Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] of [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most were disposed of at the Investigation Officer stage , though an interesting innovation in 1989 , which is to be extended nationally , is local conciliation by experienced solicitors designated as Local Conciliation Officers . |
| 2 | No fixed assets were disposed of during the year . |
| 3 | Temperature was talked of in the context of some hundreds of millions of degrees Centigrade , necessary for the stripping away of the electron from the hydrogen atom , vital for the removal of the hydrostatic repulsive forces of the nuclei , leaving them free to collide . |
| 4 | If the parent of the opposite sex was unconsciously seductive with this adult when a young child , and if the excitement of the love of and for this parent was felt to be too dangerous , or was disapproved of by the parent of the same sex , passion and excitement within marriage may continue to be forbidden by an inner imperative . |
| 5 | But last week it was spoken of at the Inn . ’ |
| 6 | The purchased goodwill attributable to Model Developments Ltd , which was disposed of during the year , was £227,000 . |
| 7 | The present study was conceived of in the context of a theory that what licenses plural reference is the possibility of mapping atomic individuals into a common role-slot in some interpretative structure ( work in progress ) . |