Example sentences of "must [verb] been [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 2 | It must have been that day or the next , Adam thought , that he or one of them , surely he , had first suggested the commune idea . |
| 3 | An uncommonly good lunch it must have been that day . |
| 4 | Others said it must have been that girl who worked here , the one who was the German officer 's mistress , she knew everything that was going on around here . |
| 5 | I can also acknowledge that there must have been many women like her , all over Glasgow ; that there were then in the early 1900s when she was marrying and becoming a mother ; that there were later . |
| 6 | There may have been cases where the acquisition of the wrappers conferred no direct benefit on the Nestle Co. , but there must have been many cases where it did . |
| 7 | Surely there must have been many others equally clinching . |
| 8 | Clive Lloyd is one of the best-loved cricketers ever to walk on to a field , but after the relentless domination of his four-man pace attack there must have been many people who permitted themselves a smile at the news . |
| 9 | When the Renault RSO1 1500 cc turbo-charged car failed on lap 17 of the 1977 British Grand Prix at Silverstone , there must have been many people who did not see a future for this power-booster , particularly as it was the turbo-charger that caused the car 's withdrawal from the race . |
| 10 | There must have been many daughters like Margaret White , who described in the 1590s how she stayed on living with her widowed father , ‘ guided him and his household , and was continually with him in his sickness until his death ’ . |
| 11 | Umpire Alley eventually warned Holding , but there must have been many Lancastrians who were sad to see Lloyd , on his home ground , do nothing about it . |
| 12 | It must have been several dances later that she noticed Annie standing on the edge of the dance floor . |
| 13 | In the northern Weald , some of these men seem to have come from large Kentish estates round Tonbridge rather than from the Sussex coast ; there must have been several centuries of discussion before Wealden boundaries were finally sorted out . |
| 14 | There must have been another timeslip . |
| 15 | It must have been another gift . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It must have been those boys who climbed the wall after my apples , ’ said Miss Miggs . |
| 17 | It must have been those candles at the table . |
| 18 | She attended the funeral so I guess there must have been some contact there . |
| 19 | There must have been some mistake as a cheque for £25 was sent to your on 27th June 1991 and I received a letter of thanks on 30th July 1991 . |
| 20 | It was not a contest to excite the audience and there must have been some anxiety in Mason 's corner as it approached a critical stage . |
| 21 | When for once it is stated that Sir Raynold , the chaplain of Ridlington , Norfolk , owned a house and three acres , the reason must have been some difficulty over determining the value , which in this case is omitted . |
| 22 | From medieval times there must have been some kind of dwelling on the slight rise in the ground upon which the house stood . |
| 23 | There must have been some kind of remorse . |
| 24 | ‘ It must have been some idea the architect had . |
| 25 | ‘ But there must have been some word , ’ she said impatiently , ‘ some message . ’ |
| 26 | Hall no doubt attempted to justify his action , by referring to the meeting that he had with Lewis on 4th August , and although Palmerston said that he had checked with Lewis , there must have been some misunderstanding between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 27 | There must have been some error in the Conservative Central Office word processor as it churned out yet another brief for the hon. Gentleman to repeat . |
| 28 | However , in some of the cases that he mentioned it appears that there must have been some error , or they would have been dealt with more promptly . |
| 29 | The uncertainty principle implies that the early universe can not have been completely uniform because there must have been some uncertainties or fluctuations in the positions and velocities of the particles . |
| 30 | ‘ And yet there must have been some man who wished to . |