Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adj] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Baker appointed him without interview because he had been impressed by Professor Stubbs 's publications on the importance of knowledge about language . |
| 2 | Even Jenny — clever , perceptive Jenny — had been impressed by Damian Flint , had found him apparently irresistible , staying up till early morning with him , discussing love ; and how that galled her , how it angered her . |
| 3 | The Republicans had been impressed by Major 's election victory in April , felt there were useful lessons to be learned and invited two political advisers . |
| 4 | The first time , Dalgliesh had been impressed by Massingham 's intelligence and enormous capacity for work , and by his admirable ability to keep his mouth shut and to sense when his chief wanted to be alone . |
| 5 | Indeed , the measure of the difficulty they were in can be seen in their own statement of 6 August in defence of their lack of achievement , made on the very day they had been disappointed by Cecil 's letter ; for Knox was inscribing a letter from Argyll and lord James to Sir James Croft , captain of Berwick , saying that they were ‘ sorry to be judged slow , negligent and cold in our proceedings … . |
| 6 | If Gould had been disappointed by Sydney , he was amazed by Adelaide . |
| 7 | He describes lodging in the beautifully furnished house of a respectable widow with artistic tastes , who had been impoverished by inflation . |
| 8 | In most cases they did not go far or , if they did , the paths from their region to the city had been well-trodden by kinsmen and neighbours , like the hawkers and seasonal building workers who had long been in the habit of coming up to Paris from central France , whose numbers grew with the constructional work of Paris until , after 1870 , they turned from seasonal into permanent migrants . |
| 9 | He admitted that some people in Hong Kong had been alarmed by reports of carnage in Peking but said this was only because they ‘ misunderstood ’ or had been misled by the ‘ false reporting and even rumour of some news media ’ . |
| 10 | Even his colleagues had been alarmed by James Harding 's confused state of mind , and had persuaded him to seek medical help . |
| 11 | In addition , China had been pleased by leadership changes approved by the congress , in particular the removal of Nguyen Co Thach and Mai Chi Tho from the politburo . |
| 12 | She had been shocked by Maria Luisa 's tragic countenance at the window but this was so much worse . |
| 13 | Ever since childhood , while talking to the very old , she had been frightened by visions of herself attacking , hitting , assaulting , knocking off their glasses . |
| 14 | He had watched the tape of Ari 's meeting with him and had been satisfied by Tammuz' reaction . |
| 15 | Blackberry , the rabbit with tipped ears who had been startled by Fiver the night before , had listened carefully to Hazel 's description of the notice board , remarking that he had always felt sure that men left these things about to act as signs or messages of some kind , in the same way that rabbits left marks on runs and gaps . |
| 16 | Mr Bérégovoy's's friends claim he had been horrified by accusations of impropriety in accepting an interest-free loan of FFr1m ( $190,000 ) from a shady business friend , who was later charged with insider trading . |
| 17 | There had been no war in Europe between Britain and any continental power since the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo a century earlier , when the scale and power of armaments had been puny by comparison to those available in the early 1900s . |
| 18 | I had been thrilled by Rider Haggard 's stories about the Zulus , especially Nada the Lily in which Mbopo , the blind witchdoctor , tells of the rise and death of Chaka whom he helped to murder . |
| 19 | Mr Parfitt 's brother , Phil , confirmed that his wife had been worried by cancer scares — but had been given the all-clear . |
| 20 | Just an hour or so earlier , many demonstrators had been worried by rumours that the workers ' militia might open fire on the crowds . |
| 21 | The Warwickshire jurors , on being asked on what authority they had returned that ten townships ‘ with their woods , wastes and fields ’ had been afforested by King John , and that in 1154 there had been no royal forest in their county , replied that they knew by what their ancestors had related and by the common talk of the country . |
| 22 | In Rutland the jurors swore on 25 July that a great part of the county had been afforested by Henry II , though there is evidence that this had been done by Henry I. Subsequent returns for Leicestershire , Nottinghamshire and Somerset also demanded extensive disafforestments . |
| 23 | In the winter of 1981–2 , at the time of the Crosby by-election , the Conservatives had been terrified by SDP threats to their support in south and east England and suburbia generally . |
| 24 | She had found it in them perhaps more securely than in the friends she had made in other colleges , with whom her relationships had been complicated by sex . |
| 25 | Relations with Transkei , where de Klerk urged a return to civilian rule , had been complicated by Holomisa 's allegations that two men arrested on Dec. 29 , 1989 , had been South African agents on a mission to kill him . |
| 26 | The dispute had been complicated by tension between the federal Czechoslovak government and the Slovak government , the main advocate of the project . |
| 27 | Rose , who had n't any recollection of the Leesons , had been surprised by Jane Leeson 's expression when she had walked into the shop . |
| 28 | They were persons who had been brain-washed by years of experience of disengaging from colonies and saw Northern Ireland as another external colony from which Great Britain was destined to disengage in order to hand it back to the natives whom they assumed were the republican Irish of the island as a whole . |
| 29 | Whereas science had been unstained by cruelty , hands in the Vatican had been steeped in blood . |
| 30 | Prof Alderslade said Trent Regional Health Authority had been appalled by Allitt 's crimes , and pledged that the parents would be fully informed of the inquiry 's findings . |