Example sentences of "must [verb] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if , if you accept the ten percent owning the eighty percent , there must 've been enough but the poor are not getting it . |
| 2 | She must have been upstairs because almost as if in answer to him we heard her heavy tread on the stairs . |
| 3 | He says he 's never seen anything like it ; he reckons some of the stuff must have been here since before the First World War . |
| 4 | It must have been just before Boswell picked her up . |
| 5 | It must have been just before I left home in November . |
| 6 | It must have been just after I left , thought Joan . |
| 7 | And if you phoned me early in the year it must have been just after we got the V W. |
| 8 | She must have been there as Christopher Peasgood became increasingly blue . |
| 9 | However , there is not much evidence of this judicial activity in the landscape before the Middle Ages , although it must have been there and some places were obviously more significant than others in its instigation . |
| 10 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 11 | It must have been then that the two coaches came to light because we moved house in 1925 and quite certainly the coaches were never at the old house but appeared very early on at the new one . |
| 12 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 13 | It seems to me now that I must have been more than a little simple , because I received a telephone call from the home the very next day . |
| 14 | ‘ But there must have been more than that , surely ? ’ |
| 15 | In these four years the dinar value of these deposits multiplied by a factor of nearly 10 , and by the end of 1987 this factor must have been more than 20 . |
| 16 | There must have been more than twenty farms , plus the school , the chapel and the Strathmore Arms . |
| 17 | The smallest insect alive during the Age of Dinosaurs must have been more than a million times smaller than Brontosaurus . |
| 18 | And those who could n't afford a half-crown fine , but would rather wait until nightfall to sweep or cause to be swept their bit of pavement , must have been more than grateful that the Trustees would also kindly provide ‘ Lamp Irons or Lamp Posts to be put or affixed into , upon , or against the Walls or Pallisadoes of any of the Houses , Tenements , or Buildings within the said Town , . |
| 19 | Robert Hasted must have been more than usually proud , then , of his daughter Elizabeth 's second son , Robert Titford . |
| 20 | Benjamin must have been more than a little interested by all the information this sheet of paper contained , principally because he had scarcely known his own father , who had died before he was two years old . |
| 21 | The chance to escape from the daily drudgery in the pits must have been more than attractive . |
| 22 | In the end , there must have been more than twenty small windows all around where Little Billy was sitting , and from each window these amazing little faces were peering out . |
| 23 | There must have been more than twenty curriers Nowadays there are no tanneries and there are only three curriers So the answer to your question is yes , many , many more . |
| 24 | All that may be stated with any certainty is that his knowledge of the craft must have been more than merely adequate and that he was a good businessman . |
| 25 | As I was saying : they dig up that and also Francis 's moment of passion when he made himself a father — which must have been more than twenty years ago ! |
| 26 | It is sometimes said that the offender must have been deliberately and flagrantly flouting the law . |
| 27 | Must change be all or nothing ? |