Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vine is unimportant , but how and why its cultivation still persists in Champagne must be fascinating to anyone who has ever been intrigued by the curiously eclectic attitude to rules and regulations often displayed by the French . |
| 2 | Alain has always been intrigued by your colouring . ’ |
| 3 | The issue has also been complicated by legislation making artificial fluoridation compulsory . |
| 4 | Jim Payne has also been surprised by the standard of putting . |
| 5 | But now she admitted that she 'd simply been unaffected by them . |
| 6 | It had all been stage-managed by the Mossad . |
| 7 | The attackers had obviously been surprised by the ferocity of their defence . |
| 8 | The Grand National course narrows approaching the winning post and bends round to the left immediately after , and with crowds manically screaming at him in the stands and on both rails and directly in front of him it would hardly be surprising if Devon Loch had suddenly been startled by the deafening noise . |
| 9 | She had lately been excited by reports of the exhibition at Bullock 's Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly , London , of Monsieur Jerricault 's Great Picture , 24 feet long by 18 feet high , representing the Surviving Crew of the Medusa French Frigate on the Raft . |
| 10 | I 've always been intrigued by the Catholic church , by all the colours and the candles , but I know so little about it … when we studied existentialism in high school , I felt that that was exactly right , but now I just do n't know … |
| 11 | The first pair of real hiking boots I ever had were Daisy Roots and I 've always been impressed by their comfort . |
| 12 | Bernard had always been intrigued by the possibilities of photography — Cartier-Bresson being an early idol as much as Hemingway now he had an opportunity to indulge his aspirations . |
| 13 | Peter married a woman with two sons , aged non and 12. he had always been impressed by the boys ' good behaviour and had n't realised it was because their mother hits them whenever they do the slightest thing wrong . |
| 14 | Dexter had always been impressed by Blanche 's coolness under fire . |
| 15 | When she had first plied her trade as a child prostitute , she had always been embarrassed by their silent knowing stares . |
| 16 | I had always been appalled by the ease with which men seemed able to separate sex and love and now here was I building a high wall around myself and saying , ‘ I will let you into my body but stay out of my mind . ’ |
| 17 | It reminded her of how , in her youth , she had always been puzzled by the lines of the hymn : Can a mother 's tender care , cease towards the child she bear ? |
| 18 | Martin Fleischmann told me that he had always been puzzled by the behaviour of hydrogen in palladium . |
| 19 | However , AWA had also been negligent by allowing Mr Koval to operate without ‘ effective control and supervision ’ . |
| 20 | John Simpson had also been appalled by the competition entries for Paternoster Square and , at a very late stage , had managed to get hold of a copy of the brief — — to provide office space and car parking — and had sat down with a number of colleagues to draw up a scheme of their own . |
| 21 | He had then been horrified by what he had done , and had turned against the creature to which he stood as God stood to Adam — that sounded like the baffled reformer again to me ! |
| 22 | Many scientists have long been intrigued by the idea of adding a known toxic substance to water supplies to reduce cavities in teeth . |
| 23 | I HAVE long been impressed by the number of careless references in the Scriptures to the faithful blithely taking it upon themselves to raise houses to the Lord . |
| 24 | Arachnologists have long been puzzled by these patches . |
| 25 | The Russians have apparently been impressed by the cars ' reliablity . |
| 26 | ERNIE 's just been down-rated by the way to reduce the ou the , the ac the average now is less than seven percent . |
| 27 | He is a modes man who appears genuinely bemused by the British reaction to him : ‘ I have always been impressed by British democracy and the irony is that — although I have differences with the British leaders from time to time — I sometimes feel my kind of federalism is better understood in Britain than by some of the federalists elsewhere in Europe who always cry , onwards , onwards ! ’ |
| 28 | While a good many artists and dealers have clearly been upset by Saatchi 's actions , no one feels absolutely confident about the motives behind them , and Saatchi himself absolutely declines to discuss his dealings , whether in art or business . |
| 29 | We have also been impressed by the independent influence of family relationships over the generations , an approach which has been brought home to us through discussion with family therapists . |
| 30 | Where such nervousness has been overcome and groups have invited their neighbours along , they have often been surprised by the level of response ( Gibbs 1977:13 ; 1979a:22 ) . |