Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] [verb] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nottingham Forest Football Club was yesterday cleared of racial discrimination after an Afro-Caribbean group had alleged an application to hold a pop concert at the club 's stadium was rejected on race grounds . |
| 2 | for example , in Oxfordshire the statutory Education Committee was mainly composed of old-style landed Tories , but with a mixture of keen Trades Unionist members from Cowley , and some ‘ intellectuals ’ deliberately invited in from the university . |
| 3 | The plaintiffs conceded that their product was not made of secret materials but secrecy arose from the way in which the materials were mixed , the temperature employed in various stages of manufacture and the method of testing the consistency of the product . |
| 4 | The train was substantially made of strong timber and my father had painted it green — the livery colour of the London and South Western Railway . |
| 5 | Well it was just their own The the found of the thing was just built of big stones round about the size of the bottom of a stack . |
| 6 | As the immune system was largely composed of white cells , whatever I visualized would have to be white . |
| 7 | A survey was also conducted of senior members for the three years 1937/8 , 1957/8 , and 1976/7 . |
| 8 | Kinison was often accused of spreading hate , although Hicks himself employs far more gentle tactics . |
| 9 | The protest was therefore emptied of serious political content . |