Example sentences of "[to-vb] [been] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This restriction ensures that section 87 can not be exploited , that there will be no difficulty in identifying a genuine successor and that only bona fide claims to have been residing with the tenant shall succeed . |
| 2 | In fact , ever since the beginning of the year you seem to have been toying with the idea of making a major career move or change of residence and what transpires sometimes between October 29 and November 3 should enable you to rebuild and reshape your life — and the past with all its traumas and dramas will be placed in their true perspective , if not forgotten altogether . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | Architects are said to have been prowling on the island incognito gathering intelligence for their mission . |
| 5 | Above all , use was made of the great lake in front of the palace , the famous Étang des Carpes , where some of the fish were reputed to have been swimming since the days of Francis I. All sorts of pleasure boats were at the disposal of the guests , ranging from a Venetian gondola to a miniature frigate of the French navy — the latter the pride and joy of the Prince Imperial . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He seemed to have been moving for an immeasurable time . |
| 8 | The new presumption of guilt is most explicit in the 1985 Wildlife and Countryside Act : ‘ If , in any proceedings for an offence , there is evidence from which it could reasonably be concluded that the accused was digging for a badger , he shall be presumed to have been digging for a badger unless the contrary is shown . ’ |
| 9 | Despite the widespread feeling that there had been a victory for parental rights , many of the Dewsbury parents claimed to have been acting for the sake of their children . |
| 10 | On the other hand , the agent does not have to have been acting within the ordinary course of his own particular business or even within the normal course of business of his particular type of trade . |
| 11 | Boucheron , who had been suspended from the PS at his own request in October 1990 , claimed to have been acting in the interests of the party . |
| 12 | Their clothes were an abrasive barrier between them , and her hands were as urgent as his as she peeled off the same black dress she seemed to have been wearing for the past century . |
| 13 | To marry by certificate the couple need to have been living in the district for seven days before applying . |
| 14 | Although he had been fortunate to have been sitting at the back of the coach he received a fractured spine . |
| 15 | The heaviest copper head from Ife weighs almost 7 kg so the Ife smiths seem to have been working at the limits of this technique . |
| 16 | ‘ Mr C S Jones ( Lab ) , Leicester NW — Will the Government now publish the report on which Mr S J L Summerchild is known to have been working at the time of his death ? — The report has already been published as Cmnd. 4078 . ’ |
| 17 | With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The gunman is believed to have been waiting for the women and chidren to come out of the shop . |
| 20 | A man answering a description of Magee , who was knee-capped in Northern Ireland several years ago , was said to have been lagging behind the two terrorists as they ran from their gold-coloured Ford Granada getaway car , which they had abandoned in Charnwood Street , Derby , minutes after the shooting on Monday evening . |
| 21 | She claimed to have been shopping with a boyfriend at the time . |