Example sentences of "have been [verb] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the evidence could not have been obtained with reasonable diligence at the trial ; and |
| 2 | By re-amended notice of appeal dated 30 August 1991 the defendants sought an order to set aside or vary the judge 's order or to order a retrial and sought leave to adduce fresh evidence on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge had erred in law in failing to take into account ( a ) the lack of a penal notice on the order which it was claimed that the appellants had breached ; and ( b ) the plaintiff 's delay of 18 months in applying for the committal order ; ( 2 ) that the judge 's decision was arrived at without regard to fresh evidence which the defendants had obtained since the hearing , part of which related to matters subsequent to the hearing and the remainder of which could not have been obtained with reasonable diligence ; which , if given , would probably have had an important influence on the result , which was credible and which should , therefore , be admitted ; ( 3 ) that , alternatively , the court should exercise its discretion to admit the fresh evidence as the liberty of the defendants was at risk ; and ( 4 ) that the sentence imposed was excessive . |
| 3 | I have no doubt that dedicated woodturners everywhere would scoff at the idea of engineers ' lathes being used for woodturners , but when I think of the various moulds and patterns I have made over the years with comparative ease but which due to their intricacies could only have been made with extreme difficulty on a wood lathe — if at all . |
| 4 | Antigliadin antibody concentrations were measured in 17 patients and the question arises if the diagnosis of coeliac disease could have been made with these results alone . |
| 5 | ‘ When we had ascended a little more than half-way , I was much afraid we should have been doomed to return , on account of the masses of rock , over which we had to climb , beginning to increase in size ; we knew , however , that a descent would have been attended with infinite danger , and being urged on partly by eagerness in our pursuit , but more from a desire to be at the top , we determined to brave every difficulty . |
| 6 | Any attack on Beaumaris would have been presented with formidable problems . |
| 7 | The Frenchman 's exceptional talents might have been rewarded with two goals in the first half here in the Neckarstadion . |
| 8 | Yeah , I mean , it could have been done with real honesty , but |
| 9 | The rationale behind the exposure draft is that the auditors may be improperly pressurised into adopting the opinion the outside firm has given , and that this opinion may have been given with inadequate knowledge of the circumstances . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Again , what little space there was between the two lids might also have been packed with powdered charcoal . |
| 12 | Family prayers must have been said with particular fervour that night but it was n't only the dramatic episode that drove Ella Burrows to her knees . |
| 13 | He 'd have been undertaking with this man . |
| 14 | Such a far reaching change could ultimately only have been achieved with general Kikuyu support . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The original Theatres Act 1968 exemption may well have been devised with obscene plays in mind where the editorial judgment of the director may well be decisive . |
| 17 | I think it extremely likely that the plaintiff would have followed the inevitable recommendation from its officers which would have been to proceed with this action in order to avoid paying compensation . |
| 18 | The two books may thus have been peppered with little fictions , but no sharper or livelier pictures of Mughal Delhi , with all its scandals , dramas and intrigues , have come down to us . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Johnson took this latter and soon ‘ began to wish that our curiosity might have been gratified with less trouble and danger ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ If he had walked away we would have been left with 11 men to their 10 . ’ |
| 23 | They divided local government services in such a way that most of the major services including education , major planning , personal social services and housing would have gone to the regional authorities while the districts would have been left with minor aspects of these services and certain amenity services . |
| 24 | Really , they should have been equipped with special badges : ‘ Kiss Me , I 'm a C2 ’ . |
| 25 | Travel to and from work may have been combined with other activities , or with a knowledge of other activities going on around them . |
| 26 | Again , it was bad enough to have a surge associated with high spring tides , but it could have been associated with equinoctial springs seven weeks later with even more disastrous results . |
| 27 | Arguably , the information skills shown in this chapter may have been associated with manual retrieval systems . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Both the ‘ Fine Rose ’ and the ‘ Superior Rose fully trimmed ’ would have been provided with buttoned rosettes , similar to those shown on a late nineteenth-century shroud in the Castle Museum , York . |
| 30 | From the seventeenth until the early nineteenth century , parish records suggest that over one-half of widows would normally have been provided with regular pensions on the rates ; and still more remarkable , when compared with working-class incomes , these pensions were twice as good as those offered by state pensions today ( see Fig. 1 ) . |