Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] must have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book of Kings for instance must have been written after the last event it mentions — the release of King Jehoiachin from prison in 562 BC — yet it also relates the accession of Solomon , some 400 years earlier , as well as numerous events in between . |
| 2 | The first accords qualified privilege unconditionally ; the second grants it subject to the condition that a reasonable right of reply must have been afforded to victims of privileged defamations . |
| 3 | We forget that early experiences of grief must have been communal , and still are in many societies . |
| 4 | What volcano of emotion must have been boiling inside that youngster under his teasing and laughing , under his occasionally expressionless face ? |
| 5 | The Scarman Report commented on the turnover of staff in the mail order department in 1976 : ‘ many of the immigrant workers did not stay for very long : the threat of dismissal must have been an anxiety for many in the workforce . |
| 6 | For police warrants , normal methods of investigation must have been tried and failed and there must have been good reason to believe that interception would result in a conviction . |
| 7 | Coming back , as always , to the Jurassic , one has only to compare the 30 ammonite zones represented in one foot of sediment in Sicily with the 15 000 feet representing a single zone in Oregon , to realise how startlingly different rates of deposition must have been in different places . |
| 8 | Adjusting to her style of leadership must have been a learning process for not only the maintenance man . |
| 9 | It is obvious that the remaining members of the Commission of Enquiry must have been shaken by the events in God 's Gift . |
| 10 | The forces of evil must have been working smoothly that day because it so happened that the spot he chose was the position within yards of the epicentre of terror that had frightened the railwaymen so many years earlier . |
| 11 | Getting them out of bed must have been a miracle . |
| 12 | any targets or standards of performance must have been previously agreed between employee and superior , or team colleagues , and be seen to be both sensible and reasonable |
| 13 | These massive objects sometimes weighed several pounds , and with the addition of padding must have been unbearably hot . |
| 14 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
| 15 | But at least one ingredient in the extraordinary reversal of expectation must have been the cumulative effect of seeing all those smug Labour front-bench faces oozing such complacency about their forthcoming victory in the weeks before the poll — Roy Hattersley , Robin Cook , Jack Cunningham , Bryan Gould . |
| 16 | The example of Cato must have been decisive . |
| 17 | People thought he was doing this deliberately , because people never really believe that the beautiful lack confidence ; looking back , I think that to start with Boy must have been frightened almost all of the time . |
| 18 | If artificial selection does change the average condition of the population , the trait under selection must have been heritable ; and the degree of response to artificial selection indicates the degree of heritability . |
| 19 | ‘ My poor wife 's attempt to scare her into flight must have been the final straw . |
| 20 | Miller and his colleagues ( e.g. Miller and Springer 1973 ; Miller and Schachtman 1985 ) have shown that certain ‘ reminder ’ treatments are capable of restoring lost behaviour , thus demonstrating that the information necessary for the behaviour in question must have been present all along but was merely unavailable to the mechanisms responsible for controlling behaviour . |
| 21 | The reason for excluding the Schutzkorps from repatriation must have been that , although it included a number of Soviet citizens who had joined during the war , a large majority of its members had lived outside Russia since the Civil War and had become passport holders of other countries , mainly Yugoslavia . |
| 22 | The son of a wealthy London merchant , Lethieullier was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries ; he knew both William and John Hunter , who in turn must have been aware of his collection of Egyptian antiquities , amongst which were some mummies brought back from Egypt to Aldersbrook by Lethieullier 's cousin , Colonel William Lethieullier . |
| 23 | At its height his income from land must have been at least £200 per annum . |
| 24 | Whatever had happened in space , I had reason to believe that the displacement in time must have been relatively slight . |
| 25 | For example , if you look up the word " wit " in a Concordance to Congreve , you will find all the places where the seventeenth-century dramatist Congreve used that word ; you can then work out what its particular meaning for Congreve must have been by studying how he uses it . |
| 26 | She too had heard rumours , the telephones from shop to shop must have been red hot , and she looked at Rose with speculation . |
| 27 | WHOEVER judged the inflatable sumo wrestling bout at half-time must have been from the WBO . |
| 28 | Obviously Wordsworth 's performance in his studies at school must have been outstanding for him to have started off at Cambridge with such a lead , and it is hardly surprising that in the college examination in 1787 he was placed in the first class . |
| 29 | These drastic reductions in population through disease must have been restored quickly ; otherwise they are difficult to reconcile with the overall growth in numbers of indigenous people mentioned above . |
| 30 | One of the most spectacular sights ever seen by man must have been the mile-high fiery cascade when a lava flow poured into the Grand Canyon in Arizona . |