Example sentences of "[been] [verb] with a [adv] " in BNC.

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1	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 .
2	Evolutionary geomorphology has been used with a very different connotation by Thornes ( 1983b ) and this is introduced in chapter 8 ( p. 182 ) .
3	Mr Goldring said Miss Lowe had been injected with a very large amount of insulin .
4	Everybody 's attention was on the centre of the room , where the IMC logo had been replaced with a densely written virtual document .
5	After exclusion of patients with known causes of their ulcer disease , H pylori infection has been detected with a much higher frequency of 96% in subgroups with idiopathic gastric ulcers , which is equivalent to the H pylori prevalence in duodenal ulcer disease .
6	Although he 'd never been blessed with a particularly vivid imagination , Charlie saw it all in an instant .
7	The prospects would have been even brighter if only Russia had been blessed with a less benighted tsar .
8	No administration has been more conscious of the political power of TV or , Kennedy apart , been blessed with a more gifted exploiter of the medium as president .
9	The explosions may have been linked with a particularly violent six-week strike by railway workers in which seven people have died .
10	And had the latter been the case , Churchill , almost his only substantial political ally of 1936 , would in 1940 have been confronted with a very awkward decision as to whether to intern his sovereign .

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