Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [adv prt] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first ring was thrown out of a window after a row . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This optimism was borne out of a confidence in the ability of the social sciences to provide the basis for social policies ; in the State to administer those policies ; in the superiority of middle-class culture ; and in psycho-medicine to understand and explain individual behaviour . |
| 4 | In June the facade was blown out of the Iraqi Planning Ministry building by what seems to have been a car bomb , although it is not clear whether this was the result of direct Iranian action or that of some domestic opposition group . |
| 5 | The above extract was taken out of the ‘ Welsh Marches ’ section . |
| 6 | A study was carried out of the behaviour of … |
| 7 | The car was hauled out of the river and Tania 's body was discovered inside . |
| 8 | The spreader arrived and the boat was edged out of the marina and into Plymouth Sound . |
| 9 | Seven readers wrote in suggesting this name , so one entry was drawn out of a hat : Mrs Joan Davis of Chipping Sodbury , Bristol is the winner of an Al-Ko shredder . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Run-of-mine-material was brought out of the mine in horse drawn mine waggons ( sometimes it was carted ) and tipped onto sloping grizzleys of strong iron bars set apart to allow an undersize of 4 in . |
| 12 | In societies such as colonial Sri Lanka , in which criminal law was made up of a set of rules , under this definition it is not normally difficult to determine whether or not an action was criminal . |
| 13 | Does it matter , though , for literary criticism whether the poetry was formed out of a period of rebellion or revolution ? |
| 14 | Paul Rotha was amongst those who argued that crime films did much to change the whole basis of film technique ; now the pace was to be crisper , there was more naturalism , and dialogue was lifted out of the ‘ doldrums of the photographed play ’ . |
| 15 | The British Museum was founded out of the proceeds of such a lottery . |
| 16 | They heard the siren and were at the entrance ready to take over as soon as the boy was carried out of the ambulance . |
| 17 | To a large extent the Unity Campaign was passing out of the control of the Socialist League into that of the Left Book Club and the weekly Tribune , founded by Cripps in January 1937 . |
| 18 | The hen was taken out of the cage , held up and its throat cut . |
| 19 | At some time prior to 1810–1811 , the mill was taken out of the cloth trade and converted to a corn mill , run by William Clissold . |
| 20 | The 1917 announcement was wrung out of a reluctant and distracted Cabinet by Edwin Montagu , who saw himself at the time as the architect of a new India — an India of ‘ great self-governing Dominions and Provinces … organised and coordinated with the great Principalities … , federated by one central Government ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Lisa 's instant reaction was to back out of the door again . |
| 23 | Charlie 's only reaction was to stare out of the window because he was n't quite sure what else to do . |
| 24 | Each profile was made up of a combination of descriptors and Boolean conditions , and averaged twenty-six distinct search terms . |
| 25 | Levein was ruled out of the World Cup match after a medical check yesterday , leaving manager Andy Roxburgh with defensive problems following the loss of Richard Gough from his original pool . |
| 26 | The fluency with which he himself wrote about this period was born out of a particular requirement . |
| 27 | Paddy 's ginger mop was poked out of the window . |
| 28 | Since the tax was paid out of the financial resources of the merchants it was quite proper to seek consent from them rather than from parliament , but the merchants were suspected , no doubt with some justification , of seeking to pass the real burden of the tax on to the producers . |
| 29 | The group was made up of an educational psychologist , a psychiatric social worker , an educational welfare worker and myself . |
| 30 | It may have been seven years late and a billion dollars over budget , but the Hubble space telescope was lifting out of the shuttle cargo bay and on its way to orbit at last , ready to look back across the universe to the very beginnings of time . |