Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He strode towards what was left of the undergrowth and started cutting it down . |
| 2 | Portraiture has a namby-pamby ‘ not-quite- serious-art ’ reputation , because of what 's wanted of the painters . ’ |
| 3 | The civil zone still poses many difficult problems of chronology in the framework of what is known of the historical narrative . |
| 4 | She would fall thirty feet to the beach below , and they would find her , crushed and broken , beneath what was left of the chair . |
| 5 | Pike 's face was now pressed firmly into what was left of the Quigleys ' wallpaper . |
| 6 | They seem to be inconsistent with what is known of the laws of nature . |
| 7 | Something snapped inside her and she found herself grabbing the mutton and wresting the plate , with what was left of the uncut joint still on it , and running with it from his crazed presence . |
| 8 | Before they went to bed they had filled buckets with what was left of the pool to use in the lavatories . |
| 9 | And after her first day 's work , which proved her promise that she liked housework , Peggy plied her with what was left of the Christmas fare . |
| 10 | Here , finely placed , above what is left of the old ramparts , is one of the town 's two quite splendid churches , the church of Sainte-Croix . |
| 11 | that a major consultation has been going on in one is reminded of the earlier discussion about er St Albans , twelve thousand questionnaires have been sent out and there |
| 12 | Doubly fortunate is the journalist who can within 24 hours leave Beirut and look upon what is left of the world Damiani lost on that April day when the Argentina sailed out of Jaffa harbour for Beirut , carrying his family from Palestine for the last time . |
| 13 | Today no-one — with the possible exception of members of his family - seriously believes that Wallenberg is still alive somewhere in what is left of the Gulag Archipelago , four and a half years into perestroika . |
| 14 | It is the Armenians who live in what is left of the Armenian Republic — in the Soviet Republic of the same name — who perhaps have the only fragile opportunity of one day restoring their nation ; just as the Arab inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza Strip are now the only Palestinians to be able to fight with any effect for their statehood . |
| 15 | Similar strata occur in what is left of the Westphalian Coal Measures : in addition to the effects of the present cycle of erosion , the Westphalian and some of the older strata in many of the fault blocks have been removed by erosion beneath the Hercynian Unconformity . |
| 16 | The radicals ' role in the removal of Mr Cosic has triggered dissent in Montenegro , the junior partner in what is left of the Yugoslav federation . |
| 17 | The yellow and orange feathers that form the head flash can be quite inconspicuous at times but when I spread them out with my fingers they burned like flame in what was left of the winter light . |
| 18 | At first the water made no difference but eventually the flames began to die until what was left of the bed was nothing but black smouldering ash . |
| 19 | Moving from what is expected of the education system , the next three articles look at aspects of the circumstances in which schools attempt to meet these aims . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , such discovery is often of limited value , since by the time the site is recognized and reported , it is usually more than half destroyed : in most cases , there is little time for archaeologists to salvage information from what is left of the site . |
| 21 | That would lead to him being stripped of the WBC title and Lewis declared champion . |
| 22 | They both sat down in the deeply cushioned cane chairs and looked out over what was left of the original coconut grove , now a building-site . |
| 23 | In any case , the Marko of the epic poems bears little resemblance to what is known of the historical character whose name he bears . |
| 24 | If you study the UKCC 's Code of Professional Conduct ( Appendix 1 ) you will see that the criteria for desired outcomes relates directly to what is expected of the registered nurse and health visitor . |
| 25 | ‘ Have n't the police any clues as to what 's become of the poor girl ? ’ |
| 26 | Staying on the coastal highway , you come in turn to what 's left of the cities of Philadelphia , Baltimore and Washington DC . |
| 27 | There 's quite a lot of the broch showing , too , almost the complete circle , with one very high bit where I 'm told there are steps going up to what 's left of the top level , with a view . ’ |
| 28 | The software company which supplied the package is not unsympathetic but claims that it was just not given clear and sufficient guidance as to what was expected of the software . |
| 29 | The first is its lack of certainty as to what was required of the health authority . |
| 30 | She stayed loyal to what was left of the Shelley circle . |