Example sentences of "must [verb] been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said . |
| 2 | He remembered a swamp draining into a lagoon some distance to the right of the highway — the road must have been raised for him to have seen that distance . |
| 3 | This issue must have been raised before and BSM would presumably be gratified to see the situation successfully resolved , once and for all . |
| 4 | Since Childebert I is said to have acknowledged Gundovald 's claim to Merovingian blood , the issue must have been raised before 558 , perhaps long before . |
| 5 | The Brougham milestone dates to AD 258–68 , so that the civitas must have been constituted by then . |
| 6 | But a further complicating factor is that Watling Street , in its latest phases , points directly to the medieval East Gate , strongly suggesting that here also lay the later Roman gate , most probably on a different site to that belonging to the early defences ; if this is so , then the ditch must have been bridged at the gate . |
| 7 | ‘ There are also bruises on her thigh , which must have been caused by her being stamped on or kicked as she struggled . ’ |
| 8 | At the time I thought little more about it , but later I realized that it must have been caused by some powerful pain-killing drug . |
| 9 | Must have been caused by the explosion that brought down the plane or by the impact of striking the water . ’ |
| 10 | The product package must exist ( and must have been created as a product using option 1.1.1 — Create Package/Product ) . |
| 11 | There is no mention of Stamford in these letters and the tale must have been created by Hardyng to fit in with his earlier mythology . |
| 12 | To be eligible to be purchased by the Bank of England the bills must have an underlying short-term trade finance role , as evidenced by a clause on the face of the bill , and must have been accepted by an ‘ eligible ’ bank . |
| 13 | Before being able to close off an SPR , it must have been accepted by a LIFESPAN user ( to prevent it being passed on indefinitely if no one is willing to take responsibility for the work ) . |
| 14 | Before being able to close off an SPR , it must have been accepted by a LIFESPAN user ( to prevent it being passed on indefinitely if no one is willing to take responsibility for the work ) . |
| 15 | But the alliance with Athens must have been renewed before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War when Thessalians fought on the Athenian side again ( Thuc. ii.22 ) . |
| 16 | The ugly weal across his throat told its own story of why he was unable to say what had happened , although the gamekeeper believed he must have been swept from his horse by the low-lying branch of a tree . |
| 17 | They are distributed along the shorelines in innumerable enclaves ( sensu Crisp , 1 978 ) * many of which must have been isolated for long enough ( since the sea level rose to its present height after the retreat of the last ice sheet ) for them to have evolved local forms to suit the particular selective influences of their habitats . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | Had the German attack been mounted on 12 February , as planned , the French , caught as it were in transit — for though now aware of the impending peril they were only beginning to bring up reinforcements — must have been overcome in a total and horrible manner . |
| 20 | She must have been warned of the dangers . |
| 21 | It must have been sheltered by a submarine ridge , for there were no currents to disturb the fine sediments on the floor or to bring in oxygenated water from nearer the surface . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Poking his head out from the cab , to get a little cooling draught , he noticed that they were about to enter a long deep cutting and marvelled at the way the cutting must have been cut through almost solid rock . |
| 24 | A groan went up that Charlie reckoned must have been heard in the middle of Edinburgh . |
| 25 | Springfield 's backup must have been summoned by Larsen , either that or they had decided to move in themselves . |
| 26 | The seduction scene afterwards must have been done with an eye for the main chance , before the opportunity disappeared … |
| 27 | The act must have been done at the promisors ’ request : the parties must have understood that the act was to be remunerated either by a payment or the conferment of some other benefit : and payment , or the conferment of a benefit , must have been legally enforceable had it been promised in advance . |
| 28 | Her hair was glossy , perfectly straight and almost black , and it hung thickly around her perfectly-shaped head in a faultless bob that must have been done at Brisbane 's most exclusive hair salon . |
| 29 | I believe it must have been done outside the stable . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ How she was able to effect all this ’ , her nephew writes in his Memoir , ‘ is surprising , for she had no separate study to repair to , and most of the work must have been done in the general sitting-room , subject to all kinds of casual interruptions . |