Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse . |
| 32 | The television-viewing public was made up of the older stay-at-homes , not the swinging exotics whose exploits filled the front pages of the newspapers . |
| 33 | The square tower of the church was built out of the dun-coloured limestone called foinstone and so were all the cottages and Chesney Hall itself . |
| 34 | All moisture was drawn out of the dead before they could rot . |
| 35 | When it was easy to reach this man whose spirit was born out of the best of the desert traditions . |
| 36 | Secondly , the DTB system was born out of the political necessity to involve the small regional stock exchanges in Germany . |
| 37 | UNEP , it is worth recalling , was born out of the 1972 Stockholm conference ; the 1992 anniversary conference will be the time to consider turning it into a full-blown UN agency with more funds at its disposal . |
| 38 | He was coming out of the rough and flying . |
| 39 | It seems that the Battler and Rico let fly at somebody who was coming out of the back door of the Regal Arms . |
| 40 | Not with the head injuries , no , it was a group of the and he was coming out of the just coming out some pub down in Conasquay and he was these lads were all singing , apparently this is what happened anyway , they were all singing and you know making merry and he said , what are you all so cheerful about or something ? |
| 41 | On one occasion a confused patient with subarachnoid haemorrhage harangued nurses and caused chaos on the ward until she was wheeled out of the high dependency unit for a cigarette , after which she settled down . |
| 42 | However in October 1974 this message — addressed to a former inmate — was smuggled out of the infamous prison , Cuatro Alamos , on the inside of a cigarette packet . |
| 43 | But when she saw what he was taking out of the inside pocket of the overcoat , she felt faint with fright . |
| 44 | Although Laurie led the first day of the 1957 Open jointly with Eric Brown and Flory Van Donck , he was to finish out of the top twenty , Bobby Locke taking the last of his four Championship titles . |
| 45 | The three-time world champion and favourite to take the Olympic crown on Monday lost vital points when she was ruled out of the seventh race after her board broke . |
| 46 | The youngsters were so delighted when the final whistle went that they all jumped on the luckless coach , bruising his ribs so badly that he was ruled out of the next weekend 's third team fixture . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | They say she was forced out of the National Health service because of no long term care beds . |
| 50 | A SPANIARD defends his German Masters title this week , after being stung into winning last year when he was left out of the Suntory World Matchplay Championship , while an Australian plays here having sacrificed a lucrative place in this year 's matchplay event , writes Norman Dabrell from Stuttgart . |
| 51 | But Jones said : ‘ He was moping around in training this morning whether it was because he was left out of the first team I 'm not sure . |
| 52 | Women 's experimental art of the seventies was left out of the original choice . |
| 53 | DeFreitas had been considered fortunate to be selected for the first Test , when he was left out of the original squad but leapfrogged Essex seamer Mark Ilott after Alan Igglesden pulled out injured on the eve of the game . |
| 54 | Gazzer , moving cautiously , looking all about him , was creeping out of the left-hand tunnel and making for the entrance . |
| 55 | A small head was poking out of the topmost window . |
| 56 | He said : ‘ I 'm disgusted that I was allowed out of the first hospital in that state . ’ |
| 57 | A total of £3,500 million was taken out of the public-sector borrowing requirement . |
| 58 | Eric Bristow was knocked out of the British Darts Open in London last night by Charlie Holdaway , a 28-year-old furniture assembler from Isleworth , Middlesex . |
| 59 | Two weeks ago , a television was thrown out of the flat window and there had also been fights . |
| 60 | Hunt was put out of the new US Grand Prix ( West ) at Long Beach , following a shunt with Patric Depailler ( Fra ) as Lauda finished second to stretch his lead to 18 points . |