Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] have been [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must say that I feel Charles Greenwich must have been joking in his reply . |
| 2 | Ferguson 's promise was more praiseworthy than pondering how much Germany might have been holding in reserve . |
| 3 | Mind , neither Noodle nor Blueboobs would have been sittin' in that room amongst troopies and other enemies , jus ' twiddlin' their thumbs , in the first place … |
| 4 | The first is that the act of self-poisoning may have been rewarding in so far as any subsequent positive changes could be seen as resulting from the act itself . |
| 5 | HMS Reading should have been coming in the other direction . |
| 6 | ‘ Tom might have been talking in jest a while back , but there 's nothing to say you wo n't have another family between the two of you . |
| 7 | It is a picture of the 1888 regatta , but the yachts could have been sailing in the Bay in the 30s . |
| 8 | This suggests , once again , that comprehension experiments may have been looking in the wrong place for evidence of young children 's linguistic competence . |
| 9 | The mercantile agent in disposing of the goods must have been acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent . |
| 10 | On his return Geoffrey should have been waiting in the wings to assist him into his pirate coat — the hook attached to the sleeve rendered it cumbersome . |
| 11 | All those changes must have been happening in parallel with these other ones . |
| 12 | LOYAL Bluemen like you and Malcolm Brodie must have been crying in your beer when Bangor turned Linfield over yet again this week . |
| 13 | When normal people would have been lying in their beds with the covers over their heads , these MPs bounced on to our television screens debating the minutiae of the leadership election system . |
| 14 | How many people would have been working in , in the old store ? |
| 15 | And these were the very works , The Golden Bough , Welker Psychologie which Freud 's contemporaries would have been reading in English and German . |
| 16 | Members must have been trading in the UK for at least two years and must disclose their turnover and profits — lack of profits are not a bar to membership however , he added , because ‘ we would hate to disallow the big international business machine companies ’ . |
| 17 | He may or may not have reached it , but the fact is he did not try where as Chapman would have been flying in there . |
| 18 | Denys and Tania would have been turning in their graves . ’ |
| 19 | The drawings show some common occupations for women in 1880 and what their great-grand-daughters may have been doing in 1980 . |
| 20 | In other words , what would appear to be required is some awareness on the part of the defendant that he was making the task of the police a more difficult one , and this element may have been lacking in Willmott v. Atack , which would explain why the appeal was allowed . |
| 21 | By 1815 the canals may have been carrying in excess of 10 million tons of coal , not only more cheaply — on average coal prices ( and those of other bulky materials ) fell by between 50 and 70 per cent in larger urban centres with the opening of a canal — but also over an extended reach . |
| 22 | As has been shown in detail elsewhere ( Hanko 1986 , 1987 , 1989 ) , knowledge that can highlight the underlying issues has to be supplemented , and skills have to be developed in the group , which the designated supporter will have been applying in his work with children , but now has to redeploy for work with fellow professionals . |
| 23 | What we appear to have here is a system where the structure of intervention , as displayed in the file data in other areas , bears only an indirect relationship to what actually happened in Team D. ( The specialist worker in Team C may have been operating in ways that in some respects are not wholly dissimilar , but the approach of the specialist team would seem radically different ) . |
| 24 | But other accounts of Summerchild 's death must have been appearing in the newspapers somewhere , because a little further on there is another cutting from The Times . |