Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [been] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But he might have been speaking a foreign language . |
| 3 | Indeed , for all that is known to the contrary , Ecgfrith may have been facing a Pictish-Scottish alliance in 685 . |
| 4 | Others may have been maintaining a stressful lifestyle for years , always rushing onwards , filling their time with one impossible task after the next . |
| 5 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 6 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 7 | He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket . |
| 8 | He may have been conducting a formal press conference in very informal dress at a most abnormal time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money . |
| 11 | It would have been a long walk to here , and no doubt some other person would have been offering a dubious lift by the time she arrived . |
| 12 | Many will have been wearing a special costume for their childhood which has given them particular concealment . |
| 13 | If you are self-employed you will have been paving a flat-rate Class 2 contribution every week and possibly the earnings-related Class 4 contributions as well . |