Example sentences of "which must [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also got very noisy , which must have been galling for Ron , standing out in the wind and rain supervising the keen members of his squad . |
| 2 | It shows San Carlo to have had a big nose and long ears , features which must have been real as they also appear in several portraits . |
| 3 | But the thing which must have been nearest to her heart , because she returned to it so often , was how as a child she had walked to church along the sands . |
| 4 | Although he lacked the control over the southern kingdoms which might have put him on Bede 's famous list of kings holding imperium in the south , he remained a formidable ruler , with the resources to endow the church lavishly and to raise the navy which must have been necessary for his invasion of Ireland . |
| 5 | The illustrator Cecil Aldin developed a romantic Dickensian view of the coaching inn in the 1920 , which must have been influential in ensuring that ‘ Brewers ’ Georgian ’ was a favoured style . |
| 6 | It would be possible , Roland thought , to identify the breakfast party , which must have been one of Crabb Robinson 's later efforts to provide stimulating conversation for the students of the new London University . |
| 7 | When we got on the plane , we appreciated the Chinese caution : it was a rather ancient Russian prop-driven machine , which must have been one of those the Russians bequeathed to the Chinese when they went home in the early 1960s , taking all their spare parts with them . |
| 8 | I vividly remember the occasion when a box had not been properly secured — when poor Katy opened the bathroom door she was greeted by a scene which must have been reminiscent of the Hitchcock film The Birds with thrushes and feathers flying everywhere ! |
| 9 | They dropped down into a chamber , the roof of which must have been seven or eight feet high , and where the air seemed quite fresh . |
| 10 | An itch of fascination at this utterly different , aberrant creature twisted within Lexandro , into rage — at the sly , inhuman intelligence which must have been responsible for the loss of those brave champions of Humanity who now lay lifeless in caskets . |
| 11 | It was a peculiar street because Street was on a higher level and at one time , the dam which must have been open , now the dam when I mention the dam , it 's the mill lead , but known to everybody in Galashiels as the dam . |
| 12 | They gave a face which must have been pretty , or at least childishly vulnerable , the vacuous look of an adult clown . |
| 13 | She had never been on a train before and the speed , which must have been twenty miles an hour , made her as excited as a child . |
| 14 | As far as we knew every previous expedition had ferried the sheep by dinghy , a tedious operation which must have been hard on both men and sheep , to say nothing of the dinghy . |
| 15 | RAF teams from Abingdon had the unenviable task of moving the RAF Museum 's XL318 by road to Hendon , the real cost of which must have been mind-boggling . |
| 16 | There were many types of seed plants evolving throughout the late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic periods which must have been excellent sources of food . |
| 17 | He still wore his expression of vacuous merriment , which must have been habitual rather than assumed in my honour . |
| 18 | There was eagerness and excitement in his voice at once , echoing the emotion which must have been obvious in Hornblower 's tone — Hornblower took notice of it , and as he buckled his waistband he reaffirmed his resolution to be more careful how he spoke , for he must regain his reputation as a silent hero . |
| 19 | ‘ Reckless ’ manslaughter is also an example of constructive liability ; even if Caldwell recklessness is justifiable as a standard , it is only an obvious risk of injury which must have been foreseeable . |