Example sentences of "must [verb] be the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He must have been the tenant for , in 1812 , the mill had been bought by Peter Playne from the Wade family , in whose hands it had remained since around 1758 . |
| 32 | ‘ Ears of grain were called apples of gold , which must have been the first gold in the world while metallic gold was unknown … |
| 33 | This must have been the only time John ever had his work discussed in detail by a choreographer of Balanchine 's gifts and experience , and although Buckle described him as ‘ looking somewhat quelled ’ his nature was such as to profit from it . |
| 34 | As Webster goes on to point out , when study of the cuneiform records revealed that the Babylonian shabbatum ( full-moon day ) also fell on the fourteenth ( or fifteenth ) day of the month , we were presented with another survival of what must have been the primary meaning of the Hebrew term shabbath . |
| 35 | It would seem , therefore , that the Reverend R Fletcher must have been the pastor of the English Primitive congregation . |
| 36 | I must have been the greatest bore ever , and it 's a wonder that those I inflicted my views upon did n't rebel . |
| 37 | He must have been the talk of the town . |
| 38 | Duncan must have been the mountain man of the day , for the previous year he had been engaged by the Revd C. Lessingham Smith to take him from Sligachan to Loch Coruisk , climbing in Hata Corrie on the way . |
| 39 | I think it must have been the end of a beautiful friendship . |
| 40 | Coming on duty , on what must have been the third morning for our ‘ C ’ cases I met Sister Hancock coming unsteadily down from the theatre . |
| 41 | It must have been the last straw to a tired Lancaster crew to have home in sight , and then to be attacked by a fighter . |
| 42 | I suppose there must have been the usual quota of cold , wet and windy days but I ca n't remember them . |
| 43 | The Backs always attracted me , even in a winter fog , and we eventually found ourselves in King 's College Chapel for what I think must have been the very first of the annual carol concerts . |
| 44 | On top of which , I think Binbrook must have been the coldest RAF Station in England . |
| 45 | Such , one imagines , must have been the calibre of planning behind A history of nature ( Channel 4 , 16 January ) , another in the stunningly amateurish Crucible series on sciences in society . |
| 46 | ‘ I must have been the thorn between the roses , ’ he said , with some satisfaction . |
| 47 | He must have been the best-known and most celebrated inhabitant of Baldersdale — excepting Hannah Hauxwell , of course — within living memory . |
| 48 | ‘ Her name is Robyn Doreian , ’ Must have been the spelling that clinched it . |
| 49 | The tower must have been the last sight of land for hundreds of drowning mariners in peace and war . |
| 50 | Even more off-putting , though , must have been the permanent doubt about what kind of narrative such a history would be : a celebration or an obituary ? |
| 51 | We reckoned it must have been the ‘ reason for our visit ’ on our visa — to visit the Crown Prince Abdullah Abdul Aziz . |
| 52 | It must have been the boarding-school she had been to which determined her voice , affected , sharp , shrill . |
| 53 | Amazingly this must have been the final straw for it , because its top hinge broke and it swivelled on the bottom one , narrowly missing Miss Louise before it crashed to the floor . |
| 54 | When she opened the door , they stopped talking , so she must have been the subject . |
| 55 | It was during the summer months of 1968 that my father first began taking me to Walton junction , Liverpool to see what must have been the very last of the steam trains thunder past at 7 o'clock . |
| 56 | Then , on an impulse , I retraced my steps following the run of the old water washout pipes until I found myself in the remains of what must have been the old boilerhouse . |
| 57 | There followed what must have been the longest two hours of my life . |
| 58 | It … it must have been the heat . |
| 59 | ‘ It must have been the owner . |
| 60 | But dad Craig said : ‘ It must have been the same bug . ’ |