Example sentences of "[been] [adj] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , Indian exports have been depressed by a combination of politics and nature . |
| 2 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 3 | Not for the first time , therefore , a government keen on deregulation has been upset by the results . |
| 4 | He began by saying he had been asked to speak on censorship and that he had been upset by the reception meted out to Sinead O'Connor at the Madison Square Garden Bob Dylan tribute . |
| 5 | She put her head on one side , trying to make him understand from the look in her eyes that Stephen had been upset by the references to his mother 's death . |
| 6 | I had been upset by the news about George . |
| 7 | Sitting by her bedroom window later that night , Laura lectured herself for having been so naïve as to have been upset by the remarks he had originally made on the dance-floor . |
| 8 | He was put on probation and ordered to do community service after a solicitor said he 'd been upset by the death of his mother . |
| 9 | Even when North Yorkshire sites have been short-listed by an investor on quality grounds the county has had no means of matching the financial incentives elsewhere . |
| 10 | I have no idea how i it went around a up in the northern hemisphere , over Scandinavia , and Georgia 's in the south , so you 'd have think it 'd have been weak by the time it got down I 'm not a scientist , I have no idea what |
| 11 | The selection of paper and board manufacturers/retailers has been pre-selected by the magazine . |
| 12 | It had all been stage-managed by the Mossad . |
| 13 | Graham Greene does this so thoroughly that the country of his imagination has been dignified by the name of ‘ Greeneland ’ . |
| 14 | A petition to them might bring assistance for a particular project , but their schools received little attention : salaries were simply noted in the accounts and no one stopped to consider whether £10 which had been generous by the standards of earlier centuries might now be inadequate . |
| 15 | Robyn nodded polite approval of this abstention , while privately guessing that Rupert Sutcliffe had not been embarrassed by a large number of invitations . |
| 16 | Many a visitor has been embarrassed by the fact that Reykjavik airport is different from Keflavik . |
| 17 | Little and Crosby stood next to each other after the game and the Leicester boss said : ‘ I 've been embarrassed by the speculation but Malcolm and I can probably handle it better than anyone . |
| 18 | Others have been unconvinced by the search for an overall — and underlying — logic , linking the various local government reforms . |
| 19 | Ever since March , when Clinton recalled smoking marijuana , he 's been unconvinced by the candidate 's own version of events . |
| 20 | Paradoxically , what had been half-revealed by the Boston Bowl helped him in his exchange . |
| 21 | She had always disliked them , had never for a moment been able to see their virtues ; she had been bored by the classical , and had felt a positive , righteous contempt for the baroque and the neo-Gothic . |
| 22 | The government is hoping for a vote of confidence in the elections , and has been dismayed by the support the Front appears to be getting . |
| 23 | Like my colleagues in Newport , I have been dismayed by the checks for people over 75 : it is not just the collection of medical facts but the appreciation of the social and personal difficulties of elderly people . |
| 24 | Aid workers in Somalia , including those with UN agencies , were widely reported to have been dismayed by the prospect of a US-led military intervention . |
| 25 | Graham Gooch insisted there would be ‘ no wholesale changes ’ for the second Test , which begins at Lord 's on Thursday week , but the captain and his fellow selectors will have been dismayed by the worrying lack of technique and substance shown by most of the team at Old Trafford . |
| 26 | He recorded a visit of several days to Thorndon , Lord Petre 's estate , where he collected many rare specimens and must have been delighted by the tapestry of exotic climbers woven through trellises at the back of the stoves ( see p. 55 ) . |
| 27 | I have been delighted by the interest and support of the people of Killyleagh . |
| 28 | Faber has been delighted by the response from booksellers to its £100,000 ‘ How to become a millionaire ’ spring promotion . |
| 29 | However we have been delighted by the response so far . |
| 30 | He had been incensed by the guy on the comer [ who had said ‘ Fucking bastards ’ as they drove past ] and I felt wanted to take it out on somebody . |