Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [be] doing " in BNC.
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| 31 | The drawings show some common occupations for women in 1880 and what their great-grand-daughters may have been doing in 1980 . |
| 32 | They seem to have happened periodically over the last 900 million years , and may have been doing so since the early days of Earth ( the longer ago something happened , the less likely it is that we will have tripped over the evidence ) . |
| 33 | But he maintains that boxing is not his favourite sport , saying without hesitation : ‘ If my father had had the budget for it when I was young , I would have been doing motor racing . ’ |
| 34 | Even though in effect you 're using more of your income proportionately than you would have been doing before . |
| 35 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |
| 36 | The plaintiff 's solicitors must make regular checks ( and it is a good idea for the defendant 's insurers and solicitors to do the same ) on the wage rates at regular intervals , and not only on the rates for the job that the plaintiff would have been doing but the rate for any job into which he might have been promoted but for the accident . |
| 37 | But voters whose preferences have been distributed between these two parties will have been doing no more than indicate acceptable alternatives , of which the basic pattern must have been , " Let that candidate of Party B have my vote IF and only IF my higher preference for this candidate of Party A has not been effective " . |