Example sentences of "[be] excited by [art] " in BNC.

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1 The multi-stack variable-reluctance stepping motor is divided along its axial length into magnetically isolated sections ( " stacks " ) , each of which can be excited by a separate winding ( " phase " ) .
2 - Chamberlain , at seventy-two , could still be excited by the hint of a return to his old department .
3 So if , for example , a feature like straight line at the top has excitatory connections with the letter detector for E , and curve at the top has inhibitory connections , how can the E-detector be excited by the stimulus e ?
4 During the training programme Fellows are encouraged to question the experts they meet ‘ to be excited by the excellent and disturbed by the mediocre ’ .
5 Wimpey is looking for five young people who would be excited by the idea of travelling to far flung destinations — like Panama , Chile or Malaysia .
6 But there is a problem : the astrologers of the ancient world were certainly au fait with the behaviour of the planets and so , while they might have been excited by the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn , they would not necessarily have regarded it as too desperately important .
7 At first Stuart had been excited by the sight of an occasional fish rising out of the sluggish water , but later he 'd grown bored because he was too small to row successfully , and trailing his hands over the side apparently disturbed the fish ; baling out with the old saucepan also made too much noise .
8 The car queue is not long and I am excited by the welcoming signs in Gaelic .
9 Experimentalists , on the other hand , are excited by the demonstration of electron motion under previously hypothetical conditions , and are looking to other devices where the same effects can appear in less stringent experimental circumstances .
10 This , and other intimate details of the lives of the people of Central Asia , are now being researched by the many Turkish companies that are excited by the prospect of 10% green-eyed , 12% hazel-eyed and 100% starry-eyed potential customers longing to lose their material innocence .
11 The phase circuits are excited by the supply voltage , which produces the rated current in an excited phase when the motor is stationary , and the phase currents flow via the diode D , which is forward-biased by the supply voltage .
12 Seismic waves were excited by a vertical point impulse of 7 x10 18 dyns ( ref. 15 ) .
13 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 .
14 Suppose , for example , that the matrix A is the system matrix of a vibrating mechanical system , and suppose further that this system is excited by a forcing vibration of frequency corresponding to unc =
15 In his Theory of Light and Colour ( 1777 ) , he suggested that the retina of the eye contains three different kinds of particle ( elsewhere he speaks of ‘ molecules ’ or ‘ fibres ’ ) , each of which is excited by a different kind of light .
16 Each phase winding is excited by a separate drive circuit , which is controlled by a low-power " phase control signal " .
17 The phase windings of both hybrid and variable-reluctance stepping motors are electrically isolated and each phase is excited by a separate drive circuit , so it is possible to excite several phases at any time .
18 Mrs Browning , who looks weak and I believe has hardly moved from her room all winter , though she has ventured on a carriage trip or two since spring arrived , is excited by the promise Cavour has made to bring some statesmanship into this affair and hopes much from him .
19 Is the concept of sensation involved in these sentences such that it makes sense to say that the same sensation is excited by the presence to our organs of numerous objects , or is it such that numerous objects ( and , indeed , the same object at different times ) can not but excite different , though possibly exactly similar sensations ?
20 For example , if a cell doubles its discharge rate under one set of conditions but quadruples under another , does that difference affect how subsequent levels in the circuit respond so that one group of cells is excited by the first set of conditions but a second group is activated by the second set ?
21 For ⅓ of the cycle the phase is excited by the supply voltage V : The d.c. component ( V0 ) is simply the average of the phase voltage : In this example and therefore .
22 Thus , AEA is now beginning to contemplate a future in which it becomes an independent business , and its management is excited by the prospect .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Once , out at Scheveningen , he was excited by the wind lashing the sea into a fine rage .
27 But the Founders ' vote for Manchester was also supported by Walsh , who was excited by the possibilities of fund-raising from the northern councils .
28 He was excited by the troubadours , who wrote endlessly varied repetitions of inventive metaphors for love , pain , service .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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