Example sentences of "[is] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Indian bow — the kaman-i Hindavi-is made of cane . |
| 2 | The practice of taking only shark fins , for soup , while discarding the rest of the carcase is banned , as is catching of sharks by foreign boats . |
| 3 | Now all you have to do is think of number five for me , cos you just say the number . |
| 4 | What we wan na do is think of some buildings and describe them to ourselves and then work out what style , cos the thing is since the 1960s , styles like we want , like a progression of styles till the 1990s and see what 's changed and what 's stayed . |
| 5 | All I have to do is think of the most unpleasant thing possible . ’ |
| 6 | Everything and everyone is drained of value except as means to my own dwindling and at last exclusively pre-human ends , and I myself am equally a means in the eyes of everyone else , as I am forced to recognize whenever an automaton interacting with me reaches for its own pocket computer . |
| 7 | ‘ He will wake up once his body is drained of all their noxious potions , ’ one of them said , with a grin . |
| 8 | Artegall 's subduing of Ireland is a conclusion to acts of masculine orderly restoration which the book as a whole deals with . |
| 9 | She 's heard of Bayswater and she points up the road . |
| 10 | The truth , of course , is not hard to fathom : everyone 's heard of them and no-one 's heard of us ; therefore they 'll sell thousands of guitars for these companies while we 'd sell zilch . |
| 11 | The truth , of course , is not hard to fathom : everyone 's heard of them and no-one 's heard of us ; therefore they 'll sell thousands of guitars for these companies while we 'd sell zilch . |
| 12 | Ho ho Keith , some wags at the NME have taken to calling MAW ‘ musicians against success ’ because — get this — those musicians who 've had the guts to stand up and be counted like Sinead O'Connor , The Farm , Carter USM , Cud , Billy Bragg , Lisa Stansfield , The Stones , Lush , Orbital and Soho are all ‘ failures that no-one 's heard of ’ . |
| 13 | When he 's exhausted the list , he is n't sure what he 'll do ; he 's heard of pirate stations and Citizens ' Band clubs , but he 'll have to find out more . |
| 14 | No one 's heard of it , it was n't in the Auschwitz or Belsen class . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's heard of your father 's heart attack , and wants reassurance — personal reassurance — that I will be the next chairman of the international network , which of course includes all dealings in Auckland . ’ |
| 16 | His [ profession ] is compounded of all Natures , all humours , all professions . |
| 17 | DNA is a macromolecule ; that is , a molecule of indefinite size ( it can be very large indeed ) which is compounded of lots of smaller molecules . |
| 18 | Its mellow character is compounded of its age , its comfortable lack of pretension and the various roles it has to play as farm , design studio and home . ’ |
| 19 | It is not a condition that the third State be specified by name provided it is clear from the context or surrounding circumstances what State is intended , or that a group or class of States is intended of which the claiming State is a member . |
| 20 | Oats , barley , turnips and hay are grown and occasionally kale where there is overwintering of sheep on the low ground . |
| 21 | Class 321 emu No 321307 takes the Cambridge line through the Bethnal Green station platforms on 10 January 1989 forming the 13.05 Liverpool Street–Cambridge train while , on the right , the 11.37 Harwich Town–Liverpool Street service is formed of Class 312/1 emus Nos 312793/784 . |
| 22 | The weir is formed of stones which shoot fine sprays of water up through the gravel on the river bed in a similar fashion to a jacuzzi . |
| 23 | Instead , the main display , which has pride of place in the store , is formed of discreet cubicles equipped with desktop and portable PCs , from IBM , Toshiba , Compaq and Apple . |
| 24 | The roof is formed of withies ( willow and hazel rods ) woven between willow rafters . |
| 25 | The ‘ Zechstein Basin ’ contains thick halite sequences , the ‘ Fringe Zechstein' is characterised by interbedded carbonates and anhydrites and the London-Brabant Massif is formed of pre-Carboniferous sediments and meta-sediments lying directly beneath Cretaceous strata . |
| 26 | It is to avoid that boxy look that skirts are rounded at the lower edge , especially if the skirt is formed of panels . |
| 27 | Fig 3 shows a diamond weaving design ( Stitchworld No. 425 ) , in which the centre of the diamond has single stitch floats and the diamond is formed of two stitch floats . |
| 28 | The Lorne plateau is formed of Devonian andesitic lavas and tuffs which are contemporaneous with the Lagalochan intrusion and mineralisation , and unconformably overlie Dalradian schists . |
| 29 | It is composed of large crystals , like bath salts , whereas Carrara is formed of very small crystals , like fine sugar . |
| 30 | So what what they 're actually saying is that here is a formal training that will make sure that everybody at the , who goes on this course , comes away with a measure of having achieved those skills because th the course itself is formed of two parts . |