Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] must [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The repeated readings must have been in the nature of a penance , which , because of his awareness of his own prejudices , was deliberately self-imposed . |
| 2 | Mr Justice Judge told Mrs Salmon , of Park Gate , Hants : ‘ I ca n't imagine what the last 10 years must have been like for you waiting for this to be sorted out . ’ |
| 3 | I begin to get some idea of what the Roman games must 've been like . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Effectively this means that the previous dealings must have been on the same terms and a consistent procedure must have been followed . |
| 6 | Those Belgians must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time , and they probably saw something they should n't have seen , so someone shut them up for good . |
| 7 | To visit them is to gain an insight into what many of our own wetlands must have been like . |
| 8 | When they finally moved out their successors found the floor covered with six layers of linoleum — the bottom ones must have been in position for many a long year ! |
| 9 | By all accounts , not many years ago the Western Isles must have been among the most depressed of the peripheral areas of Europe . |
| 10 | The bursting upon the scene of an organized working class carrying out industrial action on a substantial level , or not just working-class suffrage but , for the first time , mass political parties , and especially working-class parties must have been at least partly experienced as an eruption of contingency and chaos into a world of order . |
| 11 | It was brought home to Charles for the first time how much of a strain the last weeks must have been for a girl of her age . |
| 12 | None of these activities had blotted out the picture of what Horatia 's last moments must have been like . |