Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] [adv] of [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This meant that , instead of being composed entirely of separate infantry , cavalry , motorized , engineering , supplies and medical units , it also contained battalions each of which had its own infantry , cavalry , motorized , etc. sections .
2 They were never intended to be observed out of mere formality and empty ritual .
3 This plant much prefers to be kept out of direct sunlight .
4 For the first period , local historical societies or historians with local interests are increasingly publishing lay subsidy and other early records , which permit a ( sometimes incomplete ) picture to be built up of local populations and the relative prosperity of individual heads of family .
5 Its profile was an irregular parallelogram , and it appeared to be made up of interlocking blocks of crystalline metal .
6 What is important is that your essay needs to be made up of logical or structural relations between points ( e.g. cause and effect , consequence , incompatibility , counter-example ) , not just of a list .
7 Most physiological psychologists expect the brain to be made up of complementary modules and that lesions will produce double dissociations .
8 New prisons are likely to be made up of self-contained units holding 50–100 prisoners , with cells opening into a central area for staff observation .
9 This life-principle was very important to the early alchemists : they saw it as so real that , not only did they consider all entities to be made up of differing proportions of dead matter and life force ( spirit ) , they tried to use the spirit as , in essence , just one more chemical .
10 And there certainly is money to be made out of hard news as the idiosyncratic Ted Turner has proved with his Cable News Network ( CNN ) .
11 Mr Glen said the bypass would have to be blasted out of solid rock .
12 The succession at the margin of the platform appears to be composed mainly of oolitic grainstones , although these have only been described so far from Poland ( Peryt et al. 1978 ) .
13 The set of favoured firms is likely to be composed mainly of research-intensive firms or firms with enormous manufacturing expertise , and the odds are that such firms may have discovered the information for themselves through their own R&D before it spills over to them from rivals .
14 In the first well the upper unit appears to be porous and by analogy with the Z2 Carbonate elsewhere the porosity is thought to be composed mainly of intergranular and intragranular pores .
15 Legal Aid — Costs — Jurisdiction to award — Defendant initially unassisted but subsequently obtaining legal aid — Plaintiff legally aided throughout — House of Lords making order for defendant 's costs incurred while unassisted person to be paid out of legal aid fund — Order suspended to allow Legal Aid Board to object — Whether House of Lords making ‘ order forthwith ’ — Whether jurisdiction to make order — Legal Aid Act 1988 ( c. 34 ) , s. 18(1) ( 2 ) — Civil Legal Aid ( General ) Regulations 1989 ( S.I .
16 After a long and uphill struggle , lasting for most of the 1950s , Margery Fry had persuaded the Howard League and the newly formed Justice to take up the cause of monetary restitution to be paid out of public funds to those who had suffered personal injury from acts of criminal violence .
17 An order may only be made against the legal aid fund if : ( a ) an order for costs would be made in any event ; ( b ) the proceedings were instituted by the assisted party and the unassisted party would suffer severe financial hardship unless an order were made ; and ( c ) in any case the court is satisfied that it is just and equitable for the costs to be paid out of public funds ( Legal Aid Act 1988 , s18(4) ) .
18 For those currencies in respect of which the home authorities allow bonds to be issued out of foreign centres , most structuring of issues and about 65% of primary issuance have taken place in London in recent years .
19 As with any extra BBC service , it had to be financed out of existing revenue , for there was no separate licence fee or earmarked increase .
20 Other public sector bodies have adopted a similar approach , although recent years have witnessed a growing tendency , particularly in the nationalized industries , for an increasing proportion of capital expenditure to be financed out of current expenditure .
21 When portions of present-day Indian pueblos occupied since that time are uncovered , their walls prove to be laid up of long pours of puddled mud .
22 Equally the way in which economic activity has increasingly come to be organized within the company rather than through the market is something to be celebrated instead of feared .
23 The chosen means of achieving this end was to provide local authorities with central government funds which could be used for housing construction and enable the level of rents to be subsidized out of general Exchequer funds — in other words , the framework of the system of public housing finance with which we are familiar today .
24 Peter Davis , leader of a delegation from the local Conservative Association , said yesterday : ‘ We feel the racecourse would benefit by being taken out of local authority hands . ’
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