Example sentences of "they [am/are] [verb] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serving inmates are also sometimes removed to these centres when they are suspected of involvement in other crimes . |
| 2 | If they are made of mahogany , the answer is ‘ yes ’ . |
| 3 | People who only believe in things when they know what they are made of will feel uneasy . |
| 4 | They are complicated and obviously designed for a purpose , yet they are not alive , and they are made of metal and plastic rather than of flesh and blood . |
| 5 | Scientific examination has shown that they are made of bronze similar to that used in genuine Italic figures from Italy and the patination appears to have developed over a long period , suggesting that they are not modern copies . |
| 6 | They are made of copper alloy and are about 3 to 4 cms in length . |
| 7 | They are Richard Walker 's Mk IV design of 1½lb test-curve , but they were very expensive rods at the time I bought them for they are made of cane called Palakona . |
| 8 | Because they are made of protein they are rapidly inactivated at temperatures over 50°C and certainly boiling would render any you put in a carp bait totally inactive . |
| 9 | They are made of lead and painted gold to resemble the real thing but the crude copies rapidly deteriorate . |
| 10 | Well , he might say that one mental sentence is , as it were , ‘ upfront ’ ( for example ‘ The spectacles are broken ! ’ ) , but that this sentence has a network of connections to other sentences in the mental architecture ( ‘ They are made of glass , ’ ‘ They were purchased ’ , ‘ They are not unique ’ ) . |
| 11 | They are assured of promotion . |
| 12 | ‘ The fundamental problem with state-owned industries is that they are rationed of capital . |
| 13 | They are built of travertine covered with stucco . |
| 14 | because they are thinking of bed … |
| 15 | Many cell types undergo apoptosis when they are deprived of serum or specific growth factors ( reviewed in ref. 15 ) , and this was the case both for the parental and for the cells ( Fig. 1 a ) . |
| 16 | The muddle that these two uses of the word cause is in part Marx 's and Engels 's fault because when they are talking about society based on communal property , that is , before false consciousness arises , they mean by ideology the total process of cognition including language , political ideas , social rules , etc. , but when they are talking of class society where false consciousness is present they seem to mean by ideology something much more restricted : moral , political , and religious ideas and values . |
| 17 | They are dreaming of eating ; this is also a collective dream . |
| 18 | They are too scared to hug them in case that innocent action is misinterpreted , and too scared to smack them when they do wrong in case they are accused of assault . |
| 19 | They are accused of nationalism but they would be , would n't they ? |
| 20 | When they are accused of timidity , trustbusters bristle . |
| 21 | They are accused of involvement in a disturbance on the town 's West View estate in which a petrol bomb is alleged to have been thrown . |
| 22 | where they were , their proper address is erm or something and er , But like , she 's been ill , they 're thinking of sell and having a and er |
| 23 | Meanwhile a row of ten cottages has been put up by a local builder at a cost of twenty five thousand pounds.And although they 're made of plywood , there 's already been one prospective purchaser : |
| 24 | The thin towers are n't covered with silver , they 're made of metal : they were rockets , once , presumably for emergency launching of satellites — perhaps even for defence . |
| 25 | They 're made of PVC . |
| 26 | They 're really good they 're made of paper and stuff not like the ones we 've got at home |
| 27 | Your fingers look as if they 're made of jelly . |
| 28 | Erm cars , okay they 're made of steel but the steel is made from the iron . |
| 29 | They 're made of nylon which is more serviceable . |
| 30 | And they 're intervening of course here on the side of a revolt which is going against the grain of erm of certainly for Russia of course of er of of the attitudes of the eighteen erm er eighteen teens early eighteen twenties . |