Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There they would have been complaining about the weather , the European Commission 's new fishing controls and the imminence of bankruptcy . |
| 2 | She should have been thinking about the boys ' tea , and about Frederick 's dinner . |
| 3 | When Lloyd George talked about the Empires and Kingdoms , kings and crowns of Europe falling like withered leaves , he should have been talking about the millions of ordinary people , the music and laughter and minutiae of countless lives , washed away like a child 's map drawn on a slate left out in the rain . |
| 4 | He was castigating the new Royal Shakespeare production , Peter Brooke 's US , on the war in Vietnam , but he could almost have been talking about the magazine . |
| 5 | He was speaking about Yugoslavia — but he could have been talking about the appalling scenes in Somalia or other parts of Africa . |
| 6 | Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it . |
| 7 | Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it . |