Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] been [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I remembered too the guns they 'd shown me , with the barrels roughly brazed to patch holes that had been blasted-out by home-made bullets too misshapen to find a smooth passage through when the gun was fired . |
| 2 | The government is hoping for a vote of confidence in the elections , and has been dismayed by the support the Front appears to be getting . |
| 3 | It is working closely with HSE , and has been impressed by the progress made since 1974 in moving towards a much more thorough understanding of the real reasons for major breaches of safety , and of how to make them less likely . |
| 4 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Apparently Mr Baker had met him on a social occasion , and had been impressed by his traditionalist views . |
| 7 | Mosley himself admired Lloyd George 's qualities of leadership and had been impressed by his energy and administrative skills at the Ministry of Munitions from 1915 to 1916 . |
| 8 | He had enjoyed a trial with Middlesbrough and had been impressed by the set-up . |
| 9 | He had been interested in tramps since childhood — ' I love a public road' ; he had read Crabbe 's description of a workhouse at school and had been shocked by the confinement of the mentally ill ‘ inasmuch as idiots and lunatics among the humbler classes of society were not to be found in Workhouses — in the parts of the North where I was brought up , — but were mostly at large ’ . |
| 10 | He had even been rather touched by The Rat Jacket , that last flare of Cameron 's talent , and had been amused by the author 's recreation of his Hugh Farnham persona as the intellectual , bullying cop . |
| 11 | He had watched the tape of Ari 's meeting with him and had been satisfied by Tammuz' reaction . |
| 12 | The Friends of the Lake District feel that these developments are ‘ obstructive in the landscape ’ and have been incensed by the Marina which is right on the Bowness shore of Lake Windermere . |
| 13 | That uncertainty , acknowledged by Watkins L.J. , should , it is submitted , have provided a powerful reason for the Court of Appeal to allow the applicant to have a judgment by the court on the unresolved points , particularly as they had been previously argued before but had been unanswered by the court . |
| 14 | The MP for Darlington said that the matter had been investigated and dealt with satisfactorily , but had been confused by the media . |
| 15 | ‘ I expected to see a lot of back play but have been surprised by the lack of it , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Sitting by her bedroom window later that night , Laura lectured herself for having been so naïve as to have been upset by the remarks he had originally made on the dance-floor . |