Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During 1984 , a survey was carried out of in-service training in public library authorities in the UK . |
| 2 | During 1984 a survey was carried out of in-service training in public libraries in the UK . |
| 3 | Money was moved out of small banks all over the world . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A first group of western women and children was moved out of potential war targets to a hotel in Baghdad . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mention was made above of facial expressions , gestures and body movements . |
| 8 | Once more he was overcome with a strange feeling , but this he could recognise , for it was made up of unadulterated fear . |
| 9 | Where most saw atoms with void space between them in the manner of Newton and Dalton , Faraday by the 1840s believed that matter was made up of mere point centres of force . |
| 10 | Another reason why the Greeks may have chosen the number 360 is because they thought the year was made up of 360 days and that the sun went round the earth once a year . |
| 11 | The labour movement in Ireland was made up of two organizations . |
| 12 | Her head was made up of two snakeheads and her sagging breasts bore witness to her eternal fertility . |
| 13 | The game was made up of two penalties and a try … |
| 14 | The English could have no idea , Bryher maintained , that America had a climate that varied from that of Norway to that of a Spanish summer , that much of America was made up of monotonous stretches of unbroken country , and that there were parts where only Swedish is spoken and others where seventeenth-century English remained almost intact . |
| 15 | I then told him it was the Sun and I explained all about the Sun being a star and how it was made up of hot gases , and it was in the Galaxy , and our galaxy was only one of lots of galaxies . |
| 16 | The 1st Bucks was made up of four companies , Wolverton covering the north of the county . |
| 17 | The rest of the estate was made up of other bond settlements , each with its own infield/ outfield system and dependent on the caput . |
| 18 | Even later on , in the medieval period , when the downlands were indeed grass-covered grazing areas , the generally wide ‘ zone ’ of communication was made up of countless trackways criss-crossing each other , quite unlike what survives today . |
| 19 | They had economic power because they had control of the family money ; and they had psychological power because the entire outside world was made up of similar families ( in East Africa the Africans were socially invisible to Asians ) which respected and supported the concept of hierarchy . |
| 20 | It was the largest force that Barbarossa had ever led , and was made up of experienced warriors , loyal princes and vassals , the epitome of the feudal army under its divinely appointed emperor . |
| 21 | The night duty was made up of nineteen areas , they made the nineteen beats , and er I had to go with older policemen learning each of the beats . |
| 22 | The beginning of this century produced phenomena which equally emphatically showed that light was made up of tiny particles . |
| 23 | It was made up of tiny dots . |
| 24 | The attacking force was made up of nine Blenheims from 105 Squadron and six from 107 Squadron at Great Massingham . |
| 25 | The Regiment was made up of five squadrons , each comprising 200 men , and they spent their time in tanks and armoured cars . |
| 26 | The whole hospital was made up of various bungalows which surrounded one newly built principal building . |
| 27 | The motel was made up of separate cabins wide-spaced and private among trees — but more to the point the cabin had its own phone extension and twin beds . |
| 28 | The total number in the institution was made up of 138 men , 125 women , and 17 children . |
| 29 | Each day , the meal was made up of baked potatoes and either rice pudding , soup , hashed beans and vegetables or oatmeal porridge . |
| 30 | In these schools ' sets the 0–17 score band contain 1.1 boys to each girl , but the higher score band ( 18–29 ) was made up of 2.4 boys to each girl . |