Example sentences of "[adv] have been [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can hardly have been wearing a ski mask in the street at that hour of the morning , whether it was snowing or not . ’ |
| 2 | You will also have been earning a salary meanwhile , so you are likely to be considerably better off as a result . |
| 3 | The American troupe were refreshingly different , innovative , but Virginia reflected afterwards that she might as well have been watching a film with no pictures , in a language she did n't understand , such was her lack of concentration on the details of that evening . |
| 4 | He might as well have been blowing a dog whistle for all we heard of his wasted energy . |
| 5 | A furious magistrate told Terrance Long : ‘ You might as well have been driving a bomb ! ’ |
| 6 | Had the defendant been aware , it is submitted , he would have had no defence , since he would then have been making a mistake as to whether or not the policeman was justified in seeking to restrain him , and whether he was therefore acting in the execution of his duty . |