essential . |