Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 Indeed , for all that is known to the contrary , Ecgfrith may have been facing a Pictish-Scottish alliance in 685 .
7 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 .
8 If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years .
9 But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style .
10 But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style .
11 Many will have been wearing a special costume for their childhood which has given them particular concealment .
12 He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket .
13 ‘ The evidence extends only as far as the lower scapula , does it not ’ He could have been wearing an off-the-shoulder toga . ’
14 By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money .
15 Others may have been maintaining a stressful lifestyle for years , always rushing onwards , filling their time with one impossible task after the next .
16 NETRHA officers felt vulnerable on the point that the priority groups should have been getting an increased share of the regional budget .
17 At this stage you may also be in contact with the social services who may have been supporting the new client for some time .
18 Bowe might just have been demonstrating an innate sense of psychological testing techniques .
19 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 .
20 She pinched herself , but might as well have been pinching the padded plastic of the bed on which she sat for all the sensation she felt .
21 He might as well have been devising a new war game .
22 He might well have been working a small place on his own behalf .
23 But he may have been observing the traditional superstition that it is unlucky for the bridegroom to see the bride on the eve of her wedding .
24 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 .
25 The defences could have been protecting an Imperial establishment rather than a small town .
26 It would just have been having a good time .
27 ‘ All the more reason why he should have been having the full attention of you both , ’ Doctor Staples said sharply .
28 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 .
29 He must have been playing the beastly thing for years .
30 The suggestion was that his subordinates might have been running the illegal operation .
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