Example sentences of "[verb] of [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even the dust and horse-smell seemed to be still with him and he reminded you of Lamarr Dean and Early and almost everyone of them you ever saw : all made of the same leather and hardly ever smiling unless they were with their own look-alike brothers . |
| 32 | Paris , Ader-Tajan , December 8. 250 antique bronze mirrors from a private collection will be sold in the glittering salons of the Hotel George V. The sale offers a rare opportunity to observe the use made of the same object by different cultures . |
| 33 | ‘ You can imagine a series of plastic films with the same chemistry , made of the same material and same thickness , and yet each one having different properties , ’ said Roger Appeldorn , of the 3M Company of America . |
| 34 | It was made of the same material as the coat . |
| 35 | That device — whatever the hell it is — that I found in Magee was made of the same material I found melted in the other bodies . ’ |
| 36 | I must say Professor Hoskin I was rather struck by pictures in the papers today , yesterday of Boris Yeltsin standing over a boar he 'd shot , it was strongly reminiscent of pictures we 've seen of the former president of Romania , Ceauşescu . |
| 37 | There is little to be seen of the former docks now , only depressions marked with stakes identifying the site , but the village remains , where some of the master shipwrights lived who built Nelson 's favourite ship , HMS Agamemnon , as well as many other men o' war for the British fleet . |
| 38 | Ditches and lanes frequently divide up the platforms , so that a rough plan can be seen of the former crofts lying along the lanes . |
| 39 | He does indeed regard the latter case as a splitting of the name " Balak , king of Moab " across two lines ( he calls it " binomination " ) , but that can not be said of the former case . |
| 40 | Rico Gopul , a staff nurse in the villa at the time of the alleged incidents , told the tribunal he had been accused of the same offences as Mr Reid but had received only a written warning . |
| 41 | When we first saw Mark Cottrell 's fabric wraps around his handles/lines we wondered why no-one else had ever thought of the same idea . |
| 42 | His cider sodden mind was causing him to treat his beloved motorcycle in a way he would never have dreamed of a few hours before . |
| 43 | Virginia like most of the mainland colonies consisted of a few ports with an extensive hinterland that was left untouched until the coastal sections had been fairly fully settled . |
| 44 | My celebration consisted of a few beers with my caddie friends at Edinburgh station and on the night train . |
| 45 | The rest of us left Addis Ababa by train on the morning of 1 October 1933 , arriving three hours later at Mojjo , which consisted of a few sheds and huts . |
| 46 | His note consisted of a few words , impersonal , noncommittal , on a tiny scrap of paper written with a burned matchstick . |
| 47 | Nolan J said that the committee had to consist of the same people throughout . |
| 48 | Mr Fallon said streamlining services and ‘ getting rid of a few managers ’ would benefit patients but moves towards a full merger would not win his support . |
| 49 | As the requirements of our living spaces alter , and more efficient central heating and draught-proofing keep our homes warm throughout , it 's tempting to get rid of a few doors or even eyeless to give our homes a more spacious feel . |
| 50 | You think you can be safe by getting rid of a few hippy revolutionaries you used to know ? |
| 51 | Changes in the ways employment , training and welfare policies operate need to be brought about so as to get rid of the many disincentives that exist for women wishing to return to training or employment . |
| 52 | I know of no such shackles . |
| 53 | However , we know of no such defector on that night . |
| 54 | Then , thinking of her own mother , she wondered how two sisters born of the same parents could be so different . |
| 55 | The normal expectation in the construction and interpretation of discourse is , as Grice suggests , that relevance holds , that the speaker is still speaking of the same place and time , participants and topic , unless he marks a change and shows explicitly whether the changed context is , or is not , relevant to what he has been saying previously . |
| 56 | Only the still ‘ delightful ’ grounds of Wilton Castle , ironically preserved as an ICI golf course , tell of the former beauty . |
| 57 | A set consists of a one-to-many relationship between two record types ( relations in the relational model ) . |
| 58 | As for England , although the lute was played at the beginning of the century , the only music for it in any source earlier than c. 1540 consists of a few pieces in the British Library manuscript , Royal App. 58 ( see p. 186 ) , two of which bear titles showing that they were settings of songs by Sir Thomas Wyatt ( ‘ Hevyn and erth ’ ) and Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey ( ‘ In winter 's just return ’ ) . |
| 59 | Its central nervous system consists of a few ganglia , no more than about 20,000 neurons in all . |
| 60 | This states that a pure compound always consists of the same elements combined in the same proportion by weight . |