Example sentences of "[modal v] have [been] [v-ing] in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Although the scribes no doubt made ‘ errors ’ , it should be possible to investigate variable texts in extenso to determine the extent to which variation in spelling ( or indeed in other linguistic dimensions ) is in fact orderly , and whether this variation can help us to work out what might have been happening in spoken English at the time .
2 Occasionally a light showed silver , faint in one of the streets below , and but for that , and for the sounds as their feet struck the timbers of a bridge , they might have been walking in some open courtyard instead of in narrow alleys raised between the walls of tall buildings .
3 A State Department official said : ‘ This could have been happening in other places , too . ’
4 It 's thought they may have been drinking in this pub on Wellingborough road earlier in the evening .
5 The drawings show some common occupations for women in 1880 and what their great-grand-daughters may have been doing in 1980 .
6 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 …
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