Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [be] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Where Morpurgo 's left eye should have been was only a sickening fold of flesh .
2 Where the tongue should have been was a rag of skin .
3 George , of Southdale Road , Wavertree , Liverpool , said today : ‘ I felt a sharp pain and thought I must have been been stung .
4 What might have been is neither here nor there .
5 ‘ … and the moral of that [ said the Duchess ] is — ‘ Be what you would seem to be ’ — or , if you 'd like it put more simply — ‘ Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise .
6 Now to place this manor and house , first I believe the only place this could have been is Upper Haillng , and the house is now what is known as Court Farm , the present residence of Mr Peter Lingham .
7 The only person it could have been was Kerry .
8 To ensure that any capital she may have is being invested wisely .
9 I may have been being a bit selfish , but I could n't bear to lose him in that way , and he seemed to be making such an effort himself , not ever putting weight on that leg and eating as much as he could .
10 I mean I may have been being a bit naive as a general sort of , just a rep within NALGO , I 'm not I 'm not , although I 've had all the publicity , and yes I 'm , sometimes you do not the course .
11 A Labour movement looking to the 1990s would have been been debating single union , no-strike deals and profit-related payment systems rather than how best to call strikes and whether a system of labour tribunals was needed to compensate for the supposed bias of the capitalist courts .
12 Even the WBC , the governing body that insist they 'll now give their title to Lewis , would have been been appeased by such a compromise .
13 I would have been been less chance of me doing that if I felt depressed .
14 One conclusion is that Vietnam could have been a proud success , and would have been were it not for , e.g. , the political constraints on the military .
15 If the probe moves along a radius with , then For simplicity it can be imagined that the probe would have been be at rest if it had started at an infinite distance from the hole ; then the kinetic energy parameter T vanishes and the equation reduces further to where , as usual , .
16 The established actor whose plays they ought to have been was out-manoeuvred .
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