Example sentences of "are [verb] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have to try and improve trading skills and efficiency and it is vital to maintain organized groups of women and men who are committed to fighting locally and at all levels for ordinary decent decency and simple justice in the way people are treated of course , but we have got also to find ways of getting together to face those problems no one knows how to solve . |
| 2 | The membranes that surround the cells of all modern organisms are compounded of protein and fat , and oxygen given a free run at those membranes would be extremely destructive . |
| 3 | Artificial plastic beams are frequently introduced , ceilings are stripped of plaster to reveal floor joists that were never intended to be seen , other timbers are artificially blackened to create a supposedly ‘ traditional ’ though in fact inauthentic ‘ black and white ’ effect and render or plaster is removed from walls to produce ‘ rustic ’ charm . |
| 4 | Extensive areas within continental platforms are formed of basement , a complex of metamorphic and igneous rocks of Palaeozic or Precambrian age . |
| 5 | ‘ The fundamental problem with state-owned industries is that they are rationed of capital . |
| 6 | Clubs are reminded of Rule 9 regarding recording of scores and return of same to the league secretary by the allotted time . |
| 7 | Good things are expected of south eastern electricity business SEEBOARD , which saw a change of top management earlier in the year . |
| 8 | Your main problem , however , is that your plants generally are dying of starvation . |
| 9 | IT is obscene that TV Gladiator Hawk eats more than £120 worth of food every week when people in the Third World are dying of starvation . |
| 10 | The children are dying of thirst . ’ |
| 11 | The Kurds have been and are being massacred , and are dying of neglect — our neglect — by the tens of thousands because they tried to escape that massacre , which we did nothing to prevent . |
| 12 | These huge corporations are dying of boredom caused by the inertia of giantism . |
| 13 | I pass by the ward where people are dying of AIDS ; these are the lucky ones — their families have brought them to hospital and they are being cared for . |
| 14 | They are built of travertine covered with stucco . |
| 15 | Yes , there are towers , and the mechanisms are built of spiderglass . |
| 16 | The warehouses are built of stone and have wooden beam hoists on the gable walls . |
| 17 | Other authorities fill out the Moroccan 's picture : ‘ The houses are built of stone and brick , and the roofs are of wood , ’ noted the Arab geographer al-Umari in his encyclopaedic Masalik-ul-Absar Fi Mamalik-ul-Amsar ( ‘ The Visions of the Kingdoms ’ ) . |
| 18 | Serving inmates are also sometimes removed to these centres when they are suspected of involvement in other crimes . |
| 19 | Fairies are supposed to make tapestries of light beams , but these tapestries of the mind are made of thread even finer . |
| 20 | If they are made of mahogany , the answer is ‘ yes ’ . |
| 21 | The skeletal parts of hard corals are made of calcium carbonate and if this is in short supply they can suffer . |
| 22 | At Millook the cliff rocks are made of sandstone and shale layers which have been folded over millions of years into zigzag patterns . |
| 23 | They are Richard Walker 's Mk IV design of 1½lb test-curve , but they were very expensive rods at the time I bought them for they are made of cane called Palakona . |
| 24 | Collections may be made following a child 's interest in say ‘ shiny ’ things or from the teacher 's suggestion , ‘ Let's collect things that are made of wood ’ or ‘ things with lines on ’ . |
| 25 | But now he 's showing definite signs of not thinking you are made of wood I 'm quite happy to stop taking violent umbrage and to start liking him . |
| 26 | And models of Noah 's ark must be among the most enduring of children 's toys , whether the animals are made of wood or plastic . |
| 27 | The genes are made of DNA , which is both simple and complex , passive yet active , a truly magical molecule . |
| 28 | The trees screw into the base , and their trunks and leaves are made of metal , thickened with specially grown dwarf twigs . |
| 29 | Most sealant guns are made of metal , which soon rusts , and they do n't come with any instructions on how to use them . |
| 30 | ‘ The doors are made of metal and they 're locked and chained , ’ said Toby . |