Example sentences of "have been [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is recognised however that some reference to a version may be worthwhile , in that the producer of a module may well have been using a specific version of a referenced module during initial design . |
| 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 | He may have been conducting a formal press conference in very informal dress at a most abnormal time . |
| 4 | Whatever , she certainly would n't have been experiencing the gut-wrenching tension that she was feeling now . |
| 5 | But he might have been speaking a foreign language . |
| 6 | Moreover , it also allowed entry into the policewomen 's world , which , using van Maanen 's logic , would have been denied a male field-worker ( for the difficulties in establishing rapport experienced by a male researcher on the police see Warren and Rasmussen 1977 : 358 ) . |
| 7 | Indeed , for all that is known to the contrary , Ecgfrith may have been facing a Pictish-Scottish alliance in 685 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 10 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 11 | I BELIEVE Dr Cox should have been given a long jail sentence . |
| 12 | If I 'd known that I would have been given a long lecture at the end of the day , well … ’ |
| 13 | If somehow she could have been given a meagre share in their relationship , if one or the other had treated her as a confidante , it might have been more bearable . |
| 14 | I do n't think she should have been given a custodial sentence , but a community service to make her think about what she 's done . |
| 15 | I knew , of course , that one or other of the suore kept a constant eye on how we behaved , and I knew too that had they noticed anything ‘ unusual ’ I would have been given a severe talking-to and told not to come back . |
| 16 | YOUR TASK : often you will have been given an explicit purpose for making notes at the outset . |
| 17 | A police spokesman said it appeared Tony could have been struck a glancing blow by the wing mirror of a blue Transit-type van . |
| 18 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
| 19 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 20 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 21 | Many will have been wearing a special costume for their childhood which has given them particular concealment . |
| 22 | He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket . |
| 23 | ‘ The evidence extends only as far as the lower scapula , does it not ’ He could have been wearing an off-the-shoulder toga . ’ |
| 24 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 25 | By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money . |
| 26 | Others may have been maintaining a stressful lifestyle for years , always rushing onwards , filling their time with one impossible task after the next . |
| 27 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 28 | In not taking this step seven years or five years ago , this country could have been saved a great deal of suffering . |
| 29 | If mass had been negative , space-time would have been curved the other way , like the surface of a saddle . |
| 30 | Yet , as I watched all this from the very end of the slow queue , I had thought it would be me who would have been regarded the potential menace as I was at the wheel of the most outrageously styled and priced supercar ever . |