Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that other disaffected Anglian elements also gave assistance and it would be surprising if no help had been forthcoming from the men of Powys , who can not have been unaffected by Aethelfrith 's victory at Chester and the recent warfare between the northern Angles and the king of Gwynedd . |
| 2 | Carew 's bleak diagnosis can hardly have been uninfluenced by several decades of mounting concern at the impermanence of non-agricultural employment compared with the stability of farmers fully occupied tending their land , and men continuously employed as servants in husbandry engaged for a year at a time . |
| 3 | Whether or not the Communist Party leaders expected such a letter to have anything more than a propaganda appeal they can hardly have been surprised by the Labour Party reply on 27 January 1936 which rejected the application and outlined the history of relations between the two parties , particularly during the social fascist " period . |
| 4 | Labour shortage could also have been relieved by longer hours of work . |
| 5 | She might also have been incensed by the negative portrayal of homosexuality in the movie . |
| 6 | Howard might well have been impressed by the importance given to classification by TDC , despite the fact that it seems to be unfashionable in western European administrations . |
| 7 | Allegations of treason were made concerning the loss of lands in France , a matter which may have particularly concerned the Kentishmen , whose vulnerability to raids was obvious , and who may well have been alarmed by the issue of a commission of array , and a command to set up warning beacons , on 14 April . |
| 8 | The , possibly , stodgy readers of the Sunday Telegraph may well have been surprised by Susannah Herbert 's enthusiasm : ‘ Jilly Cooper breaks all the rules of romantic fiction in The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous . |
| 9 | The Ariadne carried an immense and , to the uninitiated , quite bewildering variety of looking and listening instruments that may well have been unmatched by any naval ship afloat . |
| 10 | The theme of the poems was hardly a happy one ; Coleridge was now frequently ill with complaints which , though genuine enough , must surely have been complicated by psychosomatic factors . |
| 11 | But , despite Einhard 's assertion that he loved barbarian poems , he would surely have been disconcerted by the evolution of the Poitevin court under William IX as a centre of troubadour poetry , its prince as the most distinguished poet of all . |
| 12 | Lewis might almost have been amused by the exchanges thus far , were it not for the heavy burden of the news he was bearing . |
| 13 | Bismarck must indeed have been impressed by this example of family loyalty . |
| 14 | Thus , the Scottish Law Commission in para 5:23 of their Memorandum 25 , observed that s62(4) : … is of importance since the introduction of the rule that property in sale might pass without delivery would otherwise have been possible by resort to transactions in the form of sale to circumvent the rule that a security over moveables may not generally be constituted without transfer to them . |
| 15 | The virtuous Scottish doctor would certainly have been shocked by our modern profligacy . |