Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Raima 's database — now called the Raima Data Manager , but previously known as Db-Vista — is one of the least widely publicised of PC and Unix databases , it has carved out a niche for itself amongst C programmers . |
| 2 | Examples have been widely attested of learners who exhibit correct performance on certain forms , and then lapse into deviance later on . |
| 3 | One of the most capable and widely respected of radio managers in Canada is Sid Boyling , with whom I had the pleasure of working , back in those early days of broadcasting at 1OAB where he was chief announcer . |
| 4 | Should a traveller , returning from a far country , bring us an account of men wholly different from any with whom we were ever acquainted ; men who were entirely divested of vice , ambition , or revenge ; who knew no pleasure but friendship , generosity , and public spirit ; we should immediately , from these circumstances , detect the falsehood , and prove him a liar , with the same certainty as if he ha[d] stuffed his narration with stories of centaurs and dragons , miracles and prodigies ( quoted in Freeman 1984 : 95 ) . |
| 5 | I know we have all heard of cases where someone has smoked sixty cigarettes a day and still lived to a ripe old age — but is it really worth taking the chance ? |
| 6 | ‘ Parents have to rely on references to gauge their backgrounds , and we 've all heard of cases when references are forged . |
| 7 | You 've all heard of golf widows . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've all heard of Industry Year , I suppose . |
| 9 | We have all heard of examples of the deepest psychological states being cured with a 6c potency and at the other extreme a 50M being needed for a sprained ankle . |
| 10 | We have all heard of John Ruskin , only a minor artist , but a self-appointed and probably most influential overseer of Victorian aesthetics . |
| 11 | It was n't just forests that the Americans destroyed — a lot of farmland is only now sufficiently drained of herbicides to be planted with rice again . |
| 12 | It can not happen not because the forms of negation are mindless , but precisely because they are too mindful of meaning and significance , constantly reminded of rationality and purposive thought : |
| 13 | One way of avoiding anxiety is not to be constantly reminded of individuals . |
| 14 | With a stifled cry , she dropped the bolt , stepping back on legs that were suddenly made of water . |
| 15 | If there were any Venusians ( perhaps made of asbestos ! ) they would have no immediate knowledge of other worlds . |
| 16 | In Eliot 's view , the circumstances have changed so greatly over thirty years since 1924 that what was rightly said of Milton in that year can not rightly be said of him in 1954 . |
| 17 | Surreptitiously , I tried it , it did n't work , so I placed a coin on the palm of my hand , still it did n't work and I then discovered that the magnet was only made of wood . |
| 18 | Robert does n't want too much made of Henry 's early days , but the fact is , he saved the six-month-old pup' life . |
| 19 | It is all made of wood and is in good condition . |
| 20 | But when I looked down , I saw the board was all made of bones and wire ; and I screamed and you said , " Swim — everybody swim " ; and then I was looking for you everywhere and trying to drag you out of a hole in the bank . |
| 21 | Legal proceedings were opened against various mayors including the reformist mayor of Dresden , Wolfgang Berghofer , although Berghofer himself was not personally suspected of election manipulation ( in May he went to work for the office planning and construction company Häussler in Stuttgart ) . |
| 22 | This is basically made of mangoes and chopped green peppers . |
| 23 | Spenser obviously approved of Grey 's measures . |
| 24 | The quoted comments of the NCO are too short to indicate whether he might in fact justify his comments in this way , if he were personally accused of prejudice . |
| 25 | This would sometimes draw Laura in and she would spring tigerishly to Bernard 's defence , especially if some long dreamed of project of his was under threat through lack of cash . |
| 26 | " Fressen " is only used of humans when the speaker wishes to be rude or sarcastic . |
| 27 | Her three eldest sons had all died of disease , and the fourth had not yet been born . |
| 28 | As a result , Janice was wrongly accused of victimisation and excessive punishment . |
| 29 | Headteacher Anne Snelling of Stratford Grant Maintained School in East London , wrongly accused of racism , is awarded an OBE. |
| 30 | The Franchise Affair ( 1948 ) , a story of two women wrongly accused of kidnapping , and based on an eighteenth-century cause célèbre , was another popular work , later to be made into a film . |