Example sentences of "be [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence in the present case Mr. Dennis had not been divested of his interest under the joint tenancy when his wife died . |
| 2 | In such a situation the true owner may have been divested of his claim against the wrongdoer under section 8(2) ( d ) but if not , he might still be entitled to sue by virtue of his title . |
| 3 | Proletarianisation has occurred in Latin America because the peasantry have been dispossessed of their land or because their land has become insufficient to support a family . |
| 4 | A capital intensive fruit plantation in the valley floor of a central American Republic can ‘ cause ’ soil erosion on hillsides which are being cultivated by peasants who have been dispossessed of more suitable land for cultivation . |
| 5 | In the western United States travellers encountered the native Americans , the Indians who had so often been dispossessed of their lands and livelihoods by the railway companies . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In four of the illustrations the defendant appears naked after he has been mugged of his clothes . |
| 8 | No details are given of this hitherto unknown organisation , but the platform put forward by the paper looks like pure Thatcherism . |
| 9 | DIRE warnings are given of the consequences of taking the necessary measures to make cars more environment-friendly . |
| 10 | Fleeting glimpses are given of the Roulette team from Australia , Team 60 from Sweden and Esquadrilha da Fumaca from Brazil . |
| 11 | Some other examples are given of this approach , and then some systems are considered which extend non-statistical methods . |
| 12 | At the end of the instruction manual , details are given of how to form the angles for five , six , eight and 12-sided frames , useful for mirror or picture framers who wish to experiment . |
| 13 | In addition to a summary table some specific examples are given of questions and the results they produced . |
| 14 | As I have already remarked , no details are given of the other party or parties to the transactions entered into by these investors . |
| 15 | Fretter and Graham ( 1962 ) quote figures that suggest a rate of boring into limpet ( Patella ) shells of 0.175 mm per hour but no details are given of the relative sizes of predator and prey , or of the temperature . |
| 16 | Examples are given of the working documents which should emerge from this process , in keeping with a school 's priority . |
| 17 | Examples are given of setting up user hierarchies in terms of accessing modules . |
| 18 | Details are given of the Clwyd Environmental Forum , which was set up to provide locally active organisations and statutory bodies with an opportunity to discuss issues of concern to the county 's environment and to promote the interchange of information and experience . |
| 19 | The idea has been mooted of throwing our weight behind her version . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He 's Woodleigh 's cousin , and his heir , of course , unless that 's the older Horbury brother who ran off to Australia years ago and has never been heard of since . |
| 22 | Nothing further had been heard of her either in Finchley or at the Eastbourne club address . |
| 23 | By then Pastor Tokes had disappeared and has not been heard of since . |
| 24 | This did n't work , so he took the girl back to Sweden and nothing has been heard of them since . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Surely , then , word would have been heard of some of them . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Henry II has never been heard of in Israel ( see chapter 3 ) . |
| 29 | Although sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of East Germany his sentence was commuted to one of life imprisonment , but he has never been heard of again . |
| 30 | The simple truth is that most captors of record fish were never heard of before their historical catch and have never been heard of since . |