Example sentences of "must often have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madame had you see known him in his alcoholic days , when indeed such calm must often have been the prelude to him lurching into an argument , or falling heavily from his stool . |
| 2 | As for our own species , the oldest evidence , going back to possibly about 35,000 BC , reveals that the dead were not only equipped with weapons , tools , and ornaments but also with food , which must often have been in short supply among the living . |
| 3 | A flight of external stairs allowed him easy access to the bookroom , and there he must often have been found when the ‘ noise of Women & children ’ , which made study impossible , had driven him once again from Lime Street : it is probable that most of the poems associated with the cottage were at least partly written in the bookroom . |
| 4 | The carrs of low-lying land must often have been water-logged before the complex system of drainage ditches was dug . |
| 5 | There is no evidence that at any of these houses Smythson was involved on the same day-to-day basis as at Longleat and Wollaton ; his contribution must often have been limited to the provision of a set of plans and elevations , which were liable to alteration at the whim of the patron and executive craftsmen . |
| 6 | Only later did I appreciate what sacrifices my mother made to give it to us , and how lonely she must often have been when we were all away at school ; after our father 's death she became almost possessively devoted to us . |
| 7 | In the early twelfth century it was two shillings ; a century earlier it must often have been considerably more . |