Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time they had toured the famous house with its owner , studied the illustrious visitors ' book , looked round the study with Mr Luke Fildes ' picture of the Empty Chair in their mind 's eye , and had seen the chalet where Dickens wrote his last words before his death , they were drained of emotion , and it was fortunate that Rochester Castle provided exercise without undue stress . |
| 2 | Their expressions were drained of personality which gave them the family resemblance possessed by a flock of sheep . |
| 3 | This year all major vessels and columns were stripped of asbestos and reinsulated during the major shut-down in July and August . |
| 4 | Faces were stripped of pretence by the pitiless bombardment of harsh reality . |
| 5 | Examples were given of machinery overturning on land undermined by badger workings ; a horse and rider both suffering broken bones when the horse put a foot through the roof of a badger tunnel ; a nine-month-old calf breaking its neck when it fell into a sett ; a young lamb trapped in a sett ; extensive damage to spring grazing pastures by badgers grubbing for worms ; wheat crops flattened and eaten or soiled by badgers ; and numerous examples of TB in dairy herds close to large badger populations known to be infected with TB . |
| 6 | Hundreds of others were looted of furniture , electric and sanitary fittings , doors , windows , roofing , sometimes even wooden staircases . |
| 7 | Two minutes from time the Police were robbed of victory when another Coyle header hit the Tobermore upright and was cleared . |
| 8 | These forts were built of stone tied together with wood beams which when set on fire generated sufficient heat to fuse or " vitrify " the stones . |
| 9 | These forts were built of stone tied together with wood beams which when set on fire generated sufficient heat to fuse or " vitrify " the stones . |
| 10 | After the thirteenth century larger schemes were built of stone but , more often in the north , in brick . |
| 11 | Later insulae , considerable remains of which may be seen at Ostia , were built of concrete and brick and could rise to four or five storeys . |
| 12 | The walls were built of dark , rough stone , almost black , pitted here and there by the heat of the furnaces . |
| 13 | Even parents who were suspected of abuse retained a sense of responsibility for their children which should be nurtured , not crushed ; and even the implementation of legal powers required respect , communication , the willingness to listen , and the desire to reach agreements — not least with the victims themselves . |
| 14 | Hundreds of people were arrested on the grounds that they were suspected of rebel activity . |
| 15 | Pro-monarchist police were suspected of involvement in a wave of violence and arson which broke out after the inauguration of the new government . |
| 16 | Five people also had epilepsy , two were suspected of autism , two were thought to have psychiatric disorders and one had phenylketonuria . |
| 17 | There was one girl called Clara whom she used to meet in the lower corridor an hour before classes began : they had long discussions about Tolstoy , Maeterlinck and Ibsen , and were suspected of immorality . |
| 18 | But they were not always popular among the citizens because they were suspected of arbitrariness and personal bias . |
| 19 | ‘ We have ejected people in the past who were suspected of selling or taking drugs but you can not expect our security staff to make arrests , ’ said the spokesperson . |
| 20 | At endoscopy , a visual assessment and video recordings were made of ulceration and gastropathy ( Olympus GIF XV10 ) . |
| 21 | It would , therefore , have been natural to suppose that genes were made of DNA . |
| 22 | A second reason for doubting that genes were made of DNA was that proteins are chemically much more interesting , and it was already known that at least some genetic abnormalities are caused by the absence of specific proteins . |
| 23 | At first she had let him wash their three-month-old child but Fred 's face had become red and perspiration stood out on his forehead as he held the mite as though she were made of china . |
| 24 | Early waterwheels were made of wood , but as cast iron developed the miller made use of this new material for his machinery . |
| 25 | I stopped outside Quirke the Butcher 's , and noticed with surprise that all the joints of meat were made of wood . |
| 26 | The wheels were made of wood and constructed in the Road Vehicle Shop . |
| 27 | The shelves ended up on the tip , and the new ones were made of wood and fixed to the wall with screws and wall plugs . |
| 28 | At first boats were made of wood which was available in large quantities . |
| 29 | I had met Amazons who cried tears of gold , panthers which could fly , trees whose leaves were made of wood , snakes three hundred feet long with eyes of blazing sapphire . |
| 30 | Early examples were made of wood , but , due to fire risks , stone and concrete were used later . |