Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] of " in BNC.

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1 Their expressions were drained of personality which gave them the family resemblance possessed by a flock of sheep .
2 By the time they had toured the famous house with its owner , studied the illustrious visitors ' book , looked round the study with Mr Luke Fildes ' picture of the Empty Chair in their mind 's eye , and had seen the chalet where Dickens wrote his last words before his death , they were drained of emotion , and it was fortunate that Rochester Castle provided exercise without undue stress .
3 Leicester , one of the better teams in the division , made only one significant mistake and were mugged of the points by resourceful opponents who did not make any .
4 Whole supermarkets in the Valley were stripped of their provender in a decorous food riot by the affluent , loading up their Wagoneers with Porterhouse and T-bone as they headed for the hills .
5 Faces were stripped of pretence by the pitiless bombardment of harsh reality .
6 The trees on every side of the magazine bent away from it and were stripped of their leaves .
7 The stolen vehicles were driven to rented garages at Burn Road , Hartlepool , where they were stripped of identifying marks and given the write-off 's markings a process called ringing .
8 This year all major vessels and columns were stripped of asbestos and reinsulated during the major shut-down in July and August .
9 Examples were given of machinery overturning on land undermined by badger workings ; a horse and rider both suffering broken bones when the horse put a foot through the roof of a badger tunnel ; a nine-month-old calf breaking its neck when it fell into a sett ; a young lamb trapped in a sett ; extensive damage to spring grazing pastures by badgers grubbing for worms ; wheat crops flattened and eaten or soiled by badgers ; and numerous examples of TB in dairy herds close to large badger populations known to be infected with TB .
10 Examples were given of regular meetings or occasions which enabled workers to identify and keep track of people in the community , regardless of whether they had the status of an active case .
11 No details were given of the glycaemic control or other metabolic parameters of the two groups of diabetics studied ( Davis et al , 1982 ) , and it is difficult to account for these findings .
12 This same point was made earlier during the discussion of general applications , and examples were given of how it can assist with such things as planning , exploring relationships , putting particular aspects of an organisation into context , etc ; in other words , using it as a basis for creative thinking and logical deduction .
13 Did this affect the image Tanzanians were given of their own country ?
14 In response to a question in Parliament in 1984 , figures based on a 10 per cent sample were given of the comparative success rates of different types of representation .
15 In rural areas villagers had been detained and their houses had been burned in connection with land disputes , names were given of people held for up to 10 years without charge , and many who had been detained spoke of beatings in prison .
16 In evidence presented to the commission in the first few months , details were given of irregularities in the handling and documentation in Antigua of the shipment of arms from Israel and their discovery in Colombia .
17 No details were given of the date of execution .
18 In accounts that were given of first meetings we find that the situation is often important as it is usually mentioned .
19 Burrs of hair were scattered on his scalp ; they were the same muted colour as his skin , as though he were compounded of the dust he played in .
20 Informal trials were undertaken of interactive testing using the microcomputer .
21 Villages were razed to the ground , so that they did not disrupt the view from drawing-room windows , with the same enthusiasm with which the peasantry on the more distant corners of the estate were dispossessed of their wetland commons in the pursuit of productive farming .
22 Children grew disobedient when they knew that they could not be set aside : farmers were ousted of their leases made by tenants in tail ; for , if such leases had been valid , then under colour of long leases the issue might have been virtually disinherited : creditors were defrauded of their debts ; for , if tenant in tail could have charged his estate with their payment , he might also have defeated his issue , by mortgaging it for as much as it was worth : innumerable latent entails were produced to deprive purchasers of the lands they had fairly bought ; of suits in consequence of which our antient books are full : and treasons were encouraged ; as estates-tail were not liable to forfeiture , longer than for the tenant 's life .
23 Reports were received of well attended events held in India , Sri Lanka , Ghana and Papua New Guinea .
24 Forty-five people were honoured of whom six had each given over 50 years ' service to the church .
25 These black clouds were formed of insects called cockchafers , or " flying bugs " , as the English called them ; they were black as pitch and quite harmless , but with a sickening odour which they lent to anything they touched .
26 Pushing the thought away , she stepped out of sight into an alleyway whose walls were formed of stacked drums .
27 Sahlins ' point is to show how to both sides differing types of sense were formed of what Cook 's arrival ‘ meant ’ .
28 Type II foci were formed of piled up cells that stained darkly , but had comparatively smooth edges .
29 But she said that almost as if it were expected of her rather than with conviction — and the family knew it .
30 They were expected of me .
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