Example sentences of "[be] [verb] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May Justice Minister Kinkel announced that priority was to be given to the rehabilitation and compensation of victims of the SED regime , ahead of pursuing those accused of committing crimes or of assessing compensation claims of those who had been dispossessed of property by the regime . |
| 2 | You have to try and improve trading skills and efficiency and it is vital to maintain organized groups of women and men who are committed to fighting locally and at all levels for ordinary decent decency and simple justice in the way people are treated of course , but we have got also to find ways of getting together to face those problems no one knows how to solve . |
| 3 | After this no records have been traced of Peregrine Phillips , father or son . |
| 4 | The miserable waste ground , where the refuse-matter had been heaped of yore , was swallowed up and gone ; and in its frowsy stead were tiers of warehouses , crammed with rich goods and costly merchandise . |
| 5 | Prof Catford said two studies had been undertaken of family doctors ' attitudes to health promotion and their own health . |
| 6 | The membranes that surround the cells of all modern organisms are compounded of protein and fat , and oxygen given a free run at those membranes would be extremely destructive . |
| 7 | The local financial system has been drained of liquidity , interest rates have gone up and the stockmarket has been falling . |
| 8 | and it 's been drained of blood , it 's all wrinkly and |
| 9 | Artificial plastic beams are frequently introduced , ceilings are stripped of plaster to reveal floor joists that were never intended to be seen , other timbers are artificially blackened to create a supposedly ‘ traditional ’ though in fact inauthentic ‘ black and white ’ effect and render or plaster is removed from walls to produce ‘ rustic ’ charm . |
| 10 | Extensive areas within continental platforms are formed of basement , a complex of metamorphic and igneous rocks of Palaeozic or Precambrian age . |
| 11 | ‘ The fundamental problem with state-owned industries is that they are rationed of capital . |
| 12 | Alliance claims TextMachine can handle text that has n't been stripped of word processor formatting codes and comes with X-Windows and character-based user interfaces . |
| 13 | Just after eleven , more people began to arrive as the pubs chucked out and so Dosh and I ( or maybe it was Freddie ) moved upstairs where we 'd found another front room which had been stripped of furniture and somebody had run a pair of extra speakers off the disco in the lounge . |
| 14 | Clay minerals such as kaolinite , which have been stripped of metal cations together with iron and aluminium oxides and hydroxides , are prevalent in environments characterized by intense leaching since here the large throughput of water removes cations in solution and prevents their concentration in pore waters within the regolith . |
| 15 | There was anger on the streets among ethnic Albanians : the schools had been divided between Albanian and Serbian children and Albanian politicians had been stripped of power . |
| 16 | It would have been still worth one million pounds had it not been cancelled of course , and the item is actually cancelled , so consequently , naturally not . |
| 17 | Clubs are reminded of Rule 9 regarding recording of scores and return of same to the league secretary by the allotted time . |
| 18 | Good things are expected of south eastern electricity business SEEBOARD , which saw a change of top management earlier in the year . |
| 19 | Metrically , a number of features have been considered of value . |
| 20 | Your main problem , however , is that your plants generally are dying of starvation . |
| 21 | IT is obscene that TV Gladiator Hawk eats more than £120 worth of food every week when people in the Third World are dying of starvation . |
| 22 | The children are dying of thirst . ’ |
| 23 | The Kurds have been and are being massacred , and are dying of neglect — our neglect — by the tens of thousands because they tried to escape that massacre , which we did nothing to prevent . |
| 24 | These huge corporations are dying of boredom caused by the inertia of giantism . |
| 25 | I pass by the ward where people are dying of AIDS ; these are the lucky ones — their families have brought them to hospital and they are being cared for . |
| 26 | If she had she might have been reminded of peau-de-soie — but certainly not rayon . |
| 27 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 28 | ‘ I know that a lot of people think I am made of steel . |
| 29 | The Indian bow — the kaman-i Hindavi-is made of cane . |
| 30 | Okay now we 've had this for twenty years so a lot of these have been resold of course . |