Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] of [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room was made of unpainted white stones . |
| 2 | To my contemporaries then at this time , a helmet was possessed of immense symbolic importance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One significant development was the emergence of the neuron theory that held that the brain was composed of discrete cellular elements , the neurons , that were physically separated from each other by gaps called synapses . |
| 6 | All the radical soul-searching was born of basic economic security . |
| 7 | The hull was made of overlapping wrought-iron plates riveted to metal frames . |