Example sentences of "[noun pl] must have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Limited supplies of fruit and vegetables must have been available , while an abundance of natural fruits and nuts could have been gathered in season , for either home consumption or for sale in the local market . |
| 2 | The magnificent late twelfth-century font in the great church of San Frediano at Lucca shows Pharaoh drowning in the Red Sea ; and he and his troops are dressed up much as Frederick and his knights must have appeared to the Lucchese of the 1160s . |
| 3 | Open-field farming , with few or no hedges must have produced a very bare landscape , totally lacking in visual interest which the great modern prairie farms of East Anglia have actually re-created in the last few decades . |
| 4 | The intention of the section is clear : the shareholders must have power to remove the board . |
| 5 | Shareholders must have a fortnight to consider an offer , so that the final offer must come before the 46th day . |
| 6 | In the early stages of cold-welding the planets must have been very similar in appearance , with massive outer gassy atmospheres . |
| 7 | If this were so then these other clubs must have breathed a sigh of relief when City 's books were not produced . |
| 8 | ( Surely the birds must have been singing ? |
| 9 | Fully two minutes must have passed before he plucked the pipe from his mouth and said : ‘ I do n't know what the document contains . |
| 10 | The order of the list of land birds is almost exactly the same as appears in Darwin 's 1839 Journal of the Voyage of the Beagle , so these notes must have been used by Darwin as the basis for his subsequent publication . |
| 11 | To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars . |
| 12 | Habitable rooms other than kitchens , bathrooms and toilets must have : |
| 13 | I 've only been on since I read that thing in the square ball , and I suppose loads must have done the same as me and jumped on the bandwagon . |
| 14 | Further , it is only for the kingdom of the Burgundians that there is evidence for anything like an all-embracing comital structure , and while most , if not all , Merovingian civitates must have had their comites , or in the north , their graphiones , in all probability local administration could vary according to regional tradition and to the will of an individual king , whose main concern was to ensure the loyalty of and to realize the revenues from his civitates . |
| 15 | Indeed , the fact that serious crime was often punished by confiscation of all the malefactor 's possessions must have been a sore temptation , and doubtless tended to prejudice kings towards verdicts of guilty . |
| 16 | Surely an animal of this bulk , it was argued , must be partly supported by water , and their relatively inconsequential teeth must have been adapted for chewing on the kind of soft , luxuriant vegetation that flourishes in and around swamps . |
| 17 | The burning burning need I have ( all prisoners must have ) is for other people . |
| 18 | ‘ Russians must have an honest rouble ’ |
| 19 | What banking services there were , had been developed on the continent by Italians , and were not widely available outside the capital cities like London , so provincial merchants must have employed other forms of credit . |
| 20 | It was also pointed out that all Dutch ovens must have adequate floatation . |
| 21 | However some employers must have moved more quickly , since the Scotsman for the same day carried the following report : The masters say they have engaged workmen from England who have proved equal to the occasion , while for the past few weeks an experiment was made with educated females at the case . |
| 22 | The first fourteen hours must have been the worst of the journey as I was not able to sleep , whatever position I sat in . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | I appreciate that we cyclists must have caused the operation quite a bit of inconvenience , particularly the stops to get us on and off ; the problems of finding suitable lay-bys etc ; the time taken ; and the dirty work for the drivers . |
| 25 | On the other hand the south Italian potters of Caies must have found customers for their cups which through their imagery reminded the drinkers of the impious Celts in action : were they too a " memento mori " or were they an invitation to rejoice in a world where barbarians are sure to be defeated ? |
| 26 | Today 's Himalayan climbers must have immense strength and vitality , must acclimatise very carefully , should be fully skilled and experienced , must be alert to danger yet hardened enough not to be critically frightened ( and mountains are very frightening places ) by any unexpected trauma ; be patient during storms , determined in attack and wise in retreat ; be a skilful diplomat and a team player ; be compassionate but sometimes have a touch of selfishness . |
| 27 | One or two fingers must have gone . |
| 28 | The French and Russian revolutions had made an enormous contribution in their time to human progress , but they lived today in a different world in which universal human values must have priority . |
| 29 | It is difficult now to imagine the splendour which the vast incrustation of ornaments must have presented to the eye by the time the church was complete . |
| 30 | In order to do this health authorities must have comprehensive information about the existing use of health care . |