Example sentences of "they [vb mod] have been [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite their being one of the most common types of artefact in female graves , they may have been considered a personal luxury . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | First , take the point made by Mr. Holloway from Germany , who says that South Africa ( they should have been granted a dispensation and welcomed to World Cup 1991 ) must surely go through the full qualifying process for 1995 . |
| 4 | the United fans enjoyed this game … they should have been celebrating a bigger win too … |
| 5 | In the morning , I slept through the pigeons , but around 8.30 a loud banging started down in the nave like they might have been building a scaffold or something . |
| 6 | Can I just mention that the reason why some of the older properties in this village has steeper pitched roofs is not because they 're pantiled now , because originally they were erm , thatched , and the thatch needs a very steep pitch and particularly when there 's a erm a gable end higher than the pantiles , it 's where there was a thatched roof originally , but most of the older properties in this village are only one room wide , so you ca n't get a very big roof on , no matter how steep it is , the proposed houses here are in fact virtually sort of two rooms wide are n't they , so that means they are wide at the eves , I I would personally have thought that erm they could have been pitched a bit less . |
| 7 | People with head injuries who ca n't get the long-term treatment they need have been promised a better deal . |
| 8 | They would have been paying an interest rate of 11.75 p.c. — which increased to 15 p.c. in January 1980 — compared with the current rate of about 10.95 p.c . |