Example sentences of "[noun] must [verb] been [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The noise must have been awful but it was sweet music to my ears . |
| 5 | The wave must have been fifteen feet high . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Ben must have been wide-eyed . |
| 8 | Something of the kind must have been operative when Galileo first introduced the telescope as an instrument for exploring the heavens . |
| 9 | This election must have been one of the last in Scotland where open bribery took place . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Their watch must have been asleep ! ’ |
| 13 | After this double success hope must have been high that a solution in the case of the general quintic would soon be forthcoming . |
| 14 | Her enthusiasm must have been convincing , however , as Bill threw back his head and laughed . |
| 15 | However , the collection of this variety must have been considerable : Collinson noted on the back of a print of the Magnolia grandiflora flower in his copy of Catesby 's Natural History of Carolina , that there were twenty-nine of these trees at Goodwood in 1759 , two of them twenty feet high . |
| 16 | In so far as Derek thought at all about who had murdered Maurice Abberley — or why — he supposed a crazed hitch-hiker must have been responsible . |
| 17 | ‘ And the police cars must have been OK . ’ |
| 18 | A. Raistrick ( in Two Centuries of Industrial Welfare ) considers that the period of the Royal Mines Copper — forerunner of the famed London Lead Co. — was from 1692 to 1704 , but the actual conception must have been earlier than this , as the following shows . |
| 19 | Hillsborough fans must have been surprised and delighted at the no-nonsense way their manager told Manchester United to get lost as they attempted to sign David Hirst . |
| 20 | For example , we have the form of expression ‘ when I said ‘ Napoleon was crowned in 1804 ’ I meant the man who won the battle of Austerlitz' and we are inclined to interpret the use of the past tense ‘ meant ’ as meaning that the idea of Napoleon having won the battle of Austerlitz must have been present in the speaker 's mind when he said that Napoleon was crowned in 1804 . |
| 21 | It made her feel that he did n't mind everyone knowing she was his girlfriend , and he was really sweet to her in bed , told her she had lovely hair and said she must never , ever cut it , it was so beautiful , and then he began to talk about Therese , saying how cruel it was that he had carried the company all these years and now , just because she was the Direktor 's favourite — he snorted at this point and said he really did believe Therese must have been old Franz 's mistress years ago in Vienna — he was being treated like a pariah , no consideration , everyone being rude and unkind to him , Therese allowed to do just what she liked on the stage even though she 'd been no-one before she came to Hochhauser . |
| 22 | We forget that early experiences of grief must have been communal , and still are in many societies . |
| 23 | Resentment of Wolsey 's experiment must have been due largely to its extension to the relatively ( though far from inarticulate ) poor of the burden normally confined to the rich . |
| 24 | To register to vote for example , a union citizen must have been resident in Great Britain on the qualifying date of the tenth of October or fifteenth of September for Northern Ireland in exactly the same way as British or other commonwealth citizens and citizens of other member states who wish to be candidates of the elections for the European parliament must conform to the same nomination procedures as candidates have hitherto . |
| 25 | For Eleanor the contrast between her first and second husbands must have been immense . |
| 26 | His research must have been immense . |
| 27 | Hill must have been typical of many mid-Victorian medics who reorientated their social and political allegiances as a result of a shift in class and professional status . |
| 28 | As to apparatus , saws were evidently effective enough to cut nephrite into the relatively thin sheets from which many archaic jades were made , and bow-drills must have been available from the beginning . |
| 29 | She looked back over the recently written unsatisfactory pages of her book , and there was no doubt that her mind must have been tired . |
| 30 | ‘ Having him for a brother-in-law must have been embarrassing at times . ’ |