Example sentences of "carved [adv prt] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a long struggle indeed , small fields being literally carved out of the landscape by fire , hacking and sheer brute force . |
| 2 | An ugly gash was carved out of the Downs after the war to provide a large car park , and a boat park was made by the lifeboat house . |
| 3 | This walk is along part of the Ridgeway National Trail , its highlight the incredible Cerne Giant — an 180ft outline of a naked man carved out of the hillside . |
| 4 | The Roman stage remains in ruined form and has curtailed the orchestra to a semi-circle , but the seating of the auditorium shows the Greek plan carved out of the hillside ( 125 ) . |
| 5 | Every town of importance possessed its theatre most of which had been built in Hellenistic times often carved out of the hillside but fronted by a stage building and proscenium platform . |
| 6 | Below , uneven steps carved out of the cliff led down to a small sandy cove . |
| 7 | Called the Totem Pole of Wisdom , it 's a stack of books , carved out of the trunk of a cedar tree . |
| 8 | It was a magical room , carved out of the attic and reached only by a wrought-iron spiral staircase which Paul had rescued from some abandoned church . |
| 9 | Carved out of the rock and only a few inches wide , they require a certain agility . |
| 10 | Immediately Alec 's eyes filled with sweat again and he strained to hold the delicate balance of the bucket of fire as it moved lower and closer to the shape carved out of the ground . |
| 11 | Other districts were illegally withdrawn from the Forest jurisdiction by magnates to make their private chases — such as the Earl Marshal 's chase near Chepstow , carved out of the Forest of Dean early in Henry III 's reign ; the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 's chase of Cannock ; and the Bishop of Ely 's chase of Somersham . |
| 12 | A tree line at 11,5000 feet ( compared with 5,500 in Europe ) gives the American Rocky Mountain resorts an unfamiliar uniformity : the runs are carved out of the forest , making for excellent visibility in bad weather ( in itself commendably rare ) , but you can get the feeling that one glade is very much like another . |