Example sentences of "[be] [verb] of [noun] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The warehouses are built of stone and have wooden beam hoists on the gable walls . |
| 2 | However , an alternative approach might argue that , if learning does involve making structural changes at synapses , and the synapses are built of proteins and packed with molecules of neurotransmitter , then learning must itself involve the synthesis of new proteins and transmitters . |
| 3 | Portakabins are made of steel and do not burn . |
| 4 | The puppets are made of leather and have fibre glass feet . |
| 5 | These are made of card and feature a tropical tank scene on one side with extremely easy to use cutting to size markings on the back aimed at standard tanks . |
| 6 | They 're really good they 're made of paper and stuff not like the ones we 've got at home |
| 7 | where they were , their proper address is erm or something and er , But like , she 's been ill , they 're thinking of sell and having a and er |
| 8 | He had been accused of spying and held without trial since December 1985 [ see pp. 35544 ; 37423 ; 37727 ] . |
| 9 | Two men are accused of burglary and handling stolen property . |
| 10 | To mourn is to be stripped of self-sufficiency and to identify with the needy on their own level , not from above them . |
| 11 | The heads of a bishop 's crozier and staff were often carved from ivory ( Plate G ) , as were the liturgical combs used by officiants at the altar on high occasions , and the episcopal ring would be made of gold and set with a precious stone . |
| 12 | Thus women are caught in a double bind : if they take a ‘ compliment ’ at face value they confirm men 's right to treat them as ‘ open persons ’ , while if they ignore the remark or reply negatively they may be accused of rudeness and/or showered with abuse . |
| 13 | I have therefore asked Establishment if the room on the fourth floor can be cleared of stores and made available for our clerical staff , and if , as you requested , desks and other facilities for our own use can be got up into the smaller room at the top of the spiral staircase … |
| 14 | Striking the balance requires a long lead-in period to allow the land to be cleansed of chemicals and to create a fertile environment through natural manuring and crop rotation . |
| 15 | For many of these theories computational systems have been developed using very small lexicons that have been sanitised of ambiguity and dealing with a conveniently simple set of grammatical constructions . |
| 16 | This year all major vessels and columns were stripped of asbestos and reinsulated during the major shut-down in July and August . |
| 17 | Like Furlong ( 1973 ) Turner defines the effects of the juropolitical role as being possessed of anxiety and denying the reflexive possibility . |
| 18 | ‘ We have ejected people in the past who were suspected of selling or taking drugs but you can not expect our security staff to make arrests , ’ said the spokesperson . |
| 19 | The wheels were made of wood and constructed in the Road Vehicle Shop . |
| 20 | The shelves ended up on the tip , and the new ones were made of wood and fixed to the wall with screws and wall plugs . |
| 21 | The houses that lined the wide streets were made of brick and roofed in shingle to imitate the homely appearance of slate . |
| 22 | By level 9 , i.e. by about 6000 BC , Knossian houses were made of mud or mudbrick ; some level 9 bricks seem to have been deliberately hardened by firing , which — remarkably — was never again to be the practice in neolithic or bronze age Crete . |
| 23 | The native Britons had lived in groups of round thatched houses whose walls were made of wattle and daub — mud plastered between woven branches . |
| 24 | The book cases were made of deal and stained , were six feet high and about five feet six inches wide . |
| 25 | The animals were deprived of food but allowed free access to water for 24 hours before the experiment . |
| 26 | Dogs were deprived of food and had regular access to laboratory canine chow and water . |
| 27 | A genuine improvement rather than the cosmetic change of renaming took place in Pocklington during the century after 1780 when the old timber , mud and thatch buildings were gradually replaced by newer homes , shops and public buildings that were constructed of brick and roofed with pantiles or slates . |
| 28 | Five of the eight prisoners due to be released were convicted of terrorism and sentenced for life in the famous Rivonia Trial of 1964 . |
| 29 | Past persecutors were convicted of treason and hanged ; the scheming eighth Earl of Douglas was summoned to Stirling and , when he had refused to give up his association with his own particular clique of conspirators , was stabbed to death by James himself . |
| 30 | Since Satyagraha ( 1980 ) was in Sanskrit it posed a different set of problems for the singer than Einstein in which there were no words at all ( other than spoken monologues ) , the text being composed of numbers and solfege syllables ( do , re , mi etc ) . |