Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [vb pp] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | When they finally appear , they turn out — in what for this play amounts to a considerable comic twist — to have been fitted with the wrong plug . |
2 | The film appears to have been shot with the favoured European approach to sound — filming it silent and post-dubbing all the dialogue . |
3 | The figures of the Roman war potential ( which is what men of military age means ) ought to have been compared with the Carthaginian war potential , but Polybius never does that . |
4 | The magistrate would also appear to have been infected with the same cheerful disposition : even allowing for the ravages of inflation , a ten shillings fine is a somewhat less than draconian response to a charge of pushing a policeman 's head through a shop window . |
5 | The whole school seemed to have been designed with the sole purpose of freezing all the pupils to death . |