Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv prt] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the 1987 treaty on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces [ see p. 35602 ] the last of the US ground-launched nuclear-armed cruise missiles stationed in Europe under the 1979 NATO " twin-track " decision [ see pp. 30159-60 ] were flown out of the US base at Comiso , Sicily , on March 26 . |
| 2 | The party appointments came after the leadership had authorised a statement formally apologising to the Czechoslovak people for leading the country into its latest crisis , before they were hustled out of the building because the cleaners wanted to go home . |
| 3 | The lifters were tested three weeks ago and were booted out of the Olympics for taking Clenbuterol . |
| 4 | The winning department was given two tea sets and the names of the employees were picked out of a hat to find the winners . |
| 5 | A vacuum cleaner nozzle was inserted into a hole in the lining and all the wrinkles were sucked out of the material to leave a completely smooth , seamless finish . |
| 6 | Having read about the way in which Adam and Eve were beguiled out of the garden , Christians settle for being innocent as doves and leave others to be wise as serpents . |
| 7 | ‘ We were robbed out of the game , ’ said an angry Chapman . |
| 8 | Trees were cleared from the banks , and raised flood-banks were built out of the dredged material alongside the stream course . |
| 9 | After 1800 the railways increased this trade and docks were built out of the mudflats along the waterfront of the Humber itself . |
| 10 | Most of the conglomerates which were made up of a disparate collection of businesses have failed . |
| 11 | Either they were made up of a large number of bronze rods , hammered to shape and soldered together . |
| 12 | But even the grand measures had their component parts , were made up of a multitude of successes and failures : the outcome of the co-operative movement in Ajdabiya depended on a variety of judgements — by officials , by shopkeepers and by customers — and hence on the social relation which affected them . |
| 13 | Although at the time they were made up of an apparently infinite chain of familiar days , I can think of them now only as a whole . |
| 14 | In the early 1980s , 80 per cent of agricultural exports were made up of the following items , in order of importance : coffee , sugar , soya beans , oil seed meal and oil-cake , cotton , cocoa , bananas , beef and live cattle , maize and wheat ( López Cordovez 1982 ) . |
| 15 | But it is evident that the species is now a regular winter visitor on a large scale , although the data available to des Forges and Harber suggested that the winter flocks were made up of the breeding population , non-breeding birds and the young of the year , except in very cold weather ; this can not be so today , although cold weather influxes still occur . |
| 16 | Substantial payments were made out of the Forest revenues for these and other purposes relating to the maintenance and upkeep of the castle . |
| 17 | However , speaking to Hot Press 's George Byrne at a later date , Johnny Marr attempted to dispel the controversy surrounding Gannon : ‘ Things were made out of the situation which we did n't intend . |
| 18 | Whether payments were made out of the temple 's revenues to sustain the king 's household is not known . |
| 19 | He marvelled at the girl 's patience as her charge ran hither and thither , collecting shells and seaweed , splashing in the waves at the water 's edge , letting out little shrieks of excitement and then relapsing into relative quietness when food and drink were produced out of a knapsack . |
| 20 | Suspicions were got out of the way . |
| 21 | Closed basins as deep as 135 feet were bitten out of the underlying basalt . |
| 22 | The Benefits Agency spokesman said the figures for budget loans showed that 7,509 people were helped out of the 13,060 applications made . |
| 23 | For crisis loans , helping customers meet expenses in an emergency , 3,315 people were helped out of the 3,508 applications made . |
| 24 | They still include many high flyers ; but Mr Cormack shows that an appreciable number are now likely to be modest attainers who were crowded out of a place at home . |
| 25 | The floorboards , the great sweeping staircase , its balustrade and newels , were fashioned out of the most expensive materials . |
| 26 | Tim Roberts , defending , said both men bitterly regretted their actions ‘ which were born out of a moment 's folly ’ . |
| 27 | In the population served by Oxford Regional Health Authority during the year to September 1990 , 978 boys were circumcised out of a total estimated population of 299 600 — a rate of 0.33% a year ( statistics unit of Oxford Regional Health Authority ) . |
| 28 | TENNIS : Ivan Lendl and John McEnroe were bundled out of the German Open in the second round yesterday by Italians who were still schoolboys when the pair were in their prime . |
| 29 | Because much of its crude is of a variety that is expensive to refine and bring to market , it is trying to lure back the foreigners who were kicked out of the business two decades ago . |
| 30 | It rained most of the time , and when we were kicked out of the youth hostel for the day we walked around and sat in bus shelters . |