Example sentences of "[vb pp] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second-century cremation cemetery has been uncovered south of the defended area in Swan Street ; it was claimed to have been receiving additional burials as late as the third and fourth centuries , when it must have lain within the built-up area . |
| 2 | Earlier , about 50,000 protesters were reported to have been chanting anti-government slogans in Timisoara and demanding that the bodies of victims be returned to their families . |
| 3 | Meanwhile Mick is reported to have been seeing glamorous 21-year-old Aussie model Peta Wilson in Los Angeles . |
| 4 | Competitors are even reported to have been digging their own wells to beat the water shortage in a bid to land a prize in the competition run in conjunction with the Royal Horticultural Society . |
| 5 | In early February the Senate was reported to have been considering government proposals to reject responsibility for more than $200,000,000 in loans to the Stroessner government from international lending agencies . |
| 6 | Wilko was reported to have been looking at Ronnie earlier this season but nothing came of it . |
| 7 | The Edmond family is reported to have been running crime rings , in a small way , for generations . |
| 8 | However , Smith effectively confirmed Muhlfeit 's assertions that a case is to be brought against an electronic bulletin board service company , which is reported to have been distributing software for free as part of its service to its subscribers . |
| 9 | At one time for example she was reported to have been racing around Melbourne in a brand new pink sports car . |
| 10 | Traders are reported to have been stockpiling the horns in the hope of higher prices should rhinos become extinct . |
| 11 | of all divers seen have been moving east up the coast . |
| 12 | The Emperor is supposed to have considered giving up the Province , and Seneca , who , as one of his advisers was well informed , is said to have been calling in his , or the Imperial , loans . |
| 13 | House broker Smith New Court is said to have been promoting the stock to its clients . |
| 14 | Architects are said to have been prowling on the island incognito gathering intelligence for their mission . |
| 15 | Company fleet buyers are said to have been holding back , pondering the result of a value added tax case that removed obstacles in the way of offering cash rather than the car perk . |
| 16 | He is said to have been trying to get his ship into port in a force nine gale with almost no visibility — and guided by a pilot on shore . |
| 17 | IBM top brass is said to have been meeting with Hewlett-Packard officials at various locations around the US over the last few days to lobby for their support and an announcement may now be imminent . |
| 18 | A man answering a description of Magee , who was knee-capped in Northern Ireland several years ago , was said to have been lagging behind the two terrorists as they ran from their gold-coloured Ford Granada getaway car , which they had abandoned in Charnwood Street , Derby , minutes after the shooting on Monday evening . |
| 19 | At one time , the marquess was said to have been spending £1,200 a week on drugs . |
| 20 | Iraq is said to have been spending something like 25% of its GDP on arms , and others are not far behind . |
| 21 | Another Pyramid OEM , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG , is said to have been working closely with the company on R4000-based systems ( UX No 357 ) . |
| 22 | Although ‘ teleworking ’ might be considered to be an old idea — anyone who has done the odd bit of paperwork at home while keeping in touch with the office by telephone can be said to have been doing it — the opportunity to have computer-aided design , back-office and data entry work carried out full-time away from the office has widened immeasurably . |
| 23 | Koty was said to have been planning the insurrection through contacts with people in several towns , and had fled , taking with him a number of dissident troops . |
| 24 | Kazakhstan was said to have been losing 150,000,000 roubles daily since May because of the difference between its fuel prices and those of Russia [ see also p. 38923 ] . |
| 25 | But what makes HP 's claims more convincing than most is the support from traditional IBM mainframe software suppliers , something HP is said to have been putting together for the last 18 months . |
| 26 | She was said to have been suffering from depression and her death was ascribed to suicide . |
| 27 | Somebody 's actually got to do the appointing if you have the , the er er er i i independent members and I do n't think it 's u is unreasonable for my Right Honourable Friend to say that the Home Secretary should do that er provided that he is not seen to have been taking an overtly political view . |
| 28 | First , it would be evidence of western resolve ; the Americans would not , after all , be seen to have been bluffing . |
| 29 | Now C twenty eight that some people who I 've noticed have been talking one minute . |
| 30 | In Art History the rehabilitation of artists and bodies of work which have been overlooked has been going on since Vasari made such a good job of classifying Florentine art that all other art in Italy and beyond has had to be defined , at least until this century , and at some level even now , in relation to Vasari 's classifications , or at least in relation to the model of stylistic evolution which he outlined . |