Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was [verb] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This committee was composed of selected villagers and , as the name implies , settled any disputes over grazing rights and any other similar matters pertaining to a crofting community . |
| 2 | However , the state monopoly of foreign trade was to become of critical importance later on . |
| 3 | This architectural monstrosity was built of red brick in 1882 , and is over a hundred feet high . |
| 4 | The Jewish Brigade was composed of ardent Zionists who carried their missionary zeal through the displaced persons camps of Europe . |
| 5 | The playing surface was made of ill-fitting planks . |
| 6 | Few classes had access to an extensive range of poetry or play texts and little use was made of pre-20th century literature . |
| 7 | Perhaps , Bennett argues , the finding that so little use was made of exploratory methods in teaching was the teachers ' reaction to the presence of HMIs . |
| 8 | Finally , extensive use was made of published sources which for BR in particular are quite voluminous . |
| 9 | Full advantage was taken of sloping ground , or … a broad forecourt , to increase the effect . |
| 10 | However , all was not well ; plants were stolen , work left undone and general advantage was taken of distant authority at Blackfriars . |
| 11 | This approach was followed for some months , so that an impressive list was produced of sensitive organisms , including many important pathogens . |
| 12 | The first film was composed of lengthy shots |
| 13 | The Doctor , the guy with the blue box , could normally be relied on to deal with problems of this magnitude , but on this occasion he had apparently failed to understand that Pool was made of human brains and was in any case crazy . |
| 14 | This survey follows a pilot study of the West Midlands in the Anglo-Saxon period in which particular use was made of Old English charter material . |
| 15 | His membership of the Conservative party was to prove of short duration and he left it for good just before the government of 1931 was formed . |
| 16 | All the radical soul-searching was born of basic economic security . |
| 17 | Part of the harbour , known as the Cobb , remains from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century , when the curved breakwater was built of large stones to construct a small harbour . |
| 18 | The new committee was composed of equal representation of the University and the WEA . |
| 19 | Greater use was made of quiet suburban stations or of quieter platforms on the main stations ; trains left at night and the number of family wellwishers come to say goodbye was restricted to one parent for each child . |
| 20 | A MAN who shot his brother from close range with a .303 rifle was cleared of attempted murder at a High Court sitting in Perth yesterday . |
| 21 | However , the original ‘ Biff Boys ’ , the hearty undergraduate types who had been trained by the Jewish boxer Ted ‘ Kid ’ Lewis , were now joined by others with more controversial opinions and methods ; in August 1932 a nineteen-year-old member of the New Party was convicted of sticking labels on shop windows in London 's Oxford Street urging the expulsion of the Jews from Britain . |