Example sentences of "[noun] must have be " in BNC.
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| 31 | The first fourteen hours must have been the worst of the journey as I was not able to sleep , whatever position I sat in . |
| 32 | Now I understand er that you know we are providing public service here and we have got allow for public access but the cost of the council of having all its officers outside of this building for over er two hours must have been absolutely horrendous and I would have thought this would be an area where improving security ought to be a high priority so what are you going to do about it ? |
| 33 | Now , if that were right , that is , here 's our bodily bit here , that 's what individuates them , right , Socrates is shorter than Plato , Plato is a bit taller than Socrates , Socrates has funny bulgy eyes , erm Plato must have been rather a normal looking person , a variety of things that differentiate them , but they 're not different in respect of being human beings . |
| 34 | These six Sonatas give evidence of an outstanding creative personality , and a ferociously energetic temperament ( they sound ferociously difficult as well : her keyboard technique must have been staggering ) . |
| 35 | Something of the kind must have been operative when Galileo first introduced the telescope as an instrument for exploring the heavens . |
| 36 | ‘ Your message re the krytron that provoked Hawkins 's ire must have been badly handled . ’ |
| 37 | However , Honderich himself throws up difficulties with regard to his third point , in that Conservatism must have been at least partly responsible for the ‘ decent ’ society he found when he arrived in Britain thirty years ago . |
| 38 | This election must have been one of the last in Scotland where open bribery took place . |
| 39 | Anselm found this retreat difficult to accept ; after his own loyalty to the terms of the papal decree , the pope 's vacillation and suggestion of over-reaction on Anselm 's part must have been hard to swallow . |
| 40 | The book of Kings for instance must have been written after the last event it mentions — the release of King Jehoiachin from prison in 562 BC — yet it also relates the accession of Solomon , some 400 years earlier , as well as numerous events in between . |
| 41 | I must say that I feel Charles Greenwich must have been joking in his reply . |
| 42 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |
| 43 | The fact that Gorbachev sent the old Stalinist Andrei Gromyko to perform the pinning on of the award must have been scant compensation for what Ceauşescu probably saw as a badge of his growing servitude to Moscow . |
| 44 | She felt sure that plans must have been well advanced for the action they intended to take , and she thought that councillors should have been asked to approve the use of emergency guidelines at that time . |
| 45 | Memphis , Tennessee must have been a lively place for the city ‘ s policemen in the early 1970s . |
| 46 | My watch must have been gradually slowing to a stop all day . |
| 47 | For some reason , the watch must have been doubled by his hated enemy Curtis . |
| 48 | Their watch must have been asleep ! ’ |
| 49 | Each clone must have been grown for at least 18 months at Kew before being distributed ; during this period , the plants are regularly inspected for disease and insects . |
| 50 | ‘ That means Goering must have been in on it ? |
| 51 | Bradbury must have been a little miffed that the Sunday Press named the other linesman as the replacement . |
| 52 | When William Burnes died at Lochlea in 1784 , John Tennant lent a horse to help to convey his body to Alloway for burial in the grounds of Kirk Alloway and memories of Alloway and the ruined kirk must have been recalled by both families when they met on that day . |
| 53 | After this double success hope must have been high that a solution in the case of the general quintic would soon be forthcoming . |
| 54 | Many issues and proposals must have been discussed : we know of one proposal , that of Cardinal Robert of Courson for compulsory poor relief , which was rejected . |
| 55 | Susan 's activities must have been well known to the police . ’ |
| 56 | The extent of these economic activities must have been constrained by the modes of transport available . |
| 57 | Her enthusiasm must have been convincing , however , as Bill threw back his head and laughed . |
| 58 | My contemporary interest in the case is in the argument that Parliament could not sensibly have intended to frame its enactment in these terms simply for the purpose of dealing with the rare and improbable case of a crooked solicitor and , therefore , the provision must have been intended to have some wider operation . |
| 59 | The winner must have been beyond price . |
| 60 | Morpurgo must have been wearing the same tie the day she came to Tyler 's Hard . |