Example sentences of "was [verb] of [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , intense lobbying was reported of deputies from Estonia , Georgia and other strongly nationalist-minded republics who were threatening to boycott the vote on the grounds that strengthening centralized executive authority ran counter to recent official proposals for restructuring the Soviet Union into a looser confederation of sovereign republics . |
| 2 | — This little house they lived in was made of strips of palm too and tied together with the tough liana ropes . |
| 3 | Use was made of facilities for communications , intelligence gathering , and early warning systems . |
| 4 | The oven was made of sheets of iron , in sections ; and you could fit it or pin it together and dismantle it after use . |
| 5 | Bousquet , aged 81 , was accused of crimes against humanity and charged with overseeing the deportation of Jews between 1942-44 . |
| 6 | On March 12 , 1991 , José de Almeida , the leader of the illegal separatist Azores Liberation Front , was acquitted of charges of treason . |
| 7 | Klaus Barbie , 77 , the Gestapo commander in Lyon in 1942-44 , who was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment by a French court in 1987 [ see p. 35417 ] , died in a prison hospital in Lyon on Sept. 25 ; he was cremated and his ashes were flown to Austria … |
| 8 | This committee was composed of representatives of producers , employees and consumers ; it too , however , could not be much of a check on High Authority action if the two bodies moved on to a collision course — something , in fact , which never occurred . |
| 9 | The Commission was composed of representatives from Champagne houses , growers , local officials , the ministry of agriculture and the treasury and its aims were ‘ to ensure the respect of local custom and tradition , the observation of which is necessary in order to preserve the quality of Champagne ’ . |
| 10 | Well I was thinking of things like witchcraft , which would seem a rather a luxury fringe subject , but some of the most fascinating research that 's been done recently in my period of early modern history has been showing how witchcraft erm was the second most important erm crime to come before the courts apart from theft in , in my period , and in exploring why witchcraft had this appeal you 're learning much more about the age . |
| 11 | Amy at the stove , experimenting with coloured dyes ( 6,7,8,9 ) : ‘ For this print , I was thinking of patterns of light and shade created by strong sunlight . ’ |
| 12 | The fourth wall was constructed of rows of teak slats , incorporated into which were two seamless sliding doors , impossible to detect with the naked eye and only capable of being activated by miniature sonic transmitters . |