Example sentences of "[conj] must have [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He jumped up from the chair he was sitting on and knocked something on to the floor , something that must have been on the arm . |
| 2 | A magazine rack overflowed with rolled newspapers : they had obviously arrived by post , but many were unopened , as though Reid had n't had time to catch up with news that must have been at least a month old . |
| 3 | This transhumance to distant resources is often thought of only in connection with more primitive and foreign communities , but it was certainly common in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times and must have been in earlier periods as well ( Figs. 11 , 59 and 93 ) . |
| 4 | So far , I have discussed the hunting economy purely as an immediate-return one , and such indeed it is in central Australia and must have been in the case of the first hunters . |
| 5 | Aaron 's mother , Lesley , 26 , said : ‘ He was very calm and must have been in great pain . |
| 6 | It was tucked into a corner of Bulak and must have been near the river , for once Owen caught a glimpse of ship masts at the end of a street . |