Example sentences of "must have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sliver of white that must 've been teeth . |
| 2 | Er , I think really it must 've been thrift . |
| 3 | ‘ It must 've been Helga . |
| 4 | There must have been assignations . |
| 5 | Although unfortunately details of the projects are tantalizingly hard to ascertain , at least two attempts were made after 1888 by the Edinburgh Typographical Society to set up a women 's union , The first , in the late 1880s , is referred to only in the retrospective " statement on the Female Question " , published in 1904 ; Miss Black of London [ who must have been Clementina Black ] a lady who was well-known for her efforts to improve the social condition of her sex , offered to make an endeavour to organise the female compositors in Edinburgh , with a view to remedying the evils complained of by the journeymen . |
| 6 | Part of the problem must have been competition between northern and southern universities , ’ says Irvine . |
| 7 | His rounds took him to most parts of the building and Rain was eagerly accepting that it must have been Stan on the second floor making her jumpy when he mentioned that since the murder he did not go into MacQuillan 's room or those next to it because the police were usually there . |
| 8 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 9 | It must have been reference for Jenny to be |
| 10 | By elimination , Donna 's mother must be Jean , and the programme seen by Ann and Julie must have been Peter Pan and Popeye . |
| 11 | That , Ace reckoned , must have been Benny 's . |
| 12 | I assumed it must have been Eric calling . |
| 13 | I mapped out our plans — the Palladium , the TV series — must have been £50,000 of work . |
| 14 | Choreographers must have been dancers themselves if they are to understand and feel the natural abilities of the body and to allow fur the influence of the techniques in which they have been trained . |
| 15 | Sometimes it may seem obvious that there must have been negligence , as in the case of the purchaser of a bath bun who found a stone in the middle of it ( Chaproniere v. Mason ( 1905 C.A. ) ) . |
| 16 | There must have been text books around at one time but I can not even identify any titles let alone suppliers . |
| 17 | McIllvanney must have been Billingsley 's source for the policeman 's information about my boat and my plans to repair her . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's funny that after all these years I still have n't forgotten what I 've been taught — so it must have been money well spent . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I thought at first it must have been Ivy Cook , ’ Zen went on . |
| 20 | ‘ Then it must have been holiday-makers out for a walk , ’ said Betty . |
| 21 | On the other hand , there is evidence in the fifteenth century of town building of both domestic and commercial property , which was clearly a speculative attempt to secure a profit , so there must have been advantages to be gained from this . |
| 22 | It must have been Nona . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Well , it must have been Jos then , ’ Mungo concluded . |
| 24 | They must have been sleepers . |
| 25 | Superficially the safe solution is to assume that nil and £1 assessments indicate journeymen and apprentices , while from about £5 most must have been master craftsmen . |
| 26 | Then a police car pulled in behind , then another one , and four lovely bobbies got out and told the Americans — well , they must have been Americans , and huge they were — to put their guns away or be disarmed . |
| 27 | We must have been fules , you see , to have took all that trouble to level our things up ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It must have been Sam . |
| 29 | that they did n't enjoy it and therefore it must have been rape cos they did n't wa they did n't like it . |
| 30 | For my mother , who remembered seeing her only brother , also called Robert , off to France in the First World War , never to see him again , this farewell on the platform must have been agony . |