Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF President FW de Klerk was hoping to ease the pressure on his government by announcing the release of eight prominent prisoners on Tuesday , he must have been disappointed by the reaction . |
| 2 | Naturally , Reynard started there , drew the first blank , which did n't disconcert him ( he would have been disappointed by an easy discovery anyway ) and composed himself to delve deeper , perhaps taking it backwards a month at a time , beginning with Malamute 's employment with Club Eleusis . |
| 3 | Texans expecting something equally outré must have been disappointed by Desert of Roses : a treatment of the Beauty and the Beast legend set in Texas just after the American Civil War , the piece is essentially a rather sugary Broadway musical with minimalist frosting on the score . |
| 4 | Although there was some limited response to the last of these , Iraq must have been disappointed by the overall results of the campaign . |
| 5 | IF THE Chancellor expected consistent advice backed by irresistible logic from the first submission from his seven wise men , he will have been disappointed by their 80-page text plus statistical appendix yesterday . |
| 6 | If you had a ha'p'orth of brains you would have been married by now and living in Jesmond , the best end . |
| 7 | ‘ If it had n't been for your ghastly aunt we 'd have been married by now . ’ |
| 8 | Thus , the Scottish Law Commission in para 5:23 of their Memorandum 25 , observed that s62(4) : … is of importance since the introduction of the rule that property in sale might pass without delivery would otherwise have been possible by resort to transactions in the form of sale to circumvent the rule that a security over moveables may not generally be constituted without transfer to them . |
| 9 | However , without the programme it would have been extinct by 1977 ; it still exists today as a special branch of the Blonde d'Aquitaine , low in numbers but acting as a precious reservoir of interesting dairy-type genes . |
| 10 | ‘ If we did , they 'd all have been awake by now ! ’ |
| 11 | Allegations of treason were made concerning the loss of lands in France , a matter which may have particularly concerned the Kentishmen , whose vulnerability to raids was obvious , and who may well have been alarmed by the issue of a commission of array , and a command to set up warning beacons , on 14 April . |
| 12 | This supported the earlier conclusion that the use of a more sophisticated software during the analysis phase would have been beneficial by allowing the relationships to be properly charted . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If the freefall had gone better on Sunday then we would have been untouchable by this stage , but as it is the French are still ver close and their shooting will be very good . |
| 15 | he was very polite but he must have been bored by me . |
| 16 | When the first-night audience studied their printed librettos , they may have been intrigued by the curious frontispiece . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Bismarck must indeed have been impressed by this example of family loyalty . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Once , she supposed , she must have been impressed by formal evening wear on good male bodies , but now it annoyed her . |
| 25 | The virtuous Scottish doctor would certainly have been shocked by our modern profligacy . |
| 26 | As an initial reaction the girls ' parents might have been shocked by what they got up to . |
| 27 | I believe that had there been television in those days , the British cricket public would have been shocked by what they say and called for an early end to it all , irrespective of the rights and wrongs of Bodyline . |
| 28 | Carew 's bleak diagnosis can hardly have been uninfluenced by several decades of mounting concern at the impermanence of non-agricultural employment compared with the stability of farmers fully occupied tending their land , and men continuously employed as servants in husbandry engaged for a year at a time . |
| 29 | She might also have been incensed by the negative portrayal of homosexuality in the movie . |
| 30 | ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd have been fish-food by now . ’ |