Example sentences of "is [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now all you have to do is think of number five for me , cos you just say the number . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All I have to do is think of the most unpleasant thing possible . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ He will wake up once his body is drained of all their noxious potions , ’ one of them said , with a grin . |
| 7 | His [ profession ] is compounded of all Natures , all humours , all professions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Oats , barley , turnips and hay are grown and occasionally kale where there is overwintering of sheep on the low ground . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The roof is formed of withies ( willow and hazel rods ) woven between willow rafters . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is to avoid that boxy look that skirts are rounded at the lower edge , especially if the skirt is formed of panels . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is composed of large crystals , like bath salts , whereas Carrara is formed of very small crystals , like fine sugar . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Much of the east coast of England is formed of Pleistocene deposits which yield rapidly to wave action provided that they are not protected by natural constructional forms or by artificial defences , such as breakwaters and groynes . |
| 23 | Peel ( 1966 ) estimates that only about 10 per cent of the area of the Sahara is formed of ergs or sand seas and that these remain more or less fixed in position . |
| 24 | In Example 61 , from Dallapiccola 's Cinque canti , the accompaniment is formed of metrical canons based on the proportions 1:1:2 and the retrograde 2:1:1 , with various basic duration values : Though the words are fervent , the accompaniment has an aloof , abstract quality which does little to create a defined background atmosphere . |
| 25 | The only characters which appears to separate them are the scaling of the disk , which is formed of imbricating plates in O. retecta but non-imbricating plates in Ophiochondrus , and the covering of thick skin over the jaws and ventral part of the arm in O. retecta which is absent in Ophioxhonseua . |
| 26 | There are also anomalous areas of volcanism on , or near , mid-oceanic ridges ; Iceland , for instance , is formed of unusually thick oceanic crust produced by very high localized rates of volcanic activity on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge . |
| 27 | Romeo major is stripped of rank |
| 28 | Like the rest of the Borg , Jean Luc is stripped of all individual personality and forced to walk around with wires poking out from all his most intimate parts . |
| 29 | BULL 's ZENITH IS STRIPPED OF GIANT DESKTOP IV CONTRACT |
| 30 | The roof , which is stripped of tiles , provides the water-supply ; the chimney smokes so thickly that the opposite wall is barely visible ; the few remaining window-panes are stained and the majority are stuffed with rags and paper . |