Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [verb] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a young man , probably no more than twenty ; his teeth were worn down to the stumps by rough ground corn , the tops so sliced through they might have been cut with a circular saw and the resulting surface polished with emery paper . |
| 2 | The Zuccarelli recordings so far demonstrated could well have been made with a simple dummy head , incorporating reflectors or circuits to emphasise this effect . |
| 3 | He suggests , for example , that instead of making a care order an interim care order should have been made with a view to reviewing the progress of rehabilitation in six or nine months time . |
| 4 | He may also have been hit with a rifle butt afterwards.Joan Mann told the hearing that she understood there were several traitors in the Croat camp . |
| 5 | Of the pin placing at the 466-yard ninth , where the 144-strong field were a collective 114 over par , Woosnam said : ‘ Whoever did it must have been born with a spanner in his head . ’ |
| 6 | At first it was thought the men may have been stabbed with a broken pool cue . |
| 7 | And fifteen minutes later , with all the completed questionnaires returned , there was good reason to suppose that Morse could be right , since three of those concerned , Eddie Stratton , Howard Brown , and John Ashenden , appeared temporarily unable to provide corroboration of their individual whereabouts and activities during the key period of the previous afternoon — the afternoon when the original groups , three of them , had been re-formed slightly ( following Kemp 's telephone call ) , and when anyone wishing to absent himself for some purpose would have been presented with a wonderful opportunity so to do . |
| 8 | The existence of possible bilingual wordplay within the poem — fol and con — suggests that Dame Sirith may have been composed with a bilingual audience in mind , but it does not match the features of the Anglo-Norman fabliaux identified by van den Boogard . |
| 9 | He put them in central midfield — and he would have been rewarded with a vital home win but for Gary Speed 's late equaliser . |
| 10 | The seduction scene afterwards must have been done with an eye for the main chance , before the opportunity disappeared … |
| 11 | This obviously is n't to say that the same response would not have been achieved with a centesimal potency , it merely demonstrates the applicability of LM 's in an acute and the simplicity of repetition . |
| 12 | However , even with this unpromising start , more could possibly have been achieved with a leadership less trapped in its own class origins . |
| 13 | Although it is sold under that name it will have been replaced with a pigment or dye colourant . |
| 14 | And yet that part of the interview could have been dismissed with a laugh in five seconds . |
| 15 | Saturday was sunny and bright , and any claim that the match would be settled by tomorrow evening would have been dismissed with a scornful cackle . |
| 16 | Dad may not have been endowed with a surplus of brain-matter , but he was no fool . |
| 17 | They may have been written with a wider audience in mind and are therefore easier to read than , for example , some of the accounting standards . |
| 18 | It was certainly better than the sandwich and a can of beer that she 'd expected ; if this had been the late and unlamented Eddie she 'd probably have been faced with a walk to the nearest carry-out to find that he 'd finished off the beer in her absence . |
| 19 | The explosions may have been linked with a particularly violent six-week strike by railway workers in which seven people have died . |
| 20 | I mean what else what what sort of size pension fund would you have been negotiating with a a business ? |
| 21 | These will have been issued with a fixed redemption value and we must assume that the holder calculated that this would give him a return equal or similar to alternative returns currently available . |
| 22 | They were as follows : ( 1 ) there is a dispute or a difference between the parties which has been formulated in some way or other ( see 15.5 ) ; ( 2 ) the dispute or difference has been remitted by the parties to the person to resolve in such a manner that he is called on to exercise a judicial function ( see 15.6 ) ; ( 3 ) where appropriate , the parties must have been provided with an opportunity to present evidence and/or submissions in support of their respective claims in the dispute ( see 15.7 ) ; and ( 4 ) the parties have agreed to accept his decision ( see 15.8 ) . |
| 23 | This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick . |
| 24 | The ultimate source is Sir John Hawkins , who remarks , in what appears to be a personal recollection , that Handel had ‘ a favourite Rucker harpsichord , the keys whereof , by incessant practise , were hollowed like the bowl of a spoon ’ In justice to Hawkins it must be stated that he does have a reputation for being , for his time , a careful scholar , so it is unfortunate that this brief , almost casual remark , should have been embellished with a little fanciful romancing that appears to be added only to enliven his text with some colourful anecdote . |
| 25 | These would originally have been topped with a fence of dead wood or a live hedge to keep the animals out . |
| 26 | All of their problems could have been solved with a few simple decisions but they seemed to have been robbed of their ability to think straight . ’ |