Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And these were the very works , The Golden Bough , Welker Psychologie which Freud 's contemporaries would have been reading in English and German . |
| 2 | It was held that Williams was not guilty , since had the facts been as he believed them to be , he would have been acting in defence of the other . |
| 3 | In other words , what would appear to be required is some awareness on the part of the defendant that he was making the task of the police a more difficult one , and this element may have been lacking in Willmott v. Atack , which would explain why the appeal was allowed . |
| 4 | What we appear to have here is a system where the structure of intervention , as displayed in the file data in other areas , bears only an indirect relationship to what actually happened in Team D. ( The specialist worker in Team C may have been operating in ways that in some respects are not wholly dissimilar , but the approach of the specialist team would seem radically different ) . |
| 5 | Ferguson 's promise was more praiseworthy than pondering how much Germany might have been holding in reserve . |
| 6 | By 1815 the canals may have been carrying in excess of 10 million tons of coal , not only more cheaply — on average coal prices ( and those of other bulky materials ) fell by between 50 and 70 per cent in larger urban centres with the opening of a canal — but also over an extended reach . |
| 7 | All those changes must have been happening in parallel with these other ones . |
| 8 | If the City chairman had sacked Mel Machin to bring in a John Bond or Malcolm Allison then heads really would have been shaking in wonderment at another Peter Swales masterstroke . |
| 9 | And he must have been testin' in part fur flight refuellin' because Rodriguez says in his book he was refuelled somewhere over the Bellingshausen Sea , which is a long way west of the area where Sunderby lost his life . ’ |
| 10 | Bill was with Boots the Chemist , and may have been working in Peterborough when Kathleen was with us — I ca n't remember . |
| 11 | If greed were his motivation , Wilco Zeelenberg could well have been racing in Rothmans Honda or Lucky Strike Suzuki colours this season . |
| 12 | She was discussing problems in Lee 's living-room but she could have been standing in front of a giant black door in the middle of a forest . |
| 13 | If I 'd been the archer , I thought , I would have been waiting in position , crouched and camouflaged , endlessly patient , arrow notched on bow . |
| 14 | The nursing home to which her husband has her committed after her eccentricity has become dangerous , and from which she and the other residents are eventually ejected to be cared for by an amorphous ‘ community ’ , might have been lying in wait for her from the day she was born . |
| 15 | ‘ Tom might have been talking in jest a while back , but there 's nothing to say you wo n't have another family between the two of you . |
| 16 | The other women , Debbie and her friends , would have been shopping in Newbury or Hungerford , run round the boutiques , for something careless and suitable . |
| 17 | But what would she have been doing in Southwark ? |