Example sentences of "[was/were] excited by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seismic waves were excited by a vertical point impulse of 7 x10 18 dyns ( ref. 15 ) . |
| 2 | The US gunners were excited by the targets and even fired on some US aircraft flying to Ford Island from the Enterprise — several were shot down unfortunately . |
| 3 | Crookes took up Faraday 's work on the passage of electricity through gases , and was excited by a passage in an early lecture of Faraday 's where he had speculated that there might be a ‘ fourth state of matter ’ simpler than the gaseous , just as gases are simpler than liquids ; they all expand alike when heated , for example . |
| 4 | He was excited by the ferocious vitality and darting breadth of reference of the work , and secretly , personally , he was rather pleased that all this had been achieved out of so peaceable , so unruffled a private existence . |
| 5 | Unlike Pete he smelled nice — Sally thought it was Old Spice — and when he pressed his hips against hers she was excited by the sensations it aroused , not revolted as she had been with the Teddy Boy at the youth club dance . |
| 6 | Once , out at Scheveningen , he was excited by the wind lashing the sea into a fine rage . |
| 7 | But the Founders ' vote for Manchester was also supported by Walsh , who was excited by the possibilities of fund-raising from the northern councils . |
| 8 | He was excited by the troubadours , who wrote endlessly varied repetitions of inventive metaphors for love , pain , service . |
| 9 | Theresa was excited by the news and told Maureen that she had sent Eileen two tablets of scented soap and a box of dusting powder with a swansdown puff . |
| 10 | There can be little doubt that Picasso was excited by the work that Braque brought back to Paris from l'Estaque in which he was drawing such original answers from the questions he had been putting to Cézanne 's art . |