Example sentences of "this [noun sg] must have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the collection of this variety must have been considerable : Collinson noted on the back of a print of the Magnolia grandiflora flower in his copy of Catesby 's Natural History of Carolina , that there were twenty-nine of these trees at Goodwood in 1759 , two of them twenty feet high . |
| 2 | This election must have been one of the last in Scotland where open bribery took place . |
| 3 | But they 've found similar temples in other parts of the world , the same sort of arrangement of stones , so they think this religion must have been everywhere once . ’ |
| 4 | This issue must have been raised before and BSM would presumably be gratified to see the situation successfully resolved , once and for all . |
| 5 | This scene must have been enacted every spring for several hundred million years . |
| 6 | This lady must have been psychic or something , because in no time at all she was asking if I could enlarge necks on jumpers that other people had made too small to go over the head . |
| 7 | The work involved in writing this summation must have been back-breaking , and certainly took years of research . |
| 8 | Of course I can see now how infuriating this behaviour must have been . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Most of this stuff must have been here long before Glynn took over the business ; it 's a museum of pharmaceutical archaeology — ’ |
| 11 | It must be confessed that the passage quoted from the letter in the report does not explain the situation with great lucidity , but this defect must have been cured elsewhere in the letter , since Nield , J , observes : ‘ It was realised by all parties ( and indeed later in the letter plainly stated ) that only £600 a year would be payable during the currency of the counter-inflationary measures . ’ |
| 12 | The early wickets that came Illingworth 's way this season must have been particularly timely to boost the morale . |
| 13 | This gate must have been a conspicuous structure , since its footings project some 8 metres from the eastern corner of the temple . |
| 14 | Part of this success must have been due to the Dottridges ' persuasive advertising : |
| 15 | This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple . |
| 16 | This film must have been given an ‘ A ’ certificate by the censors but adults were easily persuaded to ‘ take us in , please , mister . ’ |
| 17 | It was , as Steve Hammond said , all there , but there was nothing , she realised , in all those pages to tell her of the particular hell this couple must have been through . |
| 18 | This recipe must have been one of Boulestin 's favourites . |
| 19 | This house must have been a lot to cope with . |