Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of these colours were applied wet over dry , but the graduated shadows of the light grey background to the shoe linings were blended out of two tones of grey , worked together wet . |
| 2 | Certain important roads , too , were altered out of all recognition . |
| 3 | When watching parliamentary television , I have not often felt that there was an unfair political balance and none of the Members I interviewed raised this matter , except that one Liberal Democrat believed that the smaller parties were squeezed out of live coverage on Tuesdays and Thursdays . |
| 4 | Some were catapulted out of smashed windows , while others were trapped and had to be cut free . |
| 5 | The remaining er , eleven erm , on the delegation were made up of General Secretary , Deputy General Secretary , elected national officers and a few senior staff . |
| 6 | They were made up of one pharmacy car , one staff car , one personnel car , two kitchen cars , one mess room car , one stores car , one break car with wards for infectious cases , and ten ward cars . |
| 7 | Crews in Buffalo and Syracuse were made up of one driver and two labourers . |
| 8 | The 48 films were made up of four films showing motorway driving , eight showing bends in a road and four exemplars each of left turns , right turns and driving straight ahead in each of three situations : signalized crossroads , four arm roundabouts , and unsignalized T-junctions . |
| 9 | In the case of coal , this is undoubtedly true : it is the partially decomposed remains of forests , which were made up of giant clubmosses and other extinct trees . |
| 10 | But both of these key groups , in Stockman 's view , were made up of unreliable allies . |
| 11 | The old fabric biplanes were entirely satisfactory but then they were made out of small pieces of wood , they were well ventilated and they were kept in good dry hangars . |
| 12 | It carried a silver Cupid , the eyes of which were fashioned out of pure diamonds . ’ |
| 13 | The current Fortran 90 specifications were born out of failed attempts by industry vendors in the US to update Fortran77 to Fortran8X in the late 1980s . |
| 14 | The current Fortran 90 specifications were born out of failed attempts by industry vendors in the US to update Fortran77 to Fortran8X in the late 1980s . |
| 15 | Two songs ‘ This Charming Man ’ and ‘ Handsome Devil ’ were born out of these feelings as was his ( soon to be much publicised ) use of flowers . |
| 16 | During the forties and early fifties these , plus the romantic songs evoked by wartime partings , loss and refindings , found a worthy competitor in the more recent folk-songs of America , which were borne out of economic collapse ( on the white hand ) , and subservience and racialism ( on the black ) . |
| 17 | As they were phased out of first line units Londons went mostly to 4 Coastal Operational Training Unit , but a few passed to the Flying-Boat Training Squadron ( FBTS ) at Stranraer . |
| 18 | So-called food gifts arriving in Saratov were forced out of Ukrainian peasants by the food-collecting army ( Prodovol'stvennaia armiia ) , although they were still paying agricultural taxes which had been waived in the Volga provinces . |
| 19 | Most relations were created out of simple necessity — the need for advice , help with building , renovations and so forth . |
| 20 | I am one of the hon. Members who has started a business from scratch and who has been an employer of quite a lot of people whose jobs were created out of that initiative and enterprise . |
| 21 | Decolonisation meant that , by and large , independent states were created out of existing areas of colonial administration , within their colonial frontiers . |
| 22 | In the War of American Independence three British regiments were composed entirely of reprieved criminals , while vagrants and other undesirables were often forced into the army as an alternative to prison . |
| 23 | Other towns were changed out of all recognition because of their location at centres of major railway lines . |
| 24 | During 1984 , a survey was carried out of in-service training in public library authorities in the UK . |
| 25 | During 1984 a survey was carried out of in-service training in public libraries in the UK . |
| 26 | Money was moved out of small banks all over the world . |
| 27 | Vincent Hickey , 38 , was moved out of Long Lartin top security jail last weekend after he was found bleeding from razor slash injuries , but is now refusing food at Birmingham 's Winson Green jail . |
| 28 | A first group of western women and children was moved out of potential war targets to a hotel in Baghdad . |
| 29 | She travelled via Canterbury to London , where she spoke ‘ boldly and mightily ’ against the vicious , did a good deal of sobbing and crying , and was turned out of several churches . |
| 30 | Mention was made above of facial expressions , gestures and body movements . |