Example sentences of "[verb] been impressed 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 working closely with HSE , and has been impressed by the progress made since 1974 in moving towards a much more thorough understanding of the real reasons for major breaches of safety , and of how to make them less likely . |
| 3 | Because he took over his new duties in the close season Love has not had too many opportunities to meet many of the players , but the squad have had two nets at Moray House College , Edinburgh , the last two Fridays and Love has been impressed by the effort put in by the players at these sessions . |
| 4 | Until we came to the Furka I 'd been impressed by the Spirit R/T , surprised by the agility of its handling , the sensitivity and accuracy of its power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering , the breadth of the uninterrupted acceleration from its powerful turbocharged engine , the lightness of the controls and the quality of the gearchange . |
| 5 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |
| 6 | Napoleon Bonaparte , Metternich , Napoleon III and Vittorio Emanuele II all visited the house , and each must have been impressed by the colossal Ionic columns that hold up the façade and hem in the doorway . |
| 7 | Bismarck must indeed have been impressed by this example of family loyalty . |
| 8 | Of course , they liked large buyers , but the manager there must have been impressed by her father years ago , probably because although his orders were n't all that large they were regular . |
| 9 | Carey continued : ‘ I doubt if He would have been impressed by the argument that the goats had been waiting for these things to trickle down as a by-product of economic growth . ’ |
| 10 | Yet anyone who cocked an ear to their self-titled debut EP earlier this year will have been impressed by how un-English it was , both in its rough-hewn melancholic tangle — most obviously echoing both Buffalo Tom and the N-band , though not actually resembling either — and the absence of what has now become the standard English guitar-band attitude : jumped-up barrow boys jostling those same old post-punk moves , all looking out for the main chance and a quick route to the charts . |
| 11 | Howard might well have been impressed by the importance given to classification by TDC , despite the fact that it seems to be unfashionable in western European administrations . |
| 12 | Once , she supposed , she must have been impressed by formal evening wear on good male bodies , but now it annoyed her . |
| 13 | Best reckons there wo n't be much between the sides at Murrayfield , having been impressed by the Welsh commitment against his own team — ‘ We knew they would come at us , and they certainly did , though we should still have won ’ — while he has taken a liking to the revamped Scottish pack . |
| 14 | Unlike most other musicians , he did not seem to have been impressed by Louis Armstrong 's seminal appearance at the London Palladium in 1932 . |
| 15 | Eliot , who was putting ‘ Tartar horsemen ’ in his poetry in 1924 , seems to have been impressed by this passage . |
| 16 | Bernard could not fail to have been impressed by such spontaneous enthusiasm ; equally , Peter felt Bernard was ‘ obviously a man of excitement heading a most intriguing company , I could see that he needed someone to deal with the administration leaving him free to run his company . ’ |
| 17 | Late in his reign , the Shah was even said to have been impressed by the liberalizing efforts of King Juan Carlos in Spain . |
| 18 | Ministers are said to have been impressed by what they regard as the success of privately-run prisons and want to extend the scheme to other parts of the criminal justice system . |
| 19 | When working for Reuters , a colleague revealed that their boss had been impressed by his hobby . |
| 20 | He was familiar with Pound 's writing on Japanese drama , and had been impressed by the first performance of At the Hawk 's Well when he had seen a well-known Japanese dancer take the role of the hawk . |
| 21 | During the practice , Prost had been impressed by both the McLaren and the Williams and his worst fears were confirmed as Senna pulled inexorably away and the multi-coloured Williams of Nigel Mansell began to move about in Prost 's mirrors . |
| 22 | She had been impressed by the view , the quite breath-taking view , from the headland of Posillipo round to the curiously named Egg Castle , a box of brown stone on its rocky promontory in the Bay and on farther to the Sorrento Peninsula beyond . |
| 23 | I assured him truthfully that I had been impressed by his skill and speed , and I thought his results marvellous . |
| 24 | Mr Baker appointed him without interview because he had been impressed by Professor Stubbs 's publications on the importance of knowledge about language . |
| 25 | Apparently Mr Baker had met him on a social occasion , and had been impressed by his traditionalist views . |
| 26 | I had known Katharine for many years , and , in common with other members of the Kingman Committee , I had been impressed by her presentation when she appeared before us to answer questions . |
| 27 | He had been impressed by his companion 's expertise , with the way he handled what seemed the most complex manoeuvres with a cool and detached ability . |
| 28 | Mosley himself admired Lloyd George 's qualities of leadership and had been impressed by his energy and administrative skills at the Ministry of Munitions from 1915 to 1916 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Danny Bascombe had done a got job for them , and Stephen had been impressed by his ability , she remembered . |