Table 1. Number of examples per 100,000 words
Text type	‰ … of words	… of exx	… of exx per 100,000 words
Comedy		200,000		258		129
Diary		200,000		124		62.0
(Diary)		(200,000)	(168)		(84.0)
Letter		100,000		116		116.0
 
The figures within brackets indicate what the figures would have been if 
Josselin's diary had yielded 56 examples, i.e. a number similar to that of 
the other diarists. The hypothetical figure is given to point out the fact 
that Pepys and Evelyn as well as Josselin yielded fewer examples than the 
other writers. See Table 2.
 
 

 
Table 2. The text types and authors
		… exx	… be	%be	… have	%have
Comedies	258	211	82%	47	18%
Congreve	50	36	72%	14	28%
Etheredge	60	51	85%	9	15%
Farquhar	50	41	82%	9	18%
Vanbrugh	44	35	80%	9	20%
Wycherley	54	48	89%	6	11%
Diaries		124	106	85%	18	15%
Evelyn		55	47	85%	8	15%
Josselin	12	12	100%	0	0%
Pepys		57	47	82%	10	18%
Letters		116	80	69%	36	31%
Lyme		25	19	76%	6	24%
Prideaux	57	38	67%	19	33%
Russell		34	23	68%	11	32%
 
 

 
Table 3. Diachronic development
		… exx	… be	%be	… have	%have
1660-1669	104	87	84%	17	16%
1670-1679	146	121	83%	25	17%
1680-1689	101	75	74%	26	26%
1690-1699	102	80	78%	22	22%
1700-1709	45	34	76%	11	24%
 
 

 
Table 4. The factors
		…exx 	… be	 %be 	… have 	%have
+ING		47	40	85%	7	15%
+PI		34	17	50%	17	50%
+MOD		21	8	38%	13	62%
+PI & -MOD	13	9	69%	4	31%
+PAST		88	60	68%	28	32%
-PAST		331	279	84%	52	16%
+REC		67	65	97%	2	3%
+NEG		31	17	55%	14	45%
+COND		29	7	24%	22	76%

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