Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] was [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The harbour wall was made of solid concrete in fact the only thing that was n't concrete was the wood that ran down the harbour wall . |
| 2 | In March a Scottish investment analyst was convicted of insider dealing for doing what he thought was his job — advising clients to sell after talking to top managers about their company 's prospects . |
| 3 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council mention was made of the large gates onto the highway which have been erected at Burnside Snow Hill , Scorton . |
| 4 | The licensing committee was told of numerous incidents involving people being attacked with bottles and glasses outside the premises . |
| 5 | Would that it were as easy as sticking your hand up to vote for it Because I have to say that I see no evidence since that motion approving the management initiative was passed of Labour and Liberal members doing any more than paying lip service . |
| 6 | In its last full year the telephone giant was accused of raking in too much money after making £3bn — a massive £97 per second . |
| 7 | Jura death crash pilot was told of dangerous weather |
| 8 | Less than a mile to go as they pinged over the three obstacles set close together at the far end of the back straight , and Mill House was ail of three lengths ahead : as they stretched out round the long sweeping turn towards the Pond Fence , the third from home , it really seemed as if he was at last going to take his revenge on Arkle . |
| 9 | Anyone who kept a pet owl was suspected of being a magician , and farmers would nail an owl 's body to a front door , with its wings outstretched , to avert thunder and hail . |
| 10 | The body framework was made of teak with mahogany panelling and walnut interior panelling . |
| 11 | THE Hooray Henleys regatta gift shop was robbed of its £2,000 stock two days after opening at Henley , Oxon . |
| 12 | The summary way in which teacher education was disposed of at Barry also contrasts strongly with what happened in North East Wales : here , there was much lobbying to prevent teacher training based on Cartrefle College of Education , now merged into the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education , from contracting further ; it is indeed ironical that on the same day , 26 July 1977 , that Gordon Oakes , Minister of State at the DES , declared that Cartrefle should be spared the axe , predominantly on the basis of its geographical location , he should pronounce a death sentence at Barry . |
| 13 | The War Cabinet was composed of Lloyd George , Curzon , Milner , Bonar Law and Henderson . |
| 14 | The laissez-faire economy was conceived of as international , and indeed from the 1840s to the end of the century thousands emigrated from Britain . |
| 15 | Salvation Army was warned of £6m fraud |
| 16 | The Health and Safety Inspectorate was informed of the incident and representatives from the electricity board had been asked to go to the scene . |
| 17 | A compact disc player was suspected of interfering with the flight management of a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 which caused an uncommanded change of modes . |
| 18 | In places the platform loggia was formed of a row of Doric columns , as at Negombo . |
| 19 | His tragic death shortly afterwards was a great blow to me and his colleagues , and the West Riding Education Committee was deprived of an outstanding Adviser . |
| 20 | The Leadership Council was composed of the heads of the country 's main mujaheddin factions . |
| 21 | Video evidence was shown of the devastating effects of bottle feeding where there is no access to clean water increased risk of diarrhoea , respiratory infections and malnutrition . |
| 22 | ( Whereas a primary involved a formal ballot , a caucus consisted of local meetings at which a head count was made of those supporting each of the candidates and , therefore , tended to involve fewer but more committed participants . ) |
| 23 | Cos their shovel was different to ours , but that were n't any good to us cos that was er , cos what they used to trim grain with , now a grain shovel was made of tin and cos our shovels what they used to feed the boiler with were all steel shovels . |
| 24 | 1976 ) the method was modified to standardize the preference scores in step B of Figure 8.6 , and a factor analysis was made of the measured landscape variables in Step A , so that criticisms of the statistical validity of the method could be overcome . |
| 25 | When applied to a case study , involving the overlay of three maps of Papua New Guinea containing 7 , 42 and 101 polygons respectively , the output map was comprised of 304 polygons , of which those less than 3.8 km² ; ; amounted to 38 per cent of the total area . |
| 26 | A FORMER cinema manager was convicted of breach of copyright yesterday after showing the banned cult film , A Clockwork Orange . |
| 27 | The core of the prosecution case was composed of detailed confessions in which the three accused admitted participating in the rape . |
| 28 | The backhaul cargo was comprised of junked vehicles , buildings , pipe , tanks and drilling rig components from Deadhorse , an oil field service area in the Prudhoe Bay field . |
| 29 | Motor racing was deprived of the rare talent of Jim Clark in April 1968 when he lost his life at Hockenheim . |
| 30 | In a street not far from Wymark Street the same demolition firm was disposing of a row of tenements . |