Example sentences of "there must [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.

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1 now there , there must 've been one reason why you chose Friends Provident .
2 There must have been two or three thousand on the river banks and the water .
3 But there must have been other reactive effects which were more subtly marked than this and were concealed from the fieldworker .
4 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 …
5 There must have been other women , ’ Jenna began mournfully , but his lips silenced her at once and he kissed her possessively until she began to tremble all over again .
6 ‘ But there must have been other women during the past five years ? ’ she murmured anxiously .
7 Detectives say there must have been other people in the area around the time of this latest attack who could help their search .
8 There must have been other factors present to account for the size of deposits created by the credit multiplier effect described earlier .
9 Above all , to Tolkien 's mind , there must have been present the problem of Beowulf .
10 There must have been five hundred varieties .
11 There must have been five , maybe ten thousand of them here .
12 Held , allowing the appeal , the judge had referred to Cavendish ( 1961 ) 45 Cr.App.R. 374 in ruling that it was open to a jury to infer from all the circumstances that there must have been prior arrangement with the occupier for such a large quantity of burglary proceeds to arrive so quickly at the premises .
13 This and similar observations indicate that the polymer can occupy less volume when surrounded by benzene molecules and that there must have been unused space in the glassy matrix to allow this increase in packing efficiency to occur .
14 There must have been many an occasion when agents , in particular , must have wished to see the back of him .
15 Clive Lloyd is one of the best-loved cricketers ever to walk on to a field , but after the relentless domination of his four-man pace attack there must have been many people who permitted themselves a smile at the news .
16 Umpire Alley eventually warned Holding , but there must have been many Lancastrians who were sad to see Lloyd , on his home ground , do nothing about it .
17 Surely there must have been many others equally clinching .
18 There must have been many different ways for brachiopods to exploit their simple mode of life .
19 There must have been many daughters like Margaret White , who described in the 1590s how she stayed on living with her widowed father , ‘ guided him and his household , and was continually with him in his sickness until his death ’ .
20 Although only a few churches were listed in Domesday Book for Sussex , there must have been many more and the growth of towns and Wealden colonisation saw the establishment of a fixed parish system by the early thirteenth century .
21 Much of Sussex 's early medieval wealth was built on the close relationship between farming life and industry ; although many villages had specialists in each there must have been many with dual occupations , men able to shift from one to the other as the season or demand dictated .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Below the exemption line there must have been many small masters .
25 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 .
26 I can also acknowledge that there must have been many women like her , all over Glasgow ; that there were then in the early 1900s when she was marrying and becoming a mother ; that there were later .
27 When the Renault RSO1 1500 cc turbo-charged car failed on lap 17 of the 1977 British Grand Prix at Silverstone , there must have been many people who did not see a future for this power-booster , particularly as it was the turbo-charger that caused the car 's withdrawal from the race .
28 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 .
29 To sustain carnivores , there must have been many more herbivores ; but the idea that two of each kind were created somewhere and slowly spread and multiplied would not go with real population dynamics .
30 There may have been cases where the acquisition of the wrappers conferred no direct benefit on the Nestle Co. , but there must have been many cases where it did .
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