Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] was [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief was arrested and held overnight … where he was reminded of the plight of his ancestors . |
| 2 | Although she was accused of backing down , Mrs Whitehouse firmly suggested that she had achieved what she set out to do , i.e. to show that certain acts could be defined as indecent within the parameters of the law as it stood . |
| 3 | Curbishley then won the 300 metres in equally convincing fashion , being able to ease off down the home straight once she was assured of victory , but still shaving a second off the record in 42.2 secs . |
| 4 | He could work with men whose background and beliefs were entirely opposed to his own , provided he was assured of their goodwill . |
| 5 | In fact Claude Bernard , in 1856 , described mucus as ‘ enclosing the gastric juice as in a vase so impermeable as if it was made of porcelain ’ . |
| 6 | ( Prove you did n't print that , and if it was said of someone else , that you were n't tacitly implying it of me ) |
| 7 | Was it only their affectation , to be afraid of it , as if it was expected of them . |
| 8 | As Bull watched , an elderly man with his glasses hanging from one ear bent backwards at a strange angle , as if he was made of rubber , and slid off his seat . |
| 9 | He still had the scar now , twenty years later , a long thin groove down the inside of his right forearm , as if he was made of candlewax and someone had run their fingernail the length of it . |
| 10 | She wore a collar like Aunt Margaret 's but it could not chafe her neck because she was made of wood . |
| 11 | His betrayal of Nicola Hammond ought to have annoyed her — not for Nicola 's sake , but because she was reminded of risks she 'd taken ; of risks she might have to take . |
| 12 | Mr Waite , formerly the Archbishop of Canterbury 's envoy , had been trying to secure the release of Western hostages when he was himself captured because he was suspected of spying for the Americans . |
| 13 | ( I once knew an elderly diplomat who had been much annoyed as a young man because he was suspected of having written under the pen-name of ‘ E. |
| 14 | She had been right to say it was people like that who do terrible things , and if Timothy Gedge did do terrible things it would not be because he was different and exotic but because he was possessed of an urge to become so . |
| 15 | ( And he did n't — because he was made of paper . ) |
| 16 | There was companionship in his silence because it was born of a deep reserve which required help at times to find expression . |
| 17 | The winter of discontent' of 1978/9 played just such a powerful role in British politics because it was composed of extremely powerful images . |
| 18 | He might say that there was a convention relating to such actions or that he did something because it was expected of him . |
| 19 | With an odd feeling that he was asking because it was expected of him rather than out of genuine interest , she replied somewhat stiltedly , ‘ Once I 've a clear picture of the items to be displayed , and which room they 're to go in , I can begin the first rough draft for the catalogue . ’ |
| 20 | While in Texas , Ice also paid a $516 fine that had been outstanding since he was convicted of assault in 1988 . |
| 21 | Also in the series are An Uncommon Murder , which tells how an East End Jewish refugee was found battered to death on Clapham Common , and the story of Louise Masset , the first woman to be hanged this century after she was accused of killing her young son . |
| 22 | Claire McLaren , 16 , was punched and kicked senseless by a thug after she was accused of pushing past his girlfriend . |
| 23 | Mother-of-two Lesley Adams , 28 , gassed herself in her car at her Plymouth home , hours after she was told of the allegation by her boss . |
| 24 | A KITCHEN porter was yesterday jailed at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for two years after he was convicted of sex offences with young children . |
| 25 | STOKE have dropped a complaint against England 's Wade Dooley after he was accused of knocking out an opposing player in a recent Courage League match . |
| 26 | There were renewed calls for his resignation after he was accused of failing to live up to his brief as Minister of National Heritage . |
| 27 | SCHOOLS Minister Michael Fallon has reacted angrily after he was accused of abusing Parliamentary privilege by sending party information to Darlington 's Conservative Association . |
| 28 | JOHN Major was plunged into another U-turn row last night after he was accused of backtracking over public spending cuts . |
| 29 | It is , I think , misleading to ask whether it was made of the patient 's own free will , or even whether it was voluntary . |
| 30 | The institution of monarchy thus dominated the political horizon , whether it was thought of in terms of Divine Right or merely as a secular institution guaranteeing civil peace and security . |