Example sentences of "must have [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.

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1 For the young , there must have existed an inherited inborn enjoyment of life , for it can fairly safely be assumed that the pleasure experienced by them when at play , so obvious to modern man , must have been observable all through evolution .
2 You must have cared an awful lot about her to deliberately stay away from London because of her .
3 If this were so then these other clubs must have breathed a sigh of relief when City 's books were not produced .
4 Then a woman in the street — the Via Monserato , between the Tiber and the Farnese Square , they talked about it so much , Mena and my grandmother , when I was little , I think they talked about it every day : Il Quartiere Papale , it does have a magnificent sound , has n't it ? and so much of it a slum ; the rich live above on the piani nobili , the ground floors and cellars are rented out to artisans ; my mother , who was brought up in those streets , says to know them you must have breathed the air in the evenings when the wine-shops are full and they are lighting charcoal braziers on the pavements ; she says I will go one day , but I think I know already — well , a woman in Mena 's street who sold salad greens knew the cook who worked for Anna and the prince round the corner and Mena was given things to do in the kitchen .
5 To qualify for an ultra race , runners must have completed a full marathon in under three hours 30 minutes .
6 Magistrates sitting in the Juvenile Court must have completed the special training for the Juvenile Panel .
7 Siferwas must have completed the decoration of the Lectionary before 1408 , the year of the death of John , fifth Baron Lovell of Titchmarsh , who commissioned the manuscript for Salisbury Cathedral .
8 Anyone interested in joining the course must have completed the retail management training scheme .
9 To be eligible for the DBA programme candidates must have completed an MBA or a similar degree-level qualification in management .
10 To be eligible for the DBA programme candidates must have completed an MBA ( Master of Business Administration ) or a similar degree-level qualification in management .
11 Two of the several names owned by another recipient had strayed into someone 's word-processor to create a further deserving don , the knowing reference to whom must have ruined the new year for more than one senior scholar .
12 Revelations that the Home Office estimates that as many as 70 per cent of all offences may be committed by people awaiting trial must have shocked the nation .
13 The puppets are modelled on the famous illustrations by Tenniel — but Spitting Images must have influenced the formidable duchess and Tebbit-like cook and they stirred their pepper soup and sneezed .
14 He must have constructed a pretty good strong bow too ( according to my detailed instructions ) which would by now no doubt be broken into unidentifiable pieces in distant undergrowth .
15 ‘ Maurice must have hoped the kidnappers would think the sequence had ended one earlier .
16 This meant that the jury must have accepted the defence in relation to one charge but not in relation to the other .
17 I accepted his offer as Sir Galahad must have accepted the Holy Grail .
18 I must have accepted the prospect of this baby with a vengeance , if I were seriously thinking of knitting as a desirable occupation .
19 Must have stopped every ten yards between junctions seventeen and eighteen .
20 he must have stopped the felt tip .
21 The headmistress let out a yell that must have rattled every window-pane in the building and for the second time in the last five minutes she shot out of her chair like a rocket .
22 Mike Gatting presented , and in the pre-match interviews he stressed that it was very , very hot , and I swear Gatt must have lost a stone just standing out in the middle talking about the pitch .
23 Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ?
24 ‘ And take something for yourself ; you must have lost a day 's trading to chase after us . ’
25 She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been .
26 Since he did not have the physical strength of most of the others , this was important for him and must have contributed a lot to his effectiveness .
27 This was followed by an interview between the President and Von Papen : and I can not help thinking that , during their conversation together , the former must have assured the latter that , so long as she could hold out against Allied demands , Turkey would abstain from hostile action towards Germany .
28 This must have reinforced the terror of such places , as portrayed in Beowulf and the chronicles relating to St Guthlac .
29 Such references to the freedom of the divine will were often used in the seventeenth century to justify attacks on rationalist theories of nature , whose authors presumed to know how God must have shaped the world .
30 Of course it need not follow that separate assessment must have cast the younger members of every family as wage earners , any more than it did in other shires where traces of an emergent discrete labouring class were already manifest .
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