Example sentences of "must have been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | ‘ It must 've been a pretty powerful bloke who did that ; father was no weakling . ’ |
| 3 | It must 've been a belt that 's come right through central London and completely missed the suburbs , or North London anyway suburbs |
| 4 | There must 've been a little bit of snow |
| 5 | It must 've been the pipe . |
| 6 | " Funny , I did n't think I 'd hit him , but I suppose I must have — must 've been the second shot . |
| 7 | There must have been a push . ’ |
| 8 | This fool butterfly must have been a chrysallis — there are a million tortoiseshells pirouetting on the purple flowers all the warm months — a chrysallis left from last August . |
| 9 | There must have been a leak . |
| 10 | The entire kitchen ( there must have been a brigade of 50 where one would expect more like 12 ) , belongs to some turn-of-the-century grand Parisian establishment , but strangely there was only one washer-upper . |
| 11 | It must have been a male tree for there was no sign of the drooping clusters of yellow fruit that female trees would now be bearing . |
| 12 | Member Johnny Day of Bexhill , envies the other member who after complaining to the Diary that his service must have been a dream , was subsequently contacted by old colleagues . |
| 13 | There must have been a draught because I wrapped my coat around my knees . |
| 14 | I started right in by saying there must have been a bit of a misunderstanding . |
| 15 | There must have been a time before Fenna , just as there must have been a time before words , but Maggie can not not conceive of either . |
| 16 | There must have been a time before Fenna , just as there must have been a time before words , but Maggie can not not conceive of either . |
| 17 | But company executives accept that there must have been a leak as they put together a financing package to back their bid for Dixons . |
| 18 | THE ARUNDELLS of Cornwall must have been a very sophisticated family , for it is peculiar to find such a fancy façade of this date in such a distant corner of the land . |
| 19 | The Reverend Richard Rowland Ward , who built the hall in 1821 , must have been a desperately romantic character . |
| 20 | Inglewood must have been a perfect foil for the grand civic buildings of Liverpool , with its open timber balcony on the south side overlooking terraced and formal gardens laid out in the ‘ Old English ’ style . |
| 21 | ‘ Angela must have been a very attractive girl , ’ he suggested , cautiously . |
| 22 | In such moments he was not himself , for age had quelled the turbulent spirit , and tamed what must have been a fierce temper indeed … . |
| 23 | It was certainly the case that in the first centuries the example of Jesus must have been a tremendous model for living and for dying . |
| 24 | From outside , the church looked very old , and deserted , and I began to wonder why I had come ; and I must have been a little late , because in the perfect stillness within , the members of the congregation already knelt — like statues , some caught in a swath of rainbow light where the rising sun shone through a stained-glass window , splashing the bowed heads and bent shoulders with crimson , royal blue , emerald and gold . |
| 25 | It must have been a shock , her turning up out of the blue like that . |
| 26 | Must have been a wrong number or summat . |
| 27 | There must have been a veritable orchard flourishing in her wake , which could account for the sudden urge to build an orangery among the nobbery . |
| 28 | In each case there must have been a scientist employed . |
| 29 | The film 's unexpected success must have been a relief after her long maternity break , proof that she could come back : there are now talks of buddy pic with Madonna . |
| 30 | Weed control must have been a major problem for a one pass cultivation system before the development of herbicides , and the extra weight of the rotor unit and the engine must have made the plough difficult to handle at the headlands . |