Example sentences of "[pron] is [vb pp] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judicial sources said the arrests were made in connection with Fiat 's Cogefar-Impresit construction arm , which is suspected of illegal dealings in the building of Milan 's metro railway . |
| 2 | Once inside the cave , which is constructed of concrete walls seven feet thick , the fuel element can be observed both on closed-circuit television and through specially designed windows built into the walls . |
| 3 | Thus the substantive apple contains the lexical idea of a kind of fruit : this is its material significate , or lexeme , the import of meaning which is said of some object in the speaker 's experience . |
| 4 | Federal authority is vested in a President who is elected by the 14-member federal legislature , the National Congress , which is composed of 10 senators elected for two-year terms , and four at-large senators ( one from each state ) who are elected for four years . |
| 5 | The Law Society acts through its Council which is composed of 70 solicitors , 56 of whom are elected by members of the Society with the remaining 14 being elected by the Council itself . |
| 6 | In time the horn , which is composed of compacted hair , grows back . |
| 7 | The Republic of Kiribati , which is composed of 33 Pacific atolls within an area of 5,000,000 sq km , became an independent republic within the Commonwealth in July 1979 . |
| 8 | The Republic of Kiribati , which is composed of 33 Pacific atolls within an area of 5,000,000 sq km , became an independent republic within the Commonwealth in July 1979 . |
| 9 | There is a central lane 1.4 metres wide , which is made of two lines of large rectangular stone slabs . |
| 10 | As a preliminary , we must note that Thai has two forms to correspond to the English word old ; one is ( with superscript 2 indicating low tone ) which is used of animate beings , and the other is , applied to inanimates . |
| 11 | To claim that Britain has nurtured something in a matter ultimately pertaining to worship ( the choral singing of cathedral and chapel ) which is purified and controlled beyond anything possessed by Catholic Europe , which is purged of excessive artifice and rhetoric ( Continental reviewers consistently find English a cappella performances impassive ) and whose excellence gives Britain a mission these are among the ideas that have been the principal source of British national identity since the Act of Union in 1707 and were a foundation stone of English identity long before . |
| 12 | The bikini is tiny , three triangles of cotton crochet , and her ribs protrude so much that she looks as if she is made of corrugated paper . |
| 13 | Initially only orphaned , abandoned or destitute children were cared for by the state ; then those who were cruelly treated or delinquent ; and today any child who is deprived of normal home life on a temporary or permanent basis . |
| 14 | Then Vernage , 26 , who is accused of three murders , stabbed him again . |
| 15 | So what what they 're actually saying is that here is a formal training that will make sure that everybody at the , who goes on this course , comes away with a measure of having achieved those skills because th the course itself is formed of two parts . |
| 16 | Because the ‘ prig ’ has to be nailed , it comes as no surprise to find that electronic tagging seems set to join the introduction of ID cards as a means of controlling the ‘ dangerous classes ’ , for as many anthropologists have shown , the concept of movement itself is possessed of dangerous ambiguity and prevents easy classification . |
| 17 | One is reminded of modernist poetry ; the echoes and reverberation of Eliot , the Imagists ' individual statements within a given form . |
| 18 | Ants stumble into the pit by accident and , because it is constructed of friable soil or sand and has steep sides , they have to struggle to get out . |
| 19 | ‘ I hazard that it is constructed of reinforced megalanium , ’ Jinkwa said . |
| 20 | It is said of some speeches that they smell of the lamp . |
| 21 | There is a lightness of touch in the Gothic tracery in the windows ( although it is made of cast iron ! ) and the barge boarding in the central gable is almost like lace compared with the later and heavier Victorian sort . |
| 22 | It is made of polychrome brick in richly decorated patterns in reds , browns and yellows . |
| 23 | It is made of wooden slats and string . |
| 24 | It is made of ½-inch oak , unlined and with simple iron ring handles , those at the angle of the shoulders being sufficiently high up to fit over a pierced hasp protruding from the lid through which a padlock might be fitted , thereby rendering the contents safe from body-snatchers . |
| 25 | As a building it is composed of two parts : the portico and the circular cella . |
| 26 | Neubert ) said that the Federation of Master Builders — it is composed of small builders , and there are a large number of them — fully supports the order . |
| 27 | It is composed of large crystals , like bath salts , whereas Carrara is formed of very small crystals , like fine sugar . |
| 28 | In fact , the level of independence of inputs required for this sort of system to produce double dissociations is only likely to be achieved if it is composed of complementary modules . |
| 29 | It is built of Pentewan stone , a type of Cornish Elvan , the name given to the local quartz-porphyry . |
| 30 | It is built of large blocks of travertine stone and the arch has two concentric rings of radiating voussoirs . |