Example sentences of "was [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July news was leaked of Britain 's biggest ever arms deal , possibly the biggest export deal the country has ever had . |
| 2 | Such a commitment , which was not untypical , was demanding of teachers and parents . |
| 3 | In places the platform loggia was formed of a row of Doric columns , as at Negombo . |
| 4 | In 1889 , a cyclist section was formed of six members mounted and equipped in regulation kit . |
| 5 | The train was hauled by BR Standard 75069 , and was formed of five goods brakevans comprising one LMS , one SR , one GWR ‘ Toad ’ and two BR Types of van which give ample space for the party of 43 that were carried , the majority of whom had travelled up from the Bath-Bristol area by coach . |
| 6 | We have been warning ever since the company was formed of the accident at the heart of the company waiting to happen : now IBM 's signalling of the death of the mainframe coincides with the German economy heading into the same kind of structural — rather than cyclical — recession that is busy laying waste to IBM itself . |
| 7 | The bracelet made in Paris around 1845 for Princess Eugenie of Hohenzollern-Hechingen was formed of enamelled gold links corresponding with the immediate family circle . |
| 8 | A computer pilot group ( the cascade group ) was formed of six librarians who had microcomputers in their libraries and the group began meeting in December 1982 . |
| 9 | The outrage was enormous , he was stripped of the captaincy and , although he played in the Tests of that year , his career was over . |
| 10 | The Foreign Minister , Abdul Wakil , said the President was stripped of his powers after he tried to flee the country earlier in the day . |
| 11 | Bowe was stripped of his title for refusing to meet Lewis in the ring . |
| 12 | Prince Andrew feared daughters Beatrice and Eugenie — already facing the turmoil of their parents ' split — would lose another source of stability if Sgt Ellery was stripped of his post . |
| 13 | From the time when Ali was stripped of his title until 1975 , the material conditions of blacks deteriorated ; unemployment tripled so that figures of 35–50 per cent were commonplace in urban ghettos ( Roberts and Kloss , 1979 , p.72 ) . |
| 14 | Born in Liverpool to a West African father in 1951 , Conteh won ABA , British and Commonwealth titles but was stripped of his world title by the World Boxing Council for failing to go through with a contracted defence in 1977 and failed three times to regain the championship before retiring in 1981 . |
| 15 | ‘ Ai nt no VietCong ever called me a nigger , ’ was his simple , but penetrating , reason for not accepting the draft for which he was stripped of his world title and forced into inactivity for three years ( only to return from adversity and carry on boxing , often successfully , for world titles until aged 38 ) . |
| 16 | The room he was looking into was stripped of all furniture and decoration ; if anybody had occupied this house since Sartori 's time — and it surely had n't stood empty for two hundred years — they had gone , taking every trace of their presence . |
| 17 | Capitalist economic relations were established in the countryside through the ‘ enclosures ’ , where land became the private property of landowners and the rural work-force was stripped of the land-use rights that gave them an independent source of subsistence . |
| 18 | Hunt overtook Lauda to win the Spanish Grand Prix at Jarama , the fourth of the championship , but then the season-long wrangling and arguing started when it was ruled that Hunt 's car was 1.8 cm ( 0.7 in ) too wide and he was stripped of his points , Lauda being promoted to first place . |
| 19 | In September " Mr. John Wodrow , Minister of the Parish of Kildalton having Represented That the Church of Lagavullin was stripped of many slates , and otherwise much hurt by the Storm , and that it is absolutely necessary That the same be immediately Repaired , otherwise that the Church will become ruinous … " £7:4:0 was granted . |
| 20 | For his fourth defence in June 1938 Lynch was six pounds overweight and he was stripped of his title . |
| 21 | Within a few hours Denwood was stripped of everything , there was not a soul or a vestige of its recent occupation to be seen in the place . |
| 22 | Physicist Fang Lizhi , sheltering in the United States embassy in Beijing [ see pp. 36722 ; 36815 ] , was also criticized for " slandering " Marxism , and was stripped of his membership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . |
| 23 | It was stripped of this status when its majority Tatar population was deported to Central Asia , accused of having collaborated during the Second World War with the Nazi German occupiers . |
| 24 | Lukanov , currently a Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) deputy in the Bulgarian National Assembly , was stripped of parliamentary immunity on July 7 , provoking a walkout by BSP deputies . |
| 25 | President Fernando Collor de Mello , 43 , was stripped of power on Sept. 29 when the Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of the Congress , voted by 434 votes to 34 to impeach him for abusing his authority . |
| 26 | It was stripped of all decoration : no furniture , no rushes , no hangings on the wall . |
| 27 | In September 1907 he was stripped of the captaincy and fined £10 for drunkenness and violent behaviour and in 1910 transferred for a measly £100 to Woolwich Arsenal . |
| 28 | Alf himself was stripped of the captaincy and fined £10 in September 1907 for an episode of ‘ drunkenness and violent behaviour ’ . |
| 29 | A STOLEN caravan was stripped of over £2,000 worth of property when it was stored at an East Durham farm , a court heard yesterday . |
| 30 | Mr Jackson , a well established trader , has apparently left without trace and his shop was stripped of its goods . |