Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [am/are] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people of Israel are thought of as a people chosen by God who are to separate themselves from the rest of the peoples of the earth by a series of laws that distinguish the holy time ( sabbath ) from profane time , clean foods from unclean foods , clean from unclean bodily states and holy from unholy places . |
| 2 | The pyramids of Egypt are constructed of limestone blocks in which the species Nummulites gizehensis is conspicuous ( opposite p. 64 ) . |
| 3 | The camps of Mordovia are known of by all citizens . |
| 4 | Paul Jones of Lidbrook and Mark Weaver and Peter Barkett of Coleford are accused of serious assaults on police , after a sergeant was said to have been headbutted and punched . |
| 5 | Often their husbands are much older than them , not so much for traditional reasons as because men settled in Britain are considered of higher status and class and therefore , being more desirable as sons-in-law , they can find young brides . |
| 6 | The collages at Scheibler are composed of black and white ink drawings ; onto these Anderson has applied anatomical elements from early twentieth-century medical plates , reprinted on coloured paper by a copper heliogravure process . |