Example sentences of "have been [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , they should have been using heroin regularly for a period of at least two years . |
| 2 | He could have been composing rubbish for all I was competent to judge , yet that possibility did not enter my head . |
| 3 | No material was found , and the Home Office insisted that if it had been it would not have been made public . |
| 4 | The procedure is only available for proposed and not completed mergers and the merger proposal must have been made public . |
| 5 | The arguaments over the truth of the book and whether it should have been made public will rage for some time to come . |
| 6 | Had the Republican candidate in 1980 been an ideologue , he would have suffered the same fate as Barry Goldwater in 1964 ; if , by some fluke , he had been elected , he would have been denied cooperation by congress and would have been drummed out of office in 1984 . |
| 7 | Sometimes when the glass has been removed for cleaning and restoration it may have been reassembled back-to-front . |
| 8 | Similarly , the Prayer Book published in 1559 described the baptized child as ‘ a member of Christ , the child of God , and an inheritor of the kingdom ’ , a form of words which seemed to discount the possibility that the infant might have been born reprobate . |
| 9 | He would have been supplying booze to restaurants and nightclubs . |
| 10 | Michael Green of Carlton may have won the London daily franchise from Thames and Andrew Quinn may have been appointed head of ITV 's scheduling , but they still have everything to prove . |
| 11 | Had the court been provided with the information that was necessary , he said , PW would not have been appointed receiver-manager because of ‘ the untenable conflict position ’ in which it had placed itself . |
| 12 | It was not made public because that would have been to give warning to the culprit . ’ |
| 13 | of all divers seen have been moving east up the coast . |
| 14 | The gallery would have been facing East . |
| 15 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 16 | Latterly , they would have been reading Virgin books , watching Virgin videos and Virgin films . |
| 17 | She 'd have been given help by the Lord Chancellor 's Department , and her costs would have been minimal . |
| 18 | The Leeds manager would never have been given air time on general football matters as he was always perceived as someone who was fronting an organisation that stood for the worst things in football . |
| 19 | More commonly , he will have been given power to make laws , subject only to the controlling authority of one or both Houses of Parliament to unmake them , or to withhold the endorsement necessary for them to continue to enjoy the force of law . |
| 20 | But there is an action group of people opposed to it who say it should never have been given planning permission . |
| 21 | Many Bristol graduates will have been taught music by Professor Ray Warren but I wonder how many have been taught mathematics by him ? |
| 22 | Confident that their management would have been monitoring progress closely , the men depended on the judgement of their supervisors . |
| 23 | Mick added : ‘ I was pretty proud , but if I 'd cooked it , I 'd have been eating pumpkin pie all year . ’ |
| 24 | She might as well have been eating spam . |
| 25 | However , the COB Rules that are applied to these group activities will only apply if they would have been regulated business ( and so within the territorial scope of the SFA rules ) if they had in fact been investment business . |
| 26 | A prostitute who was murdered and dumped in a canal may have been kept prisoner for twenty-four hours before she was killed . |
| 27 | A decade earlier the process might have been dubbed distanciation , instead it passed with the merest ribbing and rueful acknowledgement of the new plumage . |
| 28 | Given the arguments of the sceptics , such failures are only to be expected of course ; aiming to replace anxious intellectual despair with a calm peace of mind , the traditional Pyrrhonian response would have been to advocate suspension of judgement . |
| 29 | say ca n't recall , we would have been recommending contingency fund |
| 30 | Perot was furious ; instead of chasing chimeras , his money could have been earning interest in the bank . |