Example sentences of "must [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must 've been fifteen foot at least up in the air teetering on a top branch . |
| 2 | We moved to Somerset and I saw nothing of Matt for — I do n't know — it must 've been sixteen years I suppose . |
| 3 | Christ , he must 've been good . ’ |
| 4 | now there , there must 've been one reason why you chose Friends Provident . |
| 5 | Must 've been four then was n't it ? |
| 6 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 7 | must 've been frightened , cos he 's never had |
| 8 | ‘ You must 've been surprised when I answered the door . ’ |
| 9 | morning , but it must 've been alright because er he was going off with David , I said you got tablets for him and she said yeah plenty of stuff for him , anyway , he seemed , he looked alright anyhow |
| 10 | ‘ You must 've been crazy ! ’ she told herself . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Norman must have been desperate to win after such a long absence from the winner 's circle , but that does n't account for his alarming collapse over the closing stretch in Canada . |
| 13 | If so , he must have been desperate . |
| 14 | My God , you must have been desperate , ’ I said . |
| 15 | I must have been desperate ! |
| 16 | ‘ Then it must have been inadvertent , in his case . ’ |
| 17 | For profitability appears to have fallen just as fast outside manufacturing , where the pressure of international competition must have been negligible . |
| 18 | It must have been dull touring around Britain after Broadway but she knew of no alternative . |
| 19 | The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter in those decades must have been dull or impenetrable to all but the dwindling band of initiates . |
| 20 | It must have been heartbreaking for people who had been through sensational experiences to have to recount them to politely tepid audiences and to discover that their stories conformed to an orthodox pattern . |
| 21 | Miller and his colleagues ( e.g. Miller and Springer 1973 ; Miller and Schachtman 1985 ) have shown that certain ‘ reminder ’ treatments are capable of restoring lost behaviour , thus demonstrating that the information necessary for the behaviour in question must have been present all along but was merely unavailable to the mechanisms responsible for controlling behaviour . |
| 22 | Above all , to Tolkien 's mind , there must have been present the problem of Beowulf . |
| 23 | For example , we have the form of expression ‘ when I said ‘ Napoleon was crowned in 1804 ’ I meant the man who won the battle of Austerlitz' and we are inclined to interpret the use of the past tense ‘ meant ’ as meaning that the idea of Napoleon having won the battle of Austerlitz must have been present in the speaker 's mind when he said that Napoleon was crowned in 1804 . |
| 24 | But just as Geertz 's textually absent wife must have been present in reality , contributing to Geertz encounter with the Balinese , so women are also present in Balinese society though they may be absent from cockfighting . |
| 25 | As these sexual fantasies and encounters had occurred from childhood , sexuality must have been present . |
| 26 | We must have been poor or deliberately austere , but I was not told … |
| 27 | In this study , sulphate reducing bacteria must have been absent , or their activities limited in the non-methanogenic samples tested , because it is highly unlikely that methanogenic bacteria will displace sulphate reducing bacteria for this mutual growth substrate given an adequate supply of electron acceptor ( sulphate ) . |
| 28 | She had hinted darkly that Wilson herself must be to blame , that she must have been weak , must not have written plain enough and as she had been instructed . |
| 29 | It must , it must have been absolute arm and a leg . |
| 30 | So he must have been convinced that there really was a lot more where that came from . |