Example sentences of "must [verb] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Honderich himself throws up difficulties with regard to his third point , in that Conservatism must have been at least partly responsible for the ‘ decent ’ society he found when he arrived in Britain thirty years ago . |
| 2 | The image omitted almost constant service to the Sanusis ; it also omitted what must have been at least intermittent contact with the Turks . |
| 3 | It must have been at the very time of the proceedings against Myln that the archbishop of St Andrews received the earl of Argyll 's answers to his letter of admonition of 31 March 1558 , in which he warned the earl of the dangers of his support for Protestantism . |
| 4 | We had deduced there must have been at least four : . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Conceive what I must have been at fourteen , ’ he reminisced to James Gillman , his first biographer . |
| 7 | The letters must have been at least two feet in height and to do this job from a ladder , with only a young apprentice to hold it steady was quite a feat . |
| 8 | ‘ Though we knew by the place where he had fallen that it must have been at the very summit just as the path runs down the cliff to Kinghorn Manor . ’ |
| 9 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
| 10 | The alternative voting system at least possesses the virtue of requiring that if such policies are to be persisted in , the doctrine in which they are grounded must have been at least minimally acceptable to , if not the first choice of , a majority of voters . |
| 11 | And at the end of it , after eating what must have been at least half-a-dozen scrambled eggs , plus bacon , sausages and several buns , the couple got up to reload their plates … |
| 12 | Theo 's fears that his brother was on a self-destructive course must have been at least partly eased by this letter . |
| 13 | It was even rumoured that Western architects were approached , but that must have been at a subordinate level since early on one clear idea took hold of Ceauşescu 's mind : the whole project , from design through the workforce to the materials used , must come from Romania itself . |
| 14 | It is strange therefore that the signal box instruments revealed it as clear , the signal must have been at green , or had a heavy weight been lying across the signal wire ? |
| 15 | A magazine rack overflowed with rolled newspapers : they had obviously arrived by post , but many were unopened , as though Reid had n't had time to catch up with news that must have been at least a month old . |
| 16 | There must have been at least twenty cavalrymen rowelling their horses down the cart track . |
| 17 | I could n't see much this afternoon , but there must have been at least one whole corps on that road . |
| 18 | The damn thing must have been at least two feet long . |
| 19 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 20 | He gazed at her without speaking for what must have been at least a minute . |
| 21 | She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat . |
| 22 | You must have been at a party . ’ |
| 23 | At its height his income from land must have been at least £200 per annum . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The bursting upon the scene of an organized working class carrying out industrial action on a substantial level , or not just working-class suffrage but , for the first time , mass political parties , and especially working-class parties must have been at least partly experienced as an eruption of contingency and chaos into a world of order . |
| 26 | It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now . |
| 27 | the way Val talks I think I must have been at something else . |
| 28 | There must have been at least one individual who had a different number of chromosomes from his parents . |
| 29 | But of course any God capable of intelligently designing something as complex as the DNA/protein replicating machine must have been at least as complex and organized as that machine itself . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |