Example sentences of "[adv] have been [vb pp] with [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implicit complaint is that many British insurers would not have been saddled with these claims if US law and regulation had not been retrospectively changed . |
| 2 | The problem of fascist sympathies among the ranks of MI5 at the outset of the war is entirely ignored , as is the removal in 1940 of its founder and director , Sir Vernon Kell , which may or may not have been connected with that issue . |
| 3 | Important as was the consciousness of self-government , the fueros would not have been defended with such obstinacy had they not conferred substantial economic advantages , designed originally to favour poor frontier provinces . |
| 4 | The pioneering work of these men provided a bedrock of knowledge and experience without which the later railway system could not have been constructed with such astonishing speed . |
| 5 | You must think I 'm absolutely barking just to have been sat with this in front of me and not done anything about it . |
| 6 | It was impossible not to feel that she had been badly treated , but the bad treatment came from the intransigent doctors and not from a Prime Minister who , as she must have known , was immensely supportive and would not willingly have been associated with any slight on her . |
| 7 | People are forever knocking the National Health Service — I admit I am not myself guiltless in this — but we could n't have been treated with more consideration . |