Example sentences of "carved [adv prt] of [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Haydon , who painted Wordsworth on Helvellyn in 1842 , noted that ‘ His head is like as if it was carved out of a mossy rock , created before the flood ’ , and those who tried to penetrate to the character beneath the face of the old man used the same ‘ stony ’ vocabulary .
2 Among those projected are galleries housing ethnographic material currently in the Museum of Mankind , including material from the Americas to be displayed in four rooms carved out of a large space at the end of the existing North Library .
3 Nicklaus made regular visits to oversee operations as the course was being carved out of the lush countryside .
4 A similar , if less dramatic , process ‘ was taking place at a lower level ; new urban districts were being carved out of the rural districts ’ ( Keith-Lucas and Richards 1978:200 ) .
5 He had scarcely known Maggie , could not have known that he could not have chosen a better treat than this mysterious park , with its vast statues carved out of the living rock : the huge-mouthed cave with its mighty teeth , the vast stone giant , his shoulders visible through bushes a hundred yards away , half hidden in greenery ; and above all , the great carved stone dragon with its broken wings , and wild Chinese eyes .
6 They waded through the all-encroaching dust in a series of huge , dark-pillared halls which had been carved out of the solid rock .
7 Things had changed slightly down there , however ; a new parish , that of Christ Church , Watney Street , had been carved out of the ever-more-populous St George 's , and it was at this recently-dedicated Christ Church that the couple were married on 22 March 1846 .
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