Example sentences of "[adj] to have [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he had been fortunate to have been sitting at the back of the coach he received a fractured spine . |
| 2 | ‘ All that he 's likely to have been wearing , including shoes . ’ |
| 3 | No , he 's more likely to have been driving the Custom Shop totally insane for about two years straight , telephoning at obscure hours to tell them about his change of heart concerning the exact height of the fret-wire . |
| 4 | He was therefore likely to have been driving through Theale late on Sunday . |
| 5 | However , of all those present , he was probably the least likely to have been attempting to secure the work for himself . |
| 6 | you perhaps have n't got the same degree of landlord exploitation , you might , I think one might argue from , from what we said earlier that in the north you 've got a s a slightly more paternalistic landlord , it 's , it , there 's less , less absentee landlordism landlords were more likely to have been behaving within the confines of moral economy would n't , would n't have been tt erm reducing rents , it was done on a much more , more personal sort of scale . |
| 7 | ‘ What am I supposed to have been looking for ? ’ |
| 8 | We heard today they were supposed to have been getting engaged to er a seventy year old woman ! |
| 9 | Who 's , the one who 's supposed to have been getting engaged to son , and they call him David . |
| 10 | ‘ Search for what , since you 're not after all the heroin , or whatever I 'm supposed to have been ferrying around the islands for a week ? ’ |
| 11 | Tony was supposed to have been singing in a Black Sabbath ‘ reunion ’ in the States , which did n't happen for him in the end , but that gave us some breathing space . |
| 12 | Indeed feuds with these families had been part of the staple political diet of the early twelfth-century Dukes , though neither Eleanor 's father nor grandfather can be supposed to have been introducing " Anglo-Norman methods of government " . |
| 13 | No but we were supposed to have been playing in er where was it ? |
| 14 | So we swapped addresses with er , ca n't remember , it was a man middle-aged sort of man and er he then said ooh , well he said I still think that we were in the right in as much as if that policeman was supposed to have been directing traffic blah blah blah blah blah ! |
| 15 | ‘ Like most of the estate staff who were supposed to have been keeping the place straight . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , I do n't know , ’ he very nearly snaps , happy to have been talking about piano playing , pissed off he might have to resume a celebrity chat . |
| 17 | ‘ It really is a bit strange to have been arguing the merits of ERM membership in academic abstraction , when the practical effects are there for all to see . |