Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I think that , too , must have been part of an identity check , particularly as she repeated it again at the end . " |
| 32 | As emerged later from the television news , he had been visiting the front near al-Amarah , during what must have been part of the offensive named by Tehran as Muharram al-Haram . |
| 33 | So the golden apple which Hercules first brought back or gathered , from Hesperia must have been grain ; and the Gallic Hercules with links of this gold , that issue from his mouth , chains men by the ears : something which will later be discovered as a myth concerning the fields . |
| 34 | There must have been interference with performance of a contract |
| 35 | ‘ That must have been luck . ’ |
| 36 | The wind-chill temperature that night must have been way below the — -25°C ( — -13°F ) of the air temperature . |
| 37 | ROS : ( At edge of stage ) It must have been thunder . |
| 38 | Must have been quarter of an hour at least . |
| 39 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 40 | At times in the past there must have been tenderness between the members of this family ; the old lady had conceived and given birth to two children , nursed them and watched them grow into adult life . |
| 41 | I think that must have been G.P. 's doing . |
| 42 | ‘ It must have been spring . |
| 43 | It must have been noon , the time for the Angelus , and the bells of the cathedral clanging fit to break when I first caught sight of the fellow . |
| 44 | Some were growing beards and going bald which may not seem like drastic changes , but in the women there must have been side effects from changing your course of pills . |
| 45 | Badgers have got a name for being vicious creatures , but Teka has taken to people so well Maggie thinks she must have been hand reared from birth . |
| 46 | They , they we they had some guns on the castle and they were , I suppose there must have been enemy planes over . |
| 47 | He must have been fishing . |
| 48 | The decision was not costly for India — Marsh was bowled shortly afterwards — but most onlookers were convinced that Boon , when 1 , must have been lbw to Kapil Dev . |
| 49 | His flight engineer must have been mine was . |
| 50 | Saturday night must have been pandemonium with everybody needing their turn in the washtub . |
| 51 | it always starts but I feel there must have been fuel evaporation . |
| 52 | Like Southern Baptists of Tennessee , many Northern Irish Presbyterians believe that the wine enjoyed by Jesus and His disciples must have been grape juice , since Christians do not drink alcohol . |
| 53 | I must have been spot on his wavelength for I never left the quiet room after one of his healings without a sense , almost of VROOOOM ! |
| 54 | It must have been pressure . |
| 55 | ‘ There must have been blood on their clothes or something . ’ |
| 56 | It must have been murder for our mum . ’ |
| 57 | In his early days , he must have been hell to tie down . |
| 58 | In winter that walk back home must have been hell : sleet , rain , snow and ice blowing across the moss , wet clothes clinging to chilled skin and ahead and behind a long line of miners ' lanterns " bobbing like glowworms in the dark " . |
| 59 | It must have been hell for you . |
| 60 | During interviews he denied all knowledge of how the fire started but investigators said he must have been awarethat Bailey had confessed to his wife . |