Example sentences of "there must [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | There must 've been with erm in forty seven was it the encirclement campaign where they allowed the nationalists to sort of drive through the , I do n't know the defences , they must 've been fairly certain of their support in certain areas by then . |
2 | Nearly four years have passed since The Satanic Verses was declared blasphemous by the late Ayatollah Khomeini , and during this long period of internal exile there must have been times when Rushdie , experiencing deep changes and wrenches in the soul , has wondered at the prescience of those words . |
3 | But Town take delight in proving people wrong … mind you they had to fight all the way against Wolves and there must have been times when they wondered whether they were going the right way … |
4 | There must have been times when their hearts were in their mouths , for it was not just an act of business long-sightedness , it was of some bravery ! |
5 | Despite the volume of sheer hard physical slog there must have been with no vacuum cleaners , washing machines , electric mixers or all the other electronic gadgetry which have eased the burden of housework considerably Eva has no recollection of her mother getting uptight or tense . |
6 | I sometimes wonder at the sheer multiplicity of the oyster Gryphaea arcuata there must have been on the earliest Jurassic sea-floors over what is now Europe , and the millions upon millions of creatures ( whatever they were ) that chewed their way through mid Jurassic mud to produce the trace-fossil Zoophycos . |
7 | There must have been at least 30 people at the summit that day , and at the sound of plastic and thin glass striking skull through wool , every head turned to see what would happen next . |
8 | There must have been at least twenty cavalrymen rowelling their horses down the cart track . |
9 | I could n't see much this afternoon , but there must have been at least one whole corps on that road . |
10 | For everyone who lost his faith , there must have been at least another who went to outcast London or to darkest Africa to convert the faint and hungry heathen ; there was a great deal of Christian confidence , and not simply a Church in retreat before agnostic scientists . |
11 | There must have been at least one individual who had a different number of chromosomes from his parents . |
12 | ‘ There must have been at least a dozen of them , ’ I lied in mock modesty , ‘ and I doubt if four of them will live to greet tomorrow 's dawn . ’ |
13 | It is believed there must have been at least three people who knew exactly what they were looking for . |
14 | A Darlington police spokesman said the gang had broken into the offices , just off Hollyhurst Road , after 10.30pm on Friday night and the size of the safe indicated there must have been at least three people involved . |