Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Holyfield took over and made grandad-bashing respectable on the heavyweight scene , those young lions who ought to have been clawing each other for the right to depose and expose him have been harmlessly shadow boxing around each other . |
| 2 | This is reasonable , as one would expect deaf people in the USA to have been using some sign language before the imported use of FSL . |
| 3 | Ms Harris ought to have been preaching this to her clients and taking note of it herself . |
| 4 | But the market seems to have been generating some big increases for certain quite junior City people — notably in foreign exchange and swaps . |
| 5 | People seemed to have been disappearing all the afternoon , one after another . |
| 6 | Thus planning permission had been granted ( on 22 December 1975 , close enough to Christmas for no-one to have been paying much attention ) and the period for appealing the planning permission was past before local residents discovered that Raybestos Manhattan would be processing and emitting asbestos , a highly toxic pollutant and confirmed mass killer . |
| 7 | Almost at once Ruth felt as if she were sliding into a dream ; the glade vanished behind them , and soon she seemed to have been walking this path all her life , through the vista of trees , with the tip of Fand 's spear faintly gleaming , and Adam ahead of her , treading like a king . |