Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There were also significant correlations with the actual accident statistics , r(1064)=0.142 , average weekday traffic flow , r(1064)=0.236 , accident estimate , r(1064)=0.278 , the time spent at the junction , r(1064)=0.246 , the number of vehicles visible in the film , r(1064)=0.201 , and the average speed at the junction , r(1064)=-0.118 , all of which are to a large degree measures of how much would actually have been happening at the junction . |
| 32 | A close friend said last night : ‘ The agony for Graham will have been coming to a decision with Brenda . |
| 33 | A Royal Ulster Constabulary spokesman said : ‘ Although he may have been coming to the end of his racing career , he was potentially valuable for stud purposes . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ I think it must have been coming from the cold of the church into the warmth , or , perhaps — ’ and she made a wan attempt at humour — ‘ it might have been the thought of attending the ladies ’ sewing circle which overcame me ! ’ |
| 35 | They should have been negotiating over the location of the European monetary institute and of a subsequent European central bank in the City of London , but they have never even raised those questions , despite the fact that , of all the countries of the European Community , the location of the central bank has much the greatest importance for Britain . |
| 36 | ‘ In that case , tell me what you were doing modelling shorts when you should have been rehearsing with the wedding dress you 're to wear at the show . ’ |
| 37 | It was so wet and cold that they might have been walking in the sea , but she did not seem to notice . |
| 38 | Martin and Roberts ( 1984 , pp. 11–12 ) found that older women , many of whom would not have been contributing to the state pension scheme in their own right , tended to leave the labour market in their mid-fifties . |
| 39 | ‘ Mait wo n't have been heading for the dock , ’ Ace reasoned . |
| 40 | A separate report indicated that Iran may have been working on the development of such a weapon on and off for a good decade . |
| 41 | He must have been working on the paper about the same time as he was writing the papers of Totem and Taboo , or just afterwards . |
| 42 | So , let's think about our objectives , first of all an objective , I might have come to Abbey Life to make money , last year , I might have been working in a factory , earning fifteen , twelve , fifteen thousand a year , and I might make my objective in my first year with Abbey Life to earn sixty thousand pounds . |
| 43 | It is true that the two eldest sons , William 19 or 20 , and Thomas 16 or 17 , might have been working in the mine as subsidiary members of a gang and are unrecorded in accounts . |
| 44 | Well you must have been going during the day while I was at work then . |
| 45 | ‘ He might have been standing near the edge and fallen after being struck . |
| 46 | Comparison of ‘ To Lucinda ’ with the first publication of ‘ The Rural Maid 's Reflexions ’ shows that Browne , for whatever reason , changed at least one title , though he may have been returning to the original . |
| 47 | Luke and Sonny knew he was coming on the afternoon train ; they should have been waiting at the railway station with the horse and trap . |
| 48 | Whoever it was must have been waiting by the telephone for the call . |
| 49 | At best , he should have been waiting until the morning and then politely requesting a desk and a telephone and an interpreter somewhere in the back reaches of their Counter-Terrorism building . |
| 50 | They must have been waiting in a car , as neither wore an overcoat and both were suddenly there smack in front of me , blocking the pavement , tantalizingly close to home . |
| 51 | He must have been lurking in the church hall , though I could n't see him properly in that dark corner . |
| 52 | ‘ The assassin must have been lying on the ground or Father standing on some steps ? |
| 53 | I felt a strong feeling of nausea as I realised that I had put my hand through the chest of a dead British soldier that could have been lying in the ditch for several days . |
| 54 | Cureton 's entry opens with a detailed and well-referenced history of stylistics , but suggests that it may have been suffering from a loss of confidence in the recent past . |
| 55 | Also , Edmund may already have been suffering from the illness , or possibly wound , of which he was soon to die . |
| 56 | Ellwood could have been talking to a simpleton . |
| 57 | He was castigating the new Royal Shakespeare production , Peter Brooke 's US , on the war in Vietnam , but he could almost have been talking about the magazine . |
| 58 | Tension would then have been growing by the hour , and it must have been hard indeed for the men to keep themselves from being overstressed by apprehension and excitement . |
| 59 | Its owner is upset by what 's happened , but feels Mark should n't have been playing with the dog in the first place . |
| 60 | These words from Flower of Scotland will no doubt have been running through the head of Dick Best as he flew home to London yesterday . |