Example sentences of "impressed by " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was impressed by the care given to our clients in London and elsewhere , ’ explained Peter , ‘ and the lengths to which ACET staff go to try and meet the needs of clients . |
| 2 | I was particularly impressed by the way you managed to organise all the available services so efficiently — just at the time when we were beginning to wonder how we 'd manage . ’ |
| 3 | Incidentally , the good art critic should be the reader 's friend in refusing to be impressed by art market prices . |
| 4 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 5 | Although an agent may be very impressed by the talent he sees , there are practical difficulties which affect how much agents can do for young actors . |
| 6 | Mr Clancy was not impressed by this scientific distraction , and said so . |
| 7 | The British production company Zenith were so impressed by Hal Hartley 's first feature that they signed him up to make TRUST , which we will be screening at the festival . |
| 8 | I was very impressed by them , how to approach them . |
| 9 | I then drafted a statement for the management side and sent it by hand to Mellowes who was sufficiently impressed by this initiative to pop his head around the door an hour later with a look of something less than mistrust . |
| 10 | They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse . |
| 11 | Equally regrettably , they suggest that she who ( presumably ) approved them is not so much a Pharisee as a Philistine : one , moreover , who has been impressed by too many drives down The Bishop 's Avenue , where Hampstead 's temples to new money are built , en route to the Finchley constituency . |
| 12 | I have been extremely impressed by the professionalism of the Jockey Club . ’ |
| 13 | But they would be impressed by you winning the order of merit — especially in Ryder Cup year . ’ |
| 14 | When working for Reuters , a colleague revealed that their boss had been impressed by his hobby . |
| 15 | Analysts Alan Marshall and Christine Baker are impressed by the 20-well drilling programme for next year . |
| 16 | Unlike most other musicians , he did not seem to have been impressed by Louis Armstrong 's seminal appearance at the London Palladium in 1932 . |
| 17 | As I spoke to Chauvet and several other Commandos scattered around the orchard , I was impressed by their determination to stay here in France , no matter what . |
| 18 | I was impressed by Lovat 's manner during the landing , on the beach under fire , and especially at the crossroads as he stood and directed the attack on the village of Amfreville . |
| 19 | Older people were much more impressed by politicians ' energy than were younger people . |
| 20 | The first pair of real hiking boots I ever had were Daisy Roots and I 've always been impressed by their comfort . |
| 21 | I was impressed by the good adhesion and grip of the Vibram soles , performing well even in wet and slippery conditions . |
| 22 | Eliot , who was putting ‘ Tartar horsemen ’ in his poetry in 1924 , seems to have been impressed by this passage . |
| 23 | He was familiar with Pound 's writing on Japanese drama , and had been impressed by the first performance of At the Hawk 's Well when he had seen a well-known Japanese dancer take the role of the hawk . |
| 24 | The more one looks back on the record the more one is impressed by the role of Mrs Thatcher as a dominant figure and as an illustration of the power of the Prime Minister . |
| 25 | In both British Coal and British Steel I have been enormously impressed by the ability and dedication of my colleagues , particularly when one recognises the totally inadequate rewards they receive in comparison with their opposite numbers in the private sector . |
| 26 | the friars discovered that the Indians were deeply impressed by sacred images created with the newest artistic techniques brought from the Old World … |
| 27 | Until we came to the Furka I 'd been impressed by the Spirit R/T , surprised by the agility of its handling , the sensitivity and accuracy of its power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering , the breadth of the uninterrupted acceleration from its powerful turbocharged engine , the lightness of the controls and the quality of the gearchange . |
| 28 | During the practice , Prost had been impressed by both the McLaren and the Williams and his worst fears were confirmed as Senna pulled inexorably away and the multi-coloured Williams of Nigel Mansell began to move about in Prost 's mirrors . |
| 29 | Scanning the interior , I was impressed by the high quality of the trim and dash . |
| 30 | They had lived in Holland for twenty years and had been much impressed by Dutch conversions of barns into dwellings which tend to be more simple , ‘ scrubbed ’ and ‘ puritanical ’ than the often over-elaborate treatment that is applied to British projects . |