Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunderland are starved of cash and will probably be unable to meet the financial requirements of both Everton and the player . |
| 2 | What , he wondered indignantly , had Olga been thinking of to countenance this ? |
| 3 | Some terraces such as those recently demolished at Monarch Hill were constructed of chalk blocks rendered with cement externally . |
| 4 | In January 1953 the universities and the WEA were told of the Minister 's intention to cut grant-aid towards their adult education work by 10% for the educational year beginning the following August . |
| 5 | He and his wife Ann were unstinting of their time in attending lectures , functions and committees and they won the affection and admiration of a great many people at all levels . |
| 6 | Last night Oftel and its chief Ian Byatt were accused of failing to act in the public 's interests . |
| 7 | The detectives were faced with a difficult job after Thomas and Margaret Wright were robbed of their £4,800 New Year 's Day takings at the Bay Horse pub in Bishop Auckland on January 2 , 1991 . |
| 8 | Like the rest of the Borg , Jean Luc is stripped of all individual personality and forced to walk around with wires poking out from all his most intimate parts . |
| 9 | I see myself drawing closer to Claudia Cohn-Casson , but not necessarily in the way that S. O. Letterman is expecting of me . |
| 10 | Sir David is assured of the support of Sir Claus Moser , newly-elected President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , Warden of Wadham College , Oxford , and a former head of the Government Statistical Service from 1967 to 1978 . |
| 11 | It is not a condition that the third State be specified by name provided it is clear from the context or surrounding circumstances what State is intended , or that a group or class of States is intended of which the claiming State is a member . |
| 12 | As expected , the city continued to celebrate Friday 's joining of the E M S and fourteen per cent base rates . |
| 13 | In almost two years that expectation has evaporated , and now Hick is thought of by many as a mere one-day specialist , someone whose England place has survived only because of his limited-overs achievements ( 697 runs from 23 internationals at an average of 38 ) and his all-round ability as a fielder and more than useful off-spinner . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , as Europe 's electronics companies demand that the European Commission protect them from Japanese competition , NEC is thinking of taking a stake in Groupe Bull , France 's loss-making state-owned computer maker . |
| 15 | Spenser is thinking of a class of person within a distinctive social framework . |
| 16 | As we have seen in an earlier chapter , by gentleman or noble person Spenser is thinking of a distinctive class of person , but his desire to fashion gentlemen nevertheless might be seen as directed at individual development . |
| 17 | One of the 17th-century gardening writers remarked that " Verbascum is called of the Latines Candela regia … because the elder age used the stalks dipped in suet to burne , whether at funeralls or otherwise . " |
| 18 | Narayan Raghavan Pillai was born of Nair ( warrior ) stock on July 24 1898 at Trivandrum , in the state of Travancore and Cochin . |
| 19 | Thus , a few years later , when Polanski was accused of drugging and raping a thirteen-year-old girl in Jack Nicholson 's home , it was — some said — time for him to go , and he has been exiled in Paris ever since . |
| 20 | On CNN 's chat show , Morley was accused of peddling ‘ garbage ’ , of ‘ disgraceful journalism ’ and worse . |
| 21 | Via the half-reliable morsels of intelligence that pass from continent to continent along this jungle-drummed , smoke-signalled messageway , it appeared that William the Choco of Santa Fé in Darién was possessed of an unusual link with a great historical moment . |
| 22 | It is evident that Polybius self-consciously turned this meeting Into a Socratic episode , and Paul Friedlander was reminded of the opening scene of the " Greater Alcibiades " ( Am . |
| 23 | Although by no means the sensitive type , Eleanor was possessed of a certain amount of native wit , and she had a feeling that she might be able to play quite an interesting — little game with her two old adversaries . |
| 24 | Although Gregory states in his Histories that Quintianus of Rodez was suspected of treason by the Visigoths , in his Life of the bishop he reveals that the local catholics were opposed to him , because he had moved the bones of a favourite saint . |
| 25 | Prince Andrew feared daughters Beatrice and Eugenie — already facing the turmoil of their parents ' split — would lose another source of stability if Sgt Ellery was stripped of his post . |
| 26 | Edwin Montagu was accused of anti-British motives for his Indian policy ; with Reading as Viceroy there were openings for the diehards " latent anti-semitism . |
| 27 | While Cliff Richard was accused of ‘ crude exhibitionism ’ by the moral majority for his regular slots on Oh Boy ! , the BBC was putting together a youth institution . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't know whether they could n't accept what Richard was accused of doing , or whether they did n't understand why I was standing by him , ’ says Margaret . |
| 29 | You must remember Templecombe was made of stone and the chambers on the top gallery had no wooden wainscoting so the fire had n't spread . |
| 30 | It was the last Lucy was to see of her . |