Example sentences of "who [verb] been [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally regrettably , they suggest that she who ( presumably ) approved them is not so much a Pharisee as a Philistine : one , moreover , who has been impressed by too many drives down The Bishop 's Avenue , where Hampstead 's temples to new money are built , en route to the Finchley constituency . |
| 2 | It is perhaps worth remembering that the Beveridge Report was published as early as 1942 ; it embodied the aspirations of so many who had been disappointed by the failure of Lloyd George 's ‘ land fit for heroes to live in ’ to materialise . |
| 3 | It was a place he had visited three times — once to be seen ; the second time to appreciate the sermon which he had afterwards discussed outside the small West Door with the vicar who had been impressed by his distinguished visitor 's passionate piety . |
| 4 | He describes lodging in the beautifully furnished house of a respectable widow with artistic tastes , who had been impoverished by inflation . |
| 5 | His noble gesture appeased those churchmen who had been appalled by his early obstinacy over the archbishopric of Bourges . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One night , in the depths of winter , Thorwall demanded Glam go outside to settle the livestock who had been frightened by a WRAITH , or ‘ walker after death ’ . |
| 9 | Two others , a Mr. and Mrs. Ackers , were parents of a deaf girl who had been orally-educated by them at home . |
| 10 | This coincides with the views of some other feminist writers who have been impressed by this distinctively ‘ female ’ contribution to morality . |
| 11 | Although Wallinger makes quite a straightforward , if powerfully direct , rock noise there are many who have been impressed by his abilities as a natural communicator — especially at his live shows . |
| 12 | And this persists in the work of political scientists , sociologists and others who have been impressed by the approach . |
| 13 | I 've known people who have been upset by , you know , |
| 14 | His emulation of ‘ loose semantic fit ’ does however puzzle many modern readers — those especially who have been sophisticated by modern literary practice . |
| 15 | Amongst those who have been appalled by the bolting is local activist Malcolm Baxter . |