Example sentences of "must have be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While they must have been closely linked , it would help if we could distinguish between the circulation of such goods and their deposition in graves , for it is the latter which is actually being studied . |
| 2 | This implies that the galaxies must have been closer together in the past . |
| 3 | As argued earlier , for prevalence to have risen to over 1,000 in 1984–5 from a very low baseline in 1979 and a major acceleration in the incidence rate around 1982–3 , annual incidence for the five agencies must have been over 400 during 1984–5 , compared with nearer 300 in 1985–6 . |
| 4 | Although it must have been over a hundred years old the cottage was still on the edge of the village simply because there was no building land beyond it . |
| 5 | one which must have been probably about so thick |
| 6 | I must have been partly stupefied by something they gave me . |
| 7 | Their women folk must have been equally formidable . |
| 8 | My boyhood hero Nelson must have been equally impressed . |
| 9 | I think I was feeling guilty — although we must have been equally relieved to have the subject at our disposal . |
| 10 | He must have been equally surprised to see her but he recovered first , and while Rachel was still floundering to find something to say and Julie was murmuring something about hoping he would enjoy working at OBEX he said , ‘ Actually , we 've met before . |
| 11 | For exemption to apply , the gift must have been made at least seven years before the donor 's death and moreover , it must have been unconditionally given ; or to use the jargon , ‘ without reservation ’ . |
| 12 | I THINK I must have been slightly mad for most of my life . |
| 13 | In the glaring light , the racket of cicadas , the events of the night seemed in some way fictional ; as if I must have been slightly drugged . |
| 14 | The lady in question was married to a lawyer who , in spite of being a writer to the signet , must have been singularly incompetent , for , as Gorthie remarked , ‘ he 's a senseless fellow that can make no shift for her and a great many children they have ’ . |
| 15 | At present , the woman must have been continuously employed by the same employer for two years . |
| 16 | She must have been nearly forty years of age , tall , thin and plainly dressed . |
| 17 | She must have been nearly seventy . |
| 18 | It must have been nearly 5 o'clock when , having finally got the cars across that ferry , we eventually drove into Martigues in dazzling late afternoon sunshine to see the fishing boats come in . |
| 19 | It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone . |
| 20 | And he must have been nearly ten minutes ! |
| 21 | It must have been nearly an hour . |
| 22 | ‘ It must have been between half-past seven and eight . ’ |
| 23 | I must have been awfully slow , I never got in ahead of her and was always the poor mutt who staggered into the office in the small hours , bleary-eyed and half-dead , while Olive , yawning profusely and clutching her hot water bottle to her bosom , was able to trip down the path to her waiting bed and not surface till about midday the next day . |
| 24 | All I can say about that is that it must have been awfully feeble acid to make your visions come out so pedestrian as this . |
| 25 | To Sara , more hard-pressed than ever at Lime Street , the intellectual and emotional sympathy binding Coleridge and Dorothy must have been both apparent and distressing , even if Dorothy , in De Quincey 's words , was a woman possessing ‘ no personal charms ’ : on only the second day of the visit Coleridge and Dorothy were occupied together correcting his poems for the new edition while Sara was left to carry the domestic burdens of the teeming cottage . |
| 26 | The thegns lived in increasing grandeur but in wooden halls rather than masonry villas ; although tapestried and heated by a central fire they must have been both dirty and draughty . |
| 27 | From the large numbers that have been found in this country ‘ key rings ’ must have been both popular and fashionable items : they also served a practical purpose for at the time pockets were not known . |
| 28 | His notes say that it was in 1924 , but it must have been sooner , probably 1921 or 1922 , because he was back in South Africa in time to get married in 1923 . |
| 29 | I know that I went there when the change I have spoken of must have been already complete . |
| 30 | I am sure that Alec Clegg must have been heavily influenced in , my favour by Basil , for I remember a very inconsequential performance before the Committee , caused more by nerves and fatigue rather than indifference . |