Example sentences of "had be strip of " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the late 1960s , it had been stripped of its machinery and converted for other purposes . |
| 2 | From their boat , they saw that everything on the island was entirely covered with fine white dust , like snow , and that the trees on the northern part of Krakatoa and Verlaten Island had been stripped of their leaves and branches by the rain of falling pumice , while those growing on Lang Island and Polish Hat seemed to have got away without much damage . |
| 3 | This aircraft , V7101 , had been stripped of all possible equipment and guns , and had been painted blue overall . |
| 4 | If the temple had been stripped of its wealth and its income from land , then the priestly college would have been unable to maintain such a large establishment , since the rising level of the water-table would have necessitated major engineering works . |
| 5 | Before the next race , the Canadian Grand Prix , it was announced that Hunt had been stripped of his points from the British Grand Prix , Hunt , and the McLaren team , were incensed by the decision and went out and won the Canadian and US Grands Prix ( East ) in successive weeks . |
| 6 | No attempt at organised march was made whatsoever , but by the time the Croats , both soldiers and civilians , had passed the road junction … leading to Bleiburg , they had been stripped of everything they possessed , including animals , carts , bicycles , food and personal belongings etc . |
| 7 | The officer in command of Jotan 's escort , whose knowledge of the city was apparently imperfect and who had misunderstood the directions he had been given , had been stripped of his rank , flogged , and turned off . |
| 8 | On the contrary , the Skein of Geese was exactly as Heather had photographed it , save only that the trees behind it had been stripped of their leaves and the croquet hoops put away for the winter . |
| 9 | Four days later it was announced that Tsedenbal had been stripped of his membership of the Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League . |
| 10 | After 24 hours of intensive talks France , West Germany and Italy agreed on June 7 to lift their import bans in return for a UK undertaking to provide certification that meat on the bone came from farms where no BSE had been detected in any cattle in the past two years , and that boneless meat exports had been stripped of all offal and other tissues which could harbour BSE ; live cattle could be exported only when under six months old and provided that they were not the calves of infected animals . |
| 11 | Koffigoh was reportedly taken by his captors to meet President Gnassingbe Eyadema ; Eyadema , who had been stripped of his executive powers by the national conference , condemned the attack , although he had repeatedly supported the military 's demands for a change of government . |
| 12 | A report from a Tajikta correspondent on March 8 said that he had been stripped of his deputy 's immunity by a two-thirds vote in the Supreme Soviet and arrested in the parliament building . |
| 13 | It was announced through local media sources on Sept. 24 that Carlos Aldana , 50 , generally recognized as the country 's third most important leader , had been stripped of his overall responsibility for ideology , foreign policy and culture . |
| 14 | Aldana , once one of Castro 's closest aides , had been stripped of overall responsibility for ideology , foreign policy and culture in September for his alleged involvement in a financial scandal [ see p. 39089 ] . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Paddy Monaghan and Ali have been pals since 1963 … when Paddy , furious that Ali had been stripped of his title for refusing to fight in Vietnam , gathered 22 thousand signatures . |
| 17 | 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 . |