Example sentences of "must [verb] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourth point that the draftsman must cover is the possible abandonment of the index . |
| 2 | It must 've been the pipe . |
| 3 | " Funny , I did n't think I 'd hit him , but I suppose I must have — must 've been the second shot . |
| 4 | What all front row players must know is the danger involved in collapsing — that of a broken neck and permanent damage to the player involved . |
| 5 | Another major problem that we must consider is the possibility that the continuing rhythmicity is not due to the body clock . |
| 6 | Though , on looking across at him , and observing that one eyebrow had ascended aloft at what he must consider was the sharpness of her answer , she realised that she was never likely to get an interview if she did not control her exasperation at his evasive non-answers to most of her questions . |
| 7 | The only history that the critic must master is the history of words ; he must grasp the full historical meaning of the language used in the text , including all its associations , and of the names to which reference may be made , but only to the extent that their meaning is a matter of public record about the culture in which the text was produced . |
| 8 | Mr Moares said : ‘ What the public must understand is the fact that Nuclear Electric has to secure the economics of operation of the plant in the changed business circumstances which include the station 's reduced output capability , the new competitive trading arrangements within the industry , and the current general economic climate . |
| 9 | The difficulty of distinguishing between the kind of case which a tribunal has to determine and the statutory description of the situation which the tribunal must decide is the root cause of the problem . |
| 10 | Another danger she must avoid is the typhus still raging in the town . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , if it was intended as a distraction , then that must have been the moment when he poisoned his wife . |
| 12 | So Tom and Jerry must have been the support film for Jungle Book . |
| 13 | Must have been the early 1940s , my mother taking me for a walk near Bostall Woods during a gap in the bombing . |
| 14 | It must have been the last one left in London . |
| 15 | ‘ It must have been the timing that was out all along . ’ |
| 16 | They must have been the same year , for their birthdays were only two months apart . |
| 17 | For the writer of Chronicles , it is now impossible for this later Jewish community to say that God sent this punishment — it must have been the devil . |
| 18 | ‘ It must have been the other one ! |
| 19 | It must have been the other one . ’ |
| 20 | A few weeks later , Mrs Wilson discovered for herself what she felt must have been the reason for the heart attack . |
| 21 | But now , looking back , I think that such must have been the case . |
| 22 | I have heard her called a professional invalid , but I think by the time she retired to bed she must have been genuinely worn out , and duty done , how seductive must have been the temptation to escape into that room at the end of the house , with its garden door , and warm fire ; to write poetry , like Elizabeth Barrett Browning , and to be waited on by her daughter ( ‘ Coming , Mother ! ’ ) who would , and did , cope with the house and the shop and even my grandfather . |
| 23 | Tremayne said robustly , ‘ My dearest girl , it must have been the most dreadful accident . |
| 24 | Doone , with his promise of instant detection once I woke up , must have been the end of hope . |
| 25 | It must have been the totality of the situation that made me feel that heaven was very near and the invisible clearly seen . |
| 26 | It must have been the most bewildering social change since the Enclosures , and yet I can find no reference to it in the village School Log . |
| 27 | It must have been the time of the miners ' strike and the three-day week , though the chronology is all a blur now . |
| 28 | But at least one ingredient in the extraordinary reversal of expectation must have been the cumulative effect of seeing all those smug Labour front-bench faces oozing such complacency about their forthcoming victory in the weeks before the poll — Roy Hattersley , Robin Cook , Jack Cunningham , Bryan Gould . |
| 29 | In November 1914 at the Annual General Meeting , it became clear the Club had to abort some costly schemes and , although not blaming the war , it must have been the cause . |
| 30 | My expressing some Fear of being troublesome in coming so frequently , occasioned a great Variety of Invitations , both in Verse and Prose ; which I could seldom resist : And indeed her whole Behaviour to me was so extremely good-natur 'd and obliging , that I must have been the most ungrateful Person in the World , if I had not endeavour 'd to make some Return . |