Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NETRHA officers felt vulnerable on the point that the priority groups should have been getting an increased share of the regional budget . |
| 2 | Instead of worrying about how to make the RUC acceptable to the minority , O'Neill should have been using the legitimate power of the state to crush an illegal insurrection . |
| 3 | the United fans enjoyed this game … they should have been celebrating a bigger win too … |
| 4 | ‘ All the more reason why he should have been having the full attention of you both , ’ Doctor Staples said sharply . |
| 5 | ‘ Prince Charles should have been running an organic farm , with special interests in the arts . |
| 6 | But one of the offices in the area must have been undergoing a thorough make-over , because along with the garbage and a tangled mess of strip aluminium and ceiling tiles he found a number of office throwouts that included a desk lamp with about five yards of trailing flex . |
| 7 | Greek Intelligence must have been taking a more than passing interest in the activities of our friend Andropulos over a long period , years I would think . |
| 8 | Morpurgo must have been wearing the same tie the day she came to Tyler 's Hard . |
| 9 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
| 10 | He must have been playing the beastly thing for years . |
| 11 | Neil Ruddock 's goal midway through the first half lit the fuse … and when Steve McManaman exploded a right footer just before half-time every Town fan must have been fearing the worst … |
| 12 | He appealed for information from anyone who had witnessed the incident , particularly people who might have been leaving the nearby Greenstead social club at about the same time . |
| 13 | But he might have been speaking a foreign language . |
| 14 | The suggestion was that his subordinates might have been running the illegal operation . |
| 15 | The grandparent could have been living a few houses away . |
| 16 | ‘ The evidence extends only as far as the lower scapula , does it not ’ He could have been wearing an off-the-shoulder toga . ’ |
| 17 | While agreeing broadly with the England manager 's summing-up of the present Brazilian team , the thought did occur that in another footballing era he could have been describing an Italian side — brilliant in breakaways but giving nothing away at the back . |
| 18 | The defences could have been protecting an Imperial establishment rather than a small town . |
| 19 | Perhaps we could have been celebrating the first golden anniversary of the 1,000 Reich boasted about by Hitler . |
| 20 | She was very religious and may have been considering the best approaches to make . |
| 21 | Indeed , for all that is known to the contrary , Ecgfrith may have been facing a Pictish-Scottish alliance in 685 . |
| 22 | At this stage you may also be in contact with the social services who may have been supporting the new client for some time . |
| 23 | Others may have been maintaining a stressful lifestyle for years , always rushing onwards , filling their time with one impossible task after the next . |
| 24 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 25 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 26 | He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket . |
| 27 | He may have been conducting a formal press conference in very informal dress at a most abnormal time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But he may have been observing the traditional superstition that it is unlucky for the bridegroom to see the bride on the eve of her wedding . |
| 30 | By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money . |