Example sentences of "to have been [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be eligible for the study women had to be white , British , married , aged 25–39 years , and to have been taking oral contraceptives for at least five months , or using a diaphragm or intrauterine device for at least five months without previous exposure to oral contraceptives . |
| 2 | Subsequently , when the code was broken , both were found to have been taking ursodeoxycholic acid . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Since Holyfield took over and made grandad-bashing respectable on the heavyweight scene , those young lions who ought to have been clawing each other for the right to depose and expose him have been harmlessly shadow boxing around each other . |
| 5 | This is reasonable , as one would expect deaf people in the USA to have been using some sign language before the imported use of FSL . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thus planning permission had been granted ( on 22 December 1975 , close enough to Christmas for no-one to have been paying much attention ) and the period for appealing the planning permission was past before local residents discovered that Raybestos Manhattan would be processing and emitting asbestos , a highly toxic pollutant and confirmed mass killer . |
| 8 | Almost at once Ruth felt as if she were sliding into a dream ; the glade vanished behind them , and soon she seemed to have been walking this path all her life , through the vista of trees , with the tip of Fand 's spear faintly gleaming , and Adam ahead of her , treading like a king . |
| 9 | Headland has persuasively argued that , just as with the pygmies above , there was just not enough food for such groups in the forest itself ; in this case , the people seemed to have been trading wild meat for goods including carbohydrate and , indeed , may have grown it themselves in the past . |
| 10 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | Mr Hargreaves was believed to have been carrying ice-climbing equipment . |