Example sentences of "the [noun sg] was [verb] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The postbox was made of white wood . |
| 5 | The plain was composed of salmon-coloured powder . |
| 6 | The piano was made of beautiful , dark brown wood . |
| 7 | The room was made of unpainted white stones . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She believed that as much as she believed the moon was made of green cheese . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The destruction : it is known from archaeology that the area was emptied of settled occupation after about 1900 BC . |
| 12 | The altar was built of orange boxes , covered with a white silk cloth that Meg had found in the ragstore . |
| 13 | The chairman and former president of the Industrial Bank of Japan , Kaneo Nakamura , announced his resignation on Oct. 22 together with two other directors , after the bank was accused of serious irregularities in relation to an Osaka entrepreneur who had forged securities against up to 240,000 million yen of IBJ loans . |
| 14 | The official was convicted of criminal damage for ramming the craft with a motorboat , then whacking it with a shovel . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The bottle was made of opaque glass so that the contents could not be seen . |
| 17 | In April 1912 , the possibility was considered of running trolleybuses between the ‘ Angel ’ Benhilton and the ‘ California Arms ’ , Belmont , part of the route originally proposed and vetoed by Sutton Council . |
| 18 | Equipped with Messerschmitt Bf109E fighters , the unit was composed of battle-hardened veterans who had seen much action during the fighting over England during the previous summer . |
| 19 | In one was a fat , broad-faced man ; the body perfect and soft , as if just dead ; the lid had been glewed together , lengthways , and the weight of the earth had prest down his nose ; his beard was about half an inch long ; the winding-sheet was crape , tied with black ribbons ; and the thumbs and toes with the like ; the date was composed of small nails ( 1665 ) by which it appeared he had been dead seventy-two years ; as were also the figure of an hour-glass , death 's head , and cross bones . |
| 20 | The five-member majority in the judgment was composed of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist , together with justices Byron R. White , Antonin Scalia , Souter , and Kennedy . |
| 21 | The hull was made of overlapping wrought-iron plates riveted to metal frames . |
| 22 | The comb was made of shiny steel and it was his to keep . |