Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Raima 's database — now called the Raima Data Manager , but previously known as Db-Vista — is one of the least widely publicised of PC and Unix databases , it has carved out a niche for itself amongst C programmers . |
| 2 | One of the most capable and widely respected of radio managers in Canada is Sid Boyling , with whom I had the pleasure of working , back in those early days of broadcasting at 1OAB where he was chief announcer . |
| 3 | Should a traveller , returning from a far country , bring us an account of men wholly different from any with whom we were ever acquainted ; men who were entirely divested of vice , ambition , or revenge ; who knew no pleasure but friendship , generosity , and public spirit ; we should immediately , from these circumstances , detect the falsehood , and prove him a liar , with the same certainty as if he ha[d] stuffed his narration with stories of centaurs and dragons , miracles and prodigies ( quoted in Freeman 1984 : 95 ) . |
| 4 | You 've all heard of golf widows . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've all heard of Industry Year , I suppose . |
| 6 | It can not happen not because the forms of negation are mindless , but precisely because they are too mindful of meaning and significance , constantly reminded of rationality and purposive thought : |
| 7 | With a stifled cry , she dropped the bolt , stepping back on legs that were suddenly made of water . |
| 8 | If there were any Venusians ( perhaps made of asbestos ! ) they would have no immediate knowledge of other worlds . |
| 9 | Surreptitiously , I tried it , it did n't work , so I placed a coin on the palm of my hand , still it did n't work and I then discovered that the magnet was only made of wood . |
| 10 | It is all made of wood and is in good condition . |
| 11 | Legal proceedings were opened against various mayors including the reformist mayor of Dresden , Wolfgang Berghofer , although Berghofer himself was not personally suspected of election manipulation ( in May he went to work for the office planning and construction company Häussler in Stuttgart ) . |
| 12 | The quoted comments of the NCO are too short to indicate whether he might in fact justify his comments in this way , if he were personally accused of prejudice . |
| 13 | This would sometimes draw Laura in and she would spring tigerishly to Bernard 's defence , especially if some long dreamed of project of his was under threat through lack of cash . |
| 14 | Her three eldest sons had all died of disease , and the fourth had not yet been born . |
| 15 | As a result , Janice was wrongly accused of victimisation and excessive punishment . |
| 16 | Headteacher Anne Snelling of Stratford Grant Maintained School in East London , wrongly accused of racism , is awarded an OBE. |
| 17 | The Franchise Affair ( 1948 ) , a story of two women wrongly accused of kidnapping , and based on an eighteenth-century cause célèbre , was another popular work , later to be made into a film . |
| 18 | The above bare statement of the facts tells nothing of the mental agonies suffered by persons wrongly accused of murder and by the members of their families . |
| 19 | If I were to tell you that this record puts a dayglo platform DM so far up the mule 's rectum that its entrails squish through its clenched teeth , I do n't think that I could be justly accused of exaggeration . |
| 20 | Changes percolate through gradually , much helped of course if there are major social and economic changes , such as the shortage of young people entering the labour market , which will inevitably open doors for women . |
| 21 | We studied a human fibroblast cell line that was entirely depleted of mtDNA by long-term exposure to low concentrations of ethidium bromide as previously described . |
| 22 | The Prince of Wales 's lobster suddenly tasted of flannel . |
| 23 | A craving for the hardest hit of self-pity ? |
| 24 | There was still an hour or so left of debate . |
| 25 | To do so meant of course to abandon the simplicities of pastoral living . |
| 26 | To undertake this kind of management requires considerable knowledge and close personal relations between central and field workers , qualities only bred of confidence and maturity of judgement which can only come with time . |
| 27 | Moreover it is true that in one or two specific minor ways the express tried positively to limit serfdom — by ordering in 1781 that war prisoners were in future to become free men if they were converted to Orthodoxy ; and by reducing the possibilities which had hitherto existed of enserfment by marriage . |
| 28 | Colin Oliver never stopped following his favourite team despite being jailed after he was wrongly convicted of manslaughter . |
| 29 | A police investigation has been launched into claims that two men were wrongly convicted of murder . |
| 30 | To one old abolitionist in 1840 the annual meeting of the BFASS was ‘ only composed of whig radicals ’ and marked a break from the political and religious ecumenicism of the antislavery tradition . |