Example sentences of "be [verb] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May Justice Minister Kinkel announced that priority was to be given to the rehabilitation and compensation of victims of the SED regime , ahead of pursuing those accused of committing crimes or of assessing compensation claims of those who had been dispossessed of property by the regime . |
| 2 | How much have you been seeing of Jones during the weeks when I 've had to leave you alone here ? |
| 3 | In addition to a summary table some specific examples are given of questions and the results they produced . |
| 4 | You have to try and improve trading skills and efficiency and it is vital to maintain organized groups of women and men who are committed to fighting locally and at all levels for ordinary decent decency and simple justice in the way people are treated of course , but we have got also to find ways of getting together to face those problems no one knows how to solve . |
| 5 | Almost nothing has been heard of Ben since he went went missing on Kos , although a British couple claimed to have seen him in August on the island of Lesbos . |
| 6 | It has interested me very much to learn from the Air Historical Branch of the Royal Air Force that after the war , since nothing had been heard of Warrant Officer Crane 's Stirling , its crew and S.A.S. passengers , a search was made of the Morvan region . |
| 7 | After this no records have been traced of Peregrine Phillips , father or son . |
| 8 | News has recently been leaked of Britain 's biggest ever arms deal — possibly the biggest export deal of any kind the country has ever had . |
| 9 | The miserable waste ground , where the refuse-matter had been heaped of yore , was swallowed up and gone ; and in its frowsy stead were tiers of warehouses , crammed with rich goods and costly merchandise . |
| 10 | Prof Catford said two studies had been undertaken of family doctors ' attitudes to health promotion and their own health . |
| 11 | The membranes that surround the cells of all modern organisms are compounded of protein and fat , and oxygen given a free run at those membranes would be extremely destructive . |
| 12 | The local financial system has been drained of liquidity , interest rates have gone up and the stockmarket has been falling . |
| 13 | Everyone knows why the riots began : 27 years after the Watts rebellion , 12 years after Ronald Reagan took office , south central LA has been drained of jobs , services , and hope . |
| 14 | and it 's been drained of blood , it 's all wrinkly and |
| 15 | Artificial plastic beams are frequently introduced , ceilings are stripped of plaster to reveal floor joists that were never intended to be seen , other timbers are artificially blackened to create a supposedly ‘ traditional ’ though in fact inauthentic ‘ black and white ’ effect and render or plaster is removed from walls to produce ‘ rustic ’ charm . |
| 16 | Extensive areas within continental platforms are formed of basement , a complex of metamorphic and igneous rocks of Palaeozic or Precambrian age . |
| 17 | For the coarser particles sieve screens are formed of plates or strong wire of stainless steel or brass , and finer wire meshes are used for smaller particles . |
| 18 | A further way of obscuring diatonic chords is by using counter parallelisms , in which every move in the upper part(s) is reflected by inversion in the lower : In ( a ) the upper and lower parts are formed of triads with an added note in the upper part . |
| 19 | ‘ The fundamental problem with state-owned industries is that they are rationed of capital . |
| 20 | THE SALVATION Army was warned that it might be the victim of an elaborate fraud weeks before the charity revealed in February that it had been defrauded of £6.2 million . |
| 21 | Pardy was right and he could n't prove handwriting , because the letter had been formed of scraps of newsprint in the classic way . |
| 22 | Alliance claims TextMachine can handle text that has n't been stripped of word processor formatting codes and comes with X-Windows and character-based user interfaces . |
| 23 | In a situation in which the Crown can only act on the advice of her ministers and where the Lords have been stripped of powers , the Commons is the pre-eminent part of Parliament . |
| 24 | Just after eleven , more people began to arrive as the pubs chucked out and so Dosh and I ( or maybe it was Freddie ) moved upstairs where we 'd found another front room which had been stripped of furniture and somebody had run a pair of extra speakers off the disco in the lounge . |
| 25 | Clay minerals such as kaolinite , which have been stripped of metal cations together with iron and aluminium oxides and hydroxides , are prevalent in environments characterized by intense leaching since here the large throughput of water removes cations in solution and prevents their concentration in pore waters within the regolith . |
| 26 | The key to FABMS is the technique whereby atoms , having first been stripped of electrons to allow them to accelerate in a magnetic field , subsequently have their electrons replaced by passing through inert gases . |
| 27 | There was anger on the streets among ethnic Albanians : the schools had been divided between Albanian and Serbian children and Albanian politicians had been stripped of power . |
| 28 | However , overloading of certain services remains a major problem , and reports have been received of passengers having to stand from Birmingham to Aberystwyth ! |
| 29 | It would have been still worth one million pounds had it not been cancelled of course , and the item is actually cancelled , so consequently , naturally not . |
| 30 | Here we are reminded of studies carried out some years ago in Germany on the personality characteristics of a large group of professional painters and sculptors . |