Example sentences of "[adv] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Not only is AT&T probably paying too much , it should not have been trying to buy the firm in the first place . |
| 32 | I had never suspected she had ever loved any man but Simon Ellis and I knew she could not have been referring to him since she had never spoken of him without affection and great kindness . |
| 33 | A High Court judge held that there was no basic statutory provision of education , so that if an LEA had ( instead of , as in this case , charging for it ) decided to cut music tuition altogether ( because of financial constraints ) it would not have been acting illegally . |
| 34 | ‘ Look for balding , bearded men , ’ I nearly said — but he may not have been looking for precisely that variety of technical person . |
| 35 | Esau can not have been expecting such remorse , such willingness to make amends from Jacob . |
| 36 | No , it might not have been counting when I think of it , cos it 'd be one guide coming out . |
| 37 | Killion should not have been flying ; he was supposed to be on reserve . |
| 38 | Horses would not have been lacking in the Isle of Wight . |
| 39 | But without Violet Blake , this match would not have been taking place . |
| 40 | My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems . |
| 41 | My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems . |
| 42 | Many of them will not have been earning enough to pay national insurance , so will not qualify for unemployment benefit — and will not affect the unemployment statistics . |
| 43 | This aspect is something that has increased in importance with the rise of inflation because there are very few cases where the deceased would not have been earning more by the date of trial than he was earning at the date of his death . |
| 44 | If she had searched his bedroom earlier , she thought ruefully , she would not have been shivering on the pavement in a black pullover and jeans at two o'clock in the morning , carrying a large screwdriver . |
| 45 | A human being who suffers a fatal heart attack when out walking in a wood would not have been setting out to ‘ die alone ’ . |
| 46 | An initial point is that the LDDC could not have been operating in a more favourable environment . |
| 47 | ‘ He may not have been working on it ; more likely he was deciding how to frame it . ’ |
| 48 | Sheriff Risk rejected suggestions that the Sikorsky should not have been landing on a restricted helideck . |
| 49 | What , you might not have been going to ask but I 'll tell you anyway , was their favourite food ? |
| 50 | Technically , Harvard dealers should not have been selling stock to clients who had not dealt three times with the company , unless they had sent out written information about the stock . |
| 51 | The Crown said Wilson co-operated fully with detectives and although the total amount of drugs had a street value of £40,000 , the ‘ relative margins ’ for each link in the chain meant Wilson would not have been making significant money . |
| 52 | Any sizable successful herbivorous group surely can not have been relying on one such geographically limited group of seed-plants to the exclusion of all others . |
| 53 | But then again , if she had been , you would not have been coming to see me . |
| 54 | Compare it with a late kouros ( fig. 72 ) , a larger work set on a grave in central Attica , of one Aristodikos , and beautifully preserved through having been taken down and buried when it can not have been standing very long , perhaps to avoid desecration by the Persian invader . |
| 55 | All that is known of medieval warfare suggests that Lothar and his men would not have been sleeping after dawn — least of all when they knew that battle was imminent — and that Lothar 's scouts would have kept him well informed of his brothers ' moves . |
| 56 | As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family . |
| 57 | If the police had never set up the jewellers shop , they would , in my judgment , have been doing the same thing , though of course they would not have been doing it in that shop , at that time . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | It brilliantly combines a legitimate trepidation about the Nazis with a certain ambivalence ( perhaps typical of those on the bourgeois Left in Britain at the time ) about the Russian bears who may or may not have been rescuing him , resolved in the end by the arrival of the charming governess — " better keep a hold on Nurse , just in case of something worse " ! |
| 60 | Presenting their greatest hits as a pension plan nest egg might not have been playing the cutting edge game but , blimey , who is ? |