Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " 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 | She was very religious and may have been considering the best approaches to make . |
| 7 | The grandparent could have been living a few houses away . |
| 8 | Indeed , for all that is known to the contrary , Ecgfrith may have been facing a Pictish-Scottish alliance in 685 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
| 11 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 12 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 13 | Many will have been wearing a special costume for their childhood which has given them particular concealment . |
| 14 | He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket . |
| 15 | Morpurgo must have been wearing the same tie the day she came to Tyler 's Hard . |
| 16 | ‘ The evidence extends only as far as the lower scapula , does it not ’ He could have been wearing an off-the-shoulder toga . ’ |
| 17 | By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money . |
| 18 | Others may have been maintaining a stressful lifestyle for years , always rushing onwards , filling their time with one impossible task after the next . |
| 19 | He appealed for information from anyone who had witnessed the incident , particularly people who might have been leaving the nearby Greenstead social club at about the same time . |
| 20 | Greek Intelligence must have been taking a more than passing interest in the activities of our friend Andropulos over a long period , years I would think . |
| 21 | NETRHA officers felt vulnerable on the point that the priority groups should have been getting an increased share of the regional budget . |
| 22 | At this stage you may also be in contact with the social services who may have been supporting the new client for some time . |
| 23 | Bowe might just have been demonstrating an innate sense of psychological testing techniques . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He might as well have been devising a new war game . |
| 27 | He might well have been working a small place on his own behalf . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | the United fans enjoyed this game … they should have been celebrating a bigger win too … |
| 30 | Perhaps we could have been celebrating the first golden anniversary of the 1,000 Reich boasted about by Hitler . |