Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] be [verb] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The board is made of insulating material and a conductor which is etched away leaving the circuitry to which electronic components are later attached by solder . |
| 2 | EPRDF vice-chairman and acting Prime Minister Tamirat Laynie ( previously incorrectly described as EPLF vice-chairman ) was elected Prime Minister on July 29 ( apparently not a contravention of the charter as the EPRDF was composed of various organizations ) . |
| 3 | The rail is made of wrought iron and the rings are made of cast bronze . |
| 4 | The bare hills behind Agadir in the west are built of blue limestones so hard that they ring under the fossil-hunter 's hammer . |
| 5 | William could see darker shadows moving on the garbage heaps and he knew these were rats and that the garbage was composed of rotting corpses and the rats were eating them , gorging on the swollen , putrefying bodies of the plague victims . |
| 6 | Since the 1980 Competition Act it is also possible for the Director General of Fair Trading to refer a particular practice of an individual firm to the Commission , where complaints have been received from supposedly injured parties , or the practice is suspected of limiting competition . |
| 7 | The prelude to this was set by another psychoanalyst called Otto Rank one of Freud 's er early followers who had published a book called the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and in this book what Rank did was to trawl through world folklore and literature , from myths of heroes , and of course there are a lot of those books , and dozens and dozens of them and what he does in the book is he distils all these dozens and dozens of myths and he finds that there 's a common pattern emerges and it 's , it 's pretty stereotypical actually and the common pattern is the hero is born of royal or divine parents , the hero for some reason or other that loses his parents or is cast out by them or is er exposed in some way , erm the hero is often threatened by some outside force and then rescued by er humble people . |
| 8 | Now Vasilissa came to the clearing where Baba Yaga 's hut stood : the fence round the hut was made of human bones , and on the fenceposts there were skulls , glaring out of their eye-sockets . |
| 9 | But the ceiling is made of rough wooden planks and the floor of mud . |
| 10 | The filaments are firmly set in epoxy resin to ensure minimal loss , and the ferrule is made of stainless steel , so it will not rust or discolour , providing a hard-wearing , quality paintbrush . |
| 11 | The postbox was made of white wood . |
| 12 | The Committee is comprised of senior management representing the following disciplines : |
| 13 | The plain was composed of salmon-coloured powder . |
| 14 | The piano was made of beautiful , dark brown wood . |
| 15 | The room was made of unpainted white stones . |
| 16 | She was so interested that she was only vaguely aware the room was emptying of other guests until a waiter picked up their empty glasses and obstinately replaced the ashtrays Roman had borrowed . |
| 17 | ‘ The next thing you will be telling me is that the moon is made of green cheese , ’ Blake snarled . |
| 18 | She believed that as much as she believed the moon was made of green cheese . |
| 19 | At the sides the cathedral is built of red brick and looks like the headquarters of some great insurance company before computers replaced clerks . |
| 20 | Half the size of his palm , the worm-cake was made of bitter chocolate whose only hint of sweetness was in the sparse sprinkling of sugar on its surface . |
| 21 | The façade is built of travertine blocks without mortar but held by metal cramps . |
| 22 | The grass is made of green velvet . |
| 23 | The destruction : it is known from archaeology that the area was emptied of settled occupation after about 1900 BC . |
| 24 | In Example 61 , from Dallapiccola 's Cinque canti , the accompaniment is formed of metrical canons based on the proportions 1:1:2 and the retrograde 2:1:1 , with various basic duration values : Though the words are fervent , the accompaniment has an aloof , abstract quality which does little to create a defined background atmosphere . |
| 25 | Second , the state is composed of separate agencies concerned with the formulation and implementation of policy , that is , it has an internal structure ( Therborn 1978 ) . |
| 26 | The church is built of white Pentelic marble and is decorated by sculptured slabs and panels mainly of decorated marble taken from other buildings , thus illustrating a mixture of Greek classical and early Byzantine work from egg and dart carving to signs of the zodiac and dragons ( 211 and 213 ) . |
| 27 | The church is constructed of thin bricks with wide mortar joints ; its atrium has disappeared but the narthex remains . |
| 28 | Among the threats to temperate forests identified by the report are logging of native forests , the treatment of trees as crops in a market shift from timber to pulp and paper production , air and water pollution , cutting for firewood , and forest fires . |
| 29 | For example , adding a little recycled paper to a package enables them to claim that the item is made of recycled materials and convey a sense of ecological responsibility . |
| 30 | The altar was built of orange boxes , covered with a white silk cloth that Meg had found in the ragstore . |