Example sentences of "it must have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have reached thermodynamic equilibrium over the years , and represents the most stable state for this composition . |
| 2 | It must have felt lonely when a respected customer ( whose name was not exposed even to me ) dropped from under her coat the bag of flour she had been concealing there . |
| 3 | It must have felt solitary sometimes at night alone in that old house now in decline , undermanned , vulnerable . |
| 4 | ( c ) It must have become impracticable for the consumer to identify the actual producer ( s. 2(3) ( b ) ) . |
| 5 | It must have become clear to us by now that a committee of different subject specialists trading off time and contents with each other is an unwieldy and potentially dangerous body . |
| 6 | In the hope that deteriorating wartime conditions in Vietnam would spark insurrection , a liberation army of sorts was being formed on the border ; but when the attack went off at half-cock ( leaders executed or arrested and followers dispersed ) another threat to the French position was removed and it must have become clear that the only credible threat to French power lay in France itself , at least until the forces of nationalism were able to attract some effective outside sponsorship or else embed themselves in the people to the point where they became an organized national resistance . |
| 7 | Soon it must have become obvious to the story-tellers that such a huge land could no longer be fitted into the Mediterranean , and so it was resited beyond the Gates of Hercules . |
| 8 | It was trailing a chain , so it must have broken loose . |
| 9 | It must have made front-page news . |
| 10 | It must have looked bad last night for Bill to say anything . |
| 11 | After what he had told me , or thought he had told me , it must have seemed reasonable . |
| 12 | The Russian Government denied that it was supporting the ‘ Kursk clique ’ but , for Ukrainian opinion , it must have seemed inconceivable that this were true . |
| 13 | It must have seemed strange to have found herself keeping house for my grandfather and his daughters . |
| 14 | The south stand in particular looked like a midwinter Halifax v Northampton reserves match , and it must have seemed strange on tv . |
| 15 | It must have seemed clear to him at once that Tolkien was a man of literary genius , and this fact only brought home to him his own sense of failure as a writer . |
| 16 | It must have seemed clear to him that the Frankish advance could not be stopped by armed opposition , for he ceded to Charles all the territories gained across the Pyrenees . |
| 17 | With Palmerston in the key position and intimate with the defects of the old Foreign Office , it must have seemed likely that the rebuilding programme would be pursued with vigour . |
| 18 | This may sound bureaucratic and boring but without it there are bound to be anguishing problems of the kind : ‘ I handed in my work on time but it must have got lost in the pile ’ . |
| 19 | Afterwards , he could always claim that it was sent to an old or wrong address by mistake , or that it must have got lost in the post . |
| 20 | It must have taken supernatural greed |
| 21 | It must have had substantial embankments leading to it , for the nearby ground level is that of the line . |