Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opioid use is the top category , and individuals in this group may also have been using any of the drugs in the other five categories . |
| 2 | Barbiturates are the second hierarchical category , and individuals in this group may have been using any of the drugs in the four categories below , but not opioids . |
| 3 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 4 | Any other woman would have been spitting angry at being kept waiting for four and a half hours . |
| 5 | But for the alteration in taxation in the Budget and also the minor alterations in projected expenditure which preceded it , we should have been facing 1968/69 with the identical prospect of a further creation of additional purchasing power . |
| 6 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 7 | ‘ It must have been getting light at about seven o'clock . |
| 8 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 9 | ‘ If I 'd been fitter I would have been sitting next to him on that aeroplane , ’ said heartbroken Fiona , who had nicknamed her lover the ‘ Kiwi Crocodile Dundee . ’ |
| 10 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |
| 11 | Finn must have been lying awake in the darkness , as she was , the wall separating them like Tristan 's sword , for she could hear the soft murmur of him and Francie talking together for a little while , but she could not make out one word . |
| 12 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 13 | Alex 's strange position in the production must have been making all of the usual understudy agonies even worse . |