Example sentences of "must have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to this the picture must have been painted about 1588 , with which the style and the age of the sitter agree . |
| 2 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 3 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 4 | So there must have been something in it to hold my attention for so long . |
| 5 | The illustrator Cecil Aldin developed a romantic Dickensian view of the coaching inn in the 1920 , which must have been influential in ensuring that ‘ Brewers ’ Georgian ’ was a favoured style . |
| 6 | There must have been a push . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Well , if it was intended as a distraction , then that must have been the moment when he poisoned his wife . |
| 8 | If not during a period , then adequate contraceptive measures must have been taken since the last period , such as the pill , or sheath , or cap with spermicide , used on every occasion . |
| 9 | ‘ There was really no need — I realised I had a sweet and cheeses , you must have been starving . ’ |
| 10 | You must have been heartbroken . ’ |
| 11 | This fool butterfly must have been a chrysallis — there are a million tortoiseshells pirouetting on the purple flowers all the warm months — a chrysallis left from last August . |
| 12 | ‘ He must have been terrified . ’ |
| 13 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 14 | But by then he had taken refuge in the church , and the service must have been little more than a conversation between him and old MacDiarmid , because not another soul had dared to run the gauntlet and go inside when the clock struck three . |
| 15 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 16 | It must have been lucky to escape the sickles , he mused , as he watched its clumsy struggling across the cut stalks . |
| 17 | But someone must have been slipping amongst them like a stoat , noting , memorizing , carrying word stealthily to the Duke of Atholl . |
| 18 | We must have been poor or deliberately austere , but I was not told … |
| 19 | There must have been several dozen possible suggestions for an essay from that paper — political , industrial , military ( the Korean war was still ongoing ) , in sport or arts , etc. etc . |
| 20 | There must have been a leak . |
| 21 | Must have been two o'clock in the morning . |
| 22 | His tie was muddy green with flowers which once must have been yellow . |
| 23 | There must have been many an occasion when agents , in particular , must have wished to see the back of him . |
| 24 | You must have been receiving or entitled to income support or supplementary benefit for a continuous period of 26 weeks ( but one break of 14 days or less will not matter ) . |
| 25 | Choreographers must have been dancers themselves if they are to understand and feel the natural abilities of the body and to allow fur the influence of the techniques in which they have been trained . |
| 26 | A hook solved the initial problem , then a long , unprotected traverse ( great fun seconding ! ) led to more blank wall and what must have been some truly desperate leading . |
| 27 | There must have been text books around at one time but I can not even identify any titles let alone suppliers . |
| 28 | Even the most myopic Teuton must have been able to see that the politely inquisitive Englishman being entrusted with these confidences had to be an Intelligence man . |
| 29 | At the very minimum they must have been made on the basis of a police guarantee that matters would be manipulated so that courts would not impose additional punishment for the illusory offences . |
| 30 | Although there was a tacit assumption among the Belgian authorities that the attack must have been anti-Semitic in nature , no one could speculate as to its source . |