Example sentences of "[det] is [verb] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where this is born of genuine enthusiasm , well and good . |
| 2 | A third rectangular panel ( adjacent to the central square ) has a strip of a pattern reminiscent of the " cornice " decoration which encloses the central square in mosaic B. At High Wycombe , this is composed of four erect " leaves ' on thick stems . |
| 3 | This is composed of white blood cells , the leucocytes , and various blood-borne and tissue factors — the different classes of antibodies . |
| 4 | This is composed of 50 per cent scientists and a leavening of employers ' and employees ' representatives . |
| 5 | This is made of paper-thin material pierced by a number of small lenses . |
| 6 | This is noted of all . |
| 7 | This is cleaned of any debris . |
| 8 | ‘ Too much is made of this US v Europe thing . |
| 9 | More is said of these specific affinities in section 4.8 , below . |
| 10 | The bajulus Atto may have failed to uphold Charles 's cause in the Rhineland as the emperor had intended : no more is heard of that guardianship . |
| 11 | Flight-muscle homogenates of Hyalophora cecropia and Locusta migratoria will actively oxidize fatty acids by mechanisms not unlike those occurring in vertebrate tissues ( Gilbert , 1967 ) but much more is known of flight-muscle metabolism in the species that use carbohydrates . |
| 12 | No more is known of this , and in 814 and 815 Canterbury received a number of royal land grants , but in 816 a synod at Chelsea attempted to challenge lay control of monasteries . |
| 13 | All that is known of medieval warfare suggests that Lothar and his men would not have been sleeping after dawn — least of all when they knew that battle was imminent — and that Lothar 's scouts would have kept him well informed of his brothers ' moves . |
| 14 | Since Rome has been continuously inhabited ever since , and as Medieval , Renaissance and Modern cities have been built on the same site , very little is left of any of these fora except the excavated site and fragments of buildings . |
| 15 | There were many famous examples , but little is left of any of them except in such cities as Rhodes , where some twentieth century excavations and restoration have been carried out . |
| 16 | Little is known of fetomaternal cell transfer at much earlier stages of pregnancy , though there is growing evidence that NFEs occur in proportionately greater numbers in the maternal circulation at earlier gestations . |
| 17 | However , very little is known of any deaf aristocrats prior to 1750 , but there were some in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , a number of whom achieved political renown . |
| 18 | Little is known of precise wage levels before the beginning of the nineteenth century , but retrospective evidence suggests that Manchester 's spinners were earning between 30 and 38s ( £1.50 — £1.90 ) in the 1790s , twice as much as the weaver exampled by Eden . |
| 19 | Little is known of this period , but the mill had become the property of Leonard Stanley Priory by 1456 . |
| 20 | Little is known of this strikingly beautiful femme-fatale , except that her contribution to early aviation reporting was considerable . |
| 21 | Mid-water regions of oceans are always the hardest to explore and model ; very little is known of this region of arctic waters . |