Example sentences of "must have be [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 Taken together the expansion of the middle-class suburbs was from about 28 , inhabitants in 1871 to over three-quarters of a million ( 808,000 ) just after World War I. The other large suburbs , of mixed population , though with working-class majorities , experienced similar trajectories : Lichtenberg grew from 4,700 in 1871 to 145,000 in 1919 , Rixdorf/ Neukolln from 8,145 to 262,000 , and Spandau from 20,500 to 95,500.10 The total population growth of just these large above-mentioned mainly working-class districts was of the order of 1.3 million from 1871 to World War I , a phenomenon which taken together with the revolutionary uprising of 1918 must have been frightening to Berlin 's middle classes in a manner hardly imaginable today .
2 What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ?
3 I must have been chatting to him for about 20 minutes and he told me he 'd needed an urgent lift .
4 From these statements it is possible to deduce that Hizir Bey must have been appointed to the Sultan medrese during the first sultanate of Mehmed II ( 848–50/1444–6 ) and that Molla Arab can not therefore have begun his study with him , much less become anyone 's before the summer of 848/1444 .
5 Where an answer is required to be filed of which notice must have been given to the respondent ( Ord 9 , r 18(5) ) , the answer shall be filed within 14 days inclusive of the day of service , unless another period is prescribed , and shall be accompanied by sufficient copies for all other parties , including other respondents separately represented .
6 No one has ever spoken of the child who must have been born to Dierdriu , and who had given birth to himself and Grainne .
7 He was probably then resident at the London convent and studying arts , but must have been sent to Oxford before 1249 ( Mon .
8 Another man who lived in modest circumstances was Thomas Harington of Ridlington , a non-landowner with only £7 in goods ; yet he must have been related to the squire , John Harington the younger , whose servant he was .
9 Those two had a photo to watch for you coming off the plane — which means you must have been followed to Helsinki Airport .
10 The Rhodesia Metals case was referred to in the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 and it follows that when Lord Bridge used the words ‘ place where the property was let ’ he must have been referring to the place where the property let was situated and not to the place or places where the lease happened to have been signed .
11 must have been referring to R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(3) rather than to the Act of 1960 when he said that ‘ in cases of contempt , however , these powers will be used only in exceptional cases ’ because section 13 is solely concerned with appeals in cases of contempt .
12 Brian Wilson 's analysis of the general election result ( ‘ The Union strikes back ’ , 24 April ) must have been cheered to the echo by Ian Lang and the rest of the Tory rump now running Scotland .
13 You must have been listening to the B.B.C. or something . ’
14 And it gets in your hair and it gets in your clothes , she must have been listening to the television .
15 He referred to the Man City game which he must have been listening to on Manc Radio .
16 Dot thought that he must have been moved to a different hospital .
17 Many of the specimen trees which are still in the park were almost certainly planted by Webb at the time , and the elegant arched orangery in the garden must have been built to his designs .
18 Doubtless it included rent from Garsington as well as from the Whitchurch glebe , which must have been let to farm seeing that his own agricultural interests were limited to a couple of dozen sheep and some poultry .
19 But to fill a material role such as that of a steelworker or a lawyer , an individual must have been subjected to numerous other ISAs .
20 Childeric must have been subjected to many of the influences which were to impinge on his son .
21 It is evident from the massive character of the great border dyke which Asser in his Life of Alfred in the late ninth century attributes to Offa ( Life of King Alfred , ch. 14 ) , running from Sedbury Cliffs near Chepstow to Treuddyn , linking up now with Wat 's Dyke which ends at Basingwerk in north Wales , that considerable energy and manpower must have been devoted to the delineation , construction and maintenance of this frontier line .
22 I THINK you must have been going to small moneylenders to be quoted interest rates of this sort .
23 All work must have been submitted to the Royal Academy to be eligible for this exhibition .
24 In order to qualify for these national insurance benefits , you must have been married to your husband on the date he died .
25 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 .
26 However , as it was not on the list submitted to Angell and Pownall for examination , his design was probably never tested for its practicality or compliance with the conditions , and must have been brought to the lay judges ' attention after the assessors had completed their work .
27 But after the sack of Athens by Sulla and the destruction of the Seleucid state by Pompey the taste for the quiet contemplation of world history which Posidonius encouraged must have been confined to provincial corners like Rhodes itself , or Agyrium , the Sicilian birthplace of Diodorus .
28 A design which , on this occasion , must have been suggested to him by his client or-by other craftsmen .
29 When the mare basins were excavated the fragmentary material beneath them must have been compressed to a higher density than before .
30 ‘ We agreed she must have been talking to someone … ’
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