Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have been [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | According to Dore ( 1979 ) the later that capitalist development occurs the less likely there will have been established a prior system of free wage labour in a capitalist agricultural sector . |
| 32 | Despite their being one of the most common types of artefact in female graves , they may have been considered a personal luxury . |
| 33 | They may have intended to present the information as a factual account , or they may have been investigating a particular area with a view to using the material obtained as a background for a piece of more imaginative writing . |
| 34 | First , take the point made by Mr. Holloway from Germany , who says that South Africa ( they should have been granted a dispensation and welcomed to World Cup 1991 ) must surely go through the full qualifying process for 1995 . |
| 35 | the United fans enjoyed this game … they should have been celebrating a bigger win too … |
| 36 | In the morning , I slept through the pigeons , but around 8.30 a loud banging started down in the nave like they might have been building a scaffold or something . |
| 37 | Can I just mention that the reason why some of the older properties in this village has steeper pitched roofs is not because they 're pantiled now , because originally they were erm , thatched , and the thatch needs a very steep pitch and particularly when there 's a erm a gable end higher than the pantiles , it 's where there was a thatched roof originally , but most of the older properties in this village are only one room wide , so you ca n't get a very big roof on , no matter how steep it is , the proposed houses here are in fact virtually sort of two rooms wide are n't they , so that means they are wide at the eves , I I would personally have thought that erm they could have been pitched a bit less . |
| 38 | People with head injuries who ca n't get the long-term treatment they need have been promised a better deal . |
| 39 | They would have been paying an interest rate of 11.75 p.c. — which increased to 15 p.c. in January 1980 — compared with the current rate of about 10.95 p.c . |
| 40 | He may have been conducting a formal press conference in very informal dress at a most abnormal time . |
| 41 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 42 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 43 | He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket . |
| 44 | He may have been looking a bit weary , but he was doing a splendid linking job and Whitton found it hard fill the gap . |
| 45 | Furious Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson argued it should have been called an incomplete pass and made his point forcibly after the Redskins ' 20-17 victory . |
| 46 | In reply , Greenidge and Richards hammered 88 in even time , but then only Murray made a substantial score , his 64 being joint top with Richards and 41 more than it should have been had a catch been accepted ; 308 all out . |
| 47 | Musician to the end , he died through insisting on conducting a new revival of Castor et Pollux when he should have been nursing an illness . |
| 48 | He should have been given a medal for trying to catch a car vandal . |
| 49 | Derek felt from an early age that he should have been born a woman . |
| 50 | ‘ Something is wrong , Fabia ? ’ he asked urgently , leaving his stance over by the French window where he must have been taking a look outside , to come over to her . |
| 51 | He must have been staggering a bit out there by the pool . |
| 52 | ‘ Looking back , what he said is really strange , bearing in mind he must have been murdered a little while later . ’ |
| 53 | It must have been chasing a squirrel or something and fell into the hollow and could not get out again . ’ |
| 54 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 55 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 56 | For instance , domestic violence is now seen as unacceptable , whereas until recently it might have been considered a ‘ private ’ affair . |
| 57 | Had he been there earlier he might have been asked a less direct question . |
| 58 | But he might have been speaking a foreign language . |
| 59 | He might have been planning a Cooks ' Tour . |
| 60 | He might have been giving an apple to a horse . |