Example sentences of "[noun] must have be " 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 | Stark though the contrast must have been , Sir Monty explains the transfer from the closeted laboratory life to the public glare of big business with simple logic : |
| 3 | The myth of Osiris must have been told and retold to eager audiences over many centuries and in many different ways . |
| 4 | According to Carrick 's admittedly biassed complaint , the anonymous correspondent must have been an ambitious junior officer , for ‘ there is no body of Men so full of plot and envy as the Excise ’ . |
| 5 | Edwin must have been struck by the contrast each time he climbed the stairs . |
| 6 | This is because the profit function before the change must have been horizontal at the optimum , so a small change in the optimum price will make only a marginal difference to the firms ' profits . |
| 7 | In the early stages of cold-welding the planets must have been very similar in appearance , with massive outer gassy atmospheres . |
| 8 | ( Surely the birds must have been singing ? |
| 9 | The Ring of Scotland for his part undertook to pay the Ring of England £20,000 over three years in three instalments , a concession which Mortimer and Isabella must have been especially anxious to procure in view of their financial difficulties , and which Bruce hoped perhaps would sweeten the agreement for the English . |
| 10 | That patience must have been well-schooled here , and I would need lots of it myself if I was to follow her tracks from card to cryptic card through all the boxes . |
| 11 | Quick , as her dead sister must have been . |
| 12 | Agnes said the words to herself , her mind telling her that this was the end of June and her sister must have been carrying this dreadful secret since … when ? |
| 13 | She was only twenty when she was saddled with me , yet she never made me feel I was a drag , and heaven knows a kid sister must have been at times . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Because one of the most important qualities a driver must have is concentration . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I 'm forty-eight this year , me mum must have been in there nearly fifty year . |
| 18 | We were walk walking to erm the , down the high street and a plane went over , and erm , I think mum must have been saying to her about Aunty Jill being on holiday , and she went , ah , there 's Aunty Jill in the plane going to the city . |
| 19 | Theo 's fears that his brother was on a self-destructive course must have been at least partly eased by this letter . |
| 20 | However , " consistency " does not mean that the normal course must have been followed on the occasion in question , otherwise it would be impossible to argue course of dealing in the case where it is most relevant . |
| 21 | Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here , and we 're feeling the after-effects . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The noise must have been awful but it was sweet music to my ears . |
| 24 | Importance of contacts : Sir Patrick is quite happy with the thought that one of BP 's intentions in inviting him to join its board must have been to gain access to his little black book . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The wave must have been fifteen feet high . |
| 27 | Outside Cabinet Leon Brittan argued in a speech that the Government must have the right to look at new ideas , although I suspect that both Leon and Geoffrey Howe must have been appalled at the way the issue had been handled . |
| 28 | Ben must have been wide-eyed . |
| 29 | The initial resemblance of the ancestral stick insect to a stick must have been very remote . |
| 30 | Tolkien must have been thinking of Njorthr the sea-god and Skathi , daughter of the mountain-giant , in Snorri Sturluson 's Prose Edda . |