Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trees were cleared from the banks , and raised flood-banks were built out of the dredged material alongside the stream course . |
| 2 | In the early 1980s , 80 per cent of agricultural exports were made up of the following items , in order of importance : coffee , sugar , soya beans , oil seed meal and oil-cake , cotton , cocoa , bananas , beef and live cattle , maize and wheat ( López Cordovez 1982 ) . |
| 3 | Closed basins as deep as 135 feet were bitten out of the underlying basalt . |
| 4 | For crisis loans , helping customers meet expenses in an emergency , 3,315 people were helped out of the 3,508 applications made . |
| 5 | The Benefits Agency spokesman said the figures for budget loans showed that 7,509 people were helped out of the 13,060 applications made . |
| 6 | The fish they were pulling out of the Swedish lakes were badly deformed . |
| 7 | There were still several boys , waiting for their lifts home , and a number of cars were pulling out of the main gates . |
| 8 | Great flat-topped sheets of cloud were moving out of the frigid lands , intermittently obscuring the moon . |
| 9 | TENNIS : Ivan Lendl and John McEnroe were bundled out of the German Open in the second round yesterday by Italians who were still schoolboys when the pair were in their prime . |
| 10 | LIVERPOOL paid the price for Moscow madness when they were dumped out of the European Cup Winners Cup on Wednesday . |
| 11 | I think he was convinced the green was fast , but maybe he had forgotten we were coming out of the rough and the topspin ran us through the green . |
| 12 | When the Coalitionists were driven out of the Liberal fold at Leamington in the following May dependence became even greater , for it removed the only theoretical alternative that Lloyd George and his friends had left . |
| 13 | Bilal Shebib and Samir Medina were smuggled out of the infamous Bourje Al Bourajnee refugee camp in the Lebanon five years ago by British doctor Pauline Cutting . |
| 14 | After that win , Hope 's family and supporters celebrated with champagne in the dressing room and Lawless recalled : ‘ We only had a few glasses and Mo and I were drinking out of the same one . |
| 15 | CHILE were thrown out of the 1994 World Cup by Fifa yesterday after forcing their decisive 1990 qualifier against Brazil to be abandoned in Rio when their players walked off claiming that the Chilean goalkeeper , Roberto Rojas , had been injured by a flare . |
| 16 | In these years the Unitarians were forced out of the Dissenting Deputies and had to fight for control of their chapel property against other dissenters ; tensions and fractures recurrently emerged within the Society of Friends . |
| 17 | That Beveridge viewed the elderly with a notable lack of sympathy is evident in the few telling phrases which appeared in the final draft of August 1942 but were left out of the published Report : to give full subsistence pensions ‘ as a birthday present ’ to an individual attaining the age of 60 or 65 would be ‘ reprehensible extravagance ’ which was ‘ wholly unjustifiable ’ . |
| 18 | made a quick exit from the Yorkshire Shield competition when they were knocked out of the first round 13–4 in a game spoiled by the wind . |
| 19 | made a quick exit from the Yorkshire Shield competition when they were knocked out of the first round 13–4 in a game spoiled by the wind . |
| 20 | They were knocked out of the Anglo-Italian Cup by Portsmouth , who beat them two-nil at the Manor . |
| 21 | In the early days of man 's evolution natural forces ensured that these individuals were weeded out of the human race and could not reproduce , but science has altered all that , made it possible to rear such frail specimens . |
| 22 | A group of women prisoners were leaning out of the second-floor window , watching the visitors approach the building . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The van spun off the road into a school fence and trainee decorator Wayne , of Marrick Road , Park End , was catapulted out of the rear doors . |
| 25 | Second , analysis was carried out of the existing capabilities of the Management Committee with regard to what might be appropriate economic objectives for them . |
| 26 | Analysis was carried out of the 1988/9 housing investment programme ( HIP ) statements for each authority . |
| 27 | But it was considered out of the conversational court . |
| 28 | Gerry Boden , the lost boy , had made off in that direction when he was hunted out of the dangerous area . |
| 29 | In the back a woman was looking out of the open window , her chin propped on the heel of her hand . |
| 30 | The Donaldson matter was petty and tiresome but much of office life was made up of the petty and tiresome . |