Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [adv prt] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said a 130lb sheat-fish was hauled out of the Dnepr one time . |
| 2 | The first ring was thrown out of a window after a row . |
| 3 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , Nuclear Electric was formed out of the old Central Electricity Generating Board and has remained a Government-owned project throughout . |
| 4 | This optimism was borne out of a confidence in the ability of the social sciences to provide the basis for social policies ; in the State to administer those policies ; in the superiority of middle-class culture ; and in psycho-medicine to understand and explain individual behaviour . |
| 5 | In June the facade was blown out of the Iraqi Planning Ministry building by what seems to have been a car bomb , although it is not clear whether this was the result of direct Iranian action or that of some domestic opposition group . |
| 6 | The above extract was taken out of the ‘ Welsh Marches ’ section . |
| 7 | In many respects the ‘ New Conservatism ’ in Britain and the United States was born out of a reaction to the high inflation of the mid-1970s . |
| 8 | A study was carried out of the behaviour of … |
| 9 | The car was hauled out of the river and Tania 's body was discovered inside . |
| 10 | The spreader arrived and the boat was edged out of the marina and into Plymouth Sound . |
| 11 | Seven readers wrote in suggesting this name , so one entry was drawn out of a hat : Mrs Joan Davis of Chipping Sodbury , Bristol is the winner of an Al-Ko shredder . |
| 12 | Labour leader John Smith , in Question Time exchanges on freedom of information , demanded to know the cost to Britain of the ‘ fiasco ’ of Black Wednesday , when the pound was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 13 | Ellen was hurrying out of the solar . |
| 14 | Run-of-mine-material was brought out of the mine in horse drawn mine waggons ( sometimes it was carted ) and tipped onto sloping grizzleys of strong iron bars set apart to allow an undersize of 4 in . |
| 15 | In societies such as colonial Sri Lanka , in which criminal law was made up of a set of rules , under this definition it is not normally difficult to determine whether or not an action was criminal . |
| 16 | Does it matter , though , for literary criticism whether the poetry was formed out of a period of rebellion or revolution ? |
| 17 | Paul Rotha was amongst those who argued that crime films did much to change the whole basis of film technique ; now the pace was to be crisper , there was more naturalism , and dialogue was lifted out of the ‘ doldrums of the photographed play ’ . |
| 18 | Nails was looking out of the window as if he had nothing to do with any of them . |
| 19 | The British Museum was founded out of the proceeds of such a lottery . |
| 20 | They heard the siren and were at the entrance ready to take over as soon as the boy was carried out of the ambulance . |
| 21 | Mr Ross was coming out of a door . |
| 22 | Periodically Utrillo was allowed out of the asylum for a few days and occasionally he escaped . |
| 23 | To a large extent the Unity Campaign was passing out of the control of the Socialist League into that of the Left Book Club and the weekly Tribune , founded by Cripps in January 1937 . |
| 24 | The hen was taken out of the cage , held up and its throat cut . |
| 25 | At some time prior to 1810–1811 , the mill was taken out of the cloth trade and converted to a corn mill , run by William Clissold . |
| 26 | The 1917 announcement was wrung out of a reluctant and distracted Cabinet by Edwin Montagu , who saw himself at the time as the architect of a new India — an India of ‘ great self-governing Dominions and Provinces … organised and coordinated with the great Principalities … , federated by one central Government ’ . |
| 27 | In the thirteenth century the decoration of manuscripts was passing out of the hands of the religious houses to artists grouped together within the towns and working for patrons both lay and ecclesiastical . |
| 28 | Long famed for its masterly handling of the markets , the Bank lost face when sterling was forced out of the European exchange-rate mechanism in September . |
| 29 | Lisa 's instant reaction was to back out of the door again . |
| 30 | Charlie 's only reaction was to stare out of the window because he was n't quite sure what else to do . |