Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | The van spun off the road into a school fence and trainee decorator Wayne , of Marrick Road , Park End , was catapulted out of the rear doors . |
| 4 | Second , analysis was carried out of the existing capabilities of the Management Committee with regard to what might be appropriate economic objectives for them . |
| 5 | Analysis was carried out of the 1988/9 housing investment programme ( HIP ) statements for each authority . |
| 6 | But it was considered out of the conversational court . |
| 7 | Gerry Boden , the lost boy , had made off in that direction when he was hunted out of the dangerous area . |
| 8 | They made a bit more fuss soon afterwards when Erich Honecker , the former East German leader , was whisked out of a Soviet military hospital in the east and flown to Moscow , beyond the reach of German prosecutors . |
| 9 | The Commission was made up of a wide range of eminent people involved in the existing mental health services , and it took evidence from a variety of those involved in the care of this group . |
| 10 | The building , which was owned by the church , was made up of a dozen self-contained flats rented out to respectable young women who had gone through the children 's home and school of St Mary 's Convent in Bermondsey . |
| 11 | The Donaldson matter was petty and tiresome but much of office life was made up of the petty and tiresome . |
| 12 | This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse . |
| 13 | The television-viewing public was made up of the older stay-at-homes , not the swinging exotics whose exploits filled the front pages of the newspapers . |
| 14 | The group was made up of an educational psychologist , a psychiatric social worker , an educational welfare worker and myself . |
| 15 | The square tower of the church was built out of the dun-coloured limestone called foinstone and so were all the cottages and Chesney Hall itself . |
| 16 | All moisture was drawn out of the dead before they could rot . |
| 17 | For it was born out of a long histtory of protest . |
| 18 | The fluency with which he himself wrote about this period was born out of a particular requirement . |
| 19 | When it was easy to reach this man whose spirit was born out of the best of the desert traditions . |
| 20 | Secondly , the DTB system was born out of the political necessity to involve the small regional stock exchanges in Germany . |
| 21 | UNEP , it is worth recalling , was born out of the 1972 Stockholm conference ; the 1992 anniversary conference will be the time to consider turning it into a full-blown UN agency with more funds at its disposal . |
| 22 | The European Community was born out of an unswerving determination that the countries which had fought each other in two terrible wars during this century should never be at war again . |
| 23 | On one occasion a confused patient with subarachnoid haemorrhage harangued nurses and caused chaos on the ward until she was wheeled out of the high dependency unit for a cigarette , after which she settled down . |
| 24 | However in October 1974 this message — addressed to a former inmate — was smuggled out of the infamous prison , Cuatro Alamos , on the inside of a cigarette packet . |
| 25 | The three-time world champion and favourite to take the Olympic crown on Monday lost vital points when she was ruled out of the seventh race after her board broke . |
| 26 | The youngsters were so delighted when the final whistle went that they all jumped on the luckless coach , bruising his ribs so badly that he was ruled out of the next weekend 's third team fixture . |
| 27 | Two weeks ago he was forced out of a reserve match complaining of cold feet . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They say she was forced out of the National Health service because of no long term care beds . |