Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the last major bridge in Britain to be built of wrought iron . |
| 2 | Official circles in London would dearly like to be rid of Irish problems . |
| 3 | People wanted to be rid of neo-Stalinist regimes , they argued , but were not eager for cut-throat capitalism . |
| 4 | Full use needs to be made of tactile and sensory experiences . |
| 5 | Storytellers described its eyes as flashing crystal , and its glistening feathers to be made of pure gold — a single one could light up a darkened room . |
| 6 | Satellite TV facilities allow use to be made of Russian TV programmes and films . |
| 7 | And they turned out to be made of manmade fibres . |
| 8 | Most of the little bits seemed to be made of cream-painted hardboard and enamelled black wrought iron . |
| 9 | Many were so hard that they seemed to be made of solid wood while others shattered like eggshells , but were virtually empty . |
| 10 | The overriding emphasis in all this work was on the ‘ network ’ , which in silicates was found to be made of regular chains or layers of SiO4 molecules sharing common oxygens . |
| 11 | The use to be made of new technology such as ‘ Office Power ’ and ‘ Imaging ’ . |
| 12 | We assumed the white hole to be made of homogeneous dust , that is , matter free of pressure . |
| 13 | It is imperative that provision for suitable hospital discharge procedures is an integral part of contracts negotiated by district health authorities and GP budget holders , and is also included in requirements to be made of self-governing hospitals . |
| 14 | We argued for a more discriminating balance of questions , statements and instructions ; for fewer pseudo-questions and more questions of a kind which encourage children to reason and speculate ; for more opportunities for children themselves to ask their own questions and have these addressed ; for oral feedback to children which without being negative is more exact and informative than mere praise ; for both questioning and feedback to strike a balance between the retrospective function of assessing and responding to what has been learned so far , and the prospective function of taking the child 's learning forward ; and for much more use to be made of structured pupil-pupil interaction both as a learning tool and as a means of helping teachers to function in a more considered manner and therefore more effectively . |
| 15 | Family reconstitution is a technique which enables detailed calculations to be made of fine measures of demographic behaviour to complement the main outlines of population trends revealed by the Group 's earlier research . |
| 16 | The choice of data and the accuracy required of the forecasts depends on the use to be made of particular forecasts and the time scale to which they relate . |
| 17 | He ordered surveys to be made of royal parks such as Windsor and Grafton , and the enclosures to be repaired . |
| 18 | It is 3.5″ long x 1.5″ wide x 2″ deep and it seems to be made of brown Bakalite ( like the old radios were made of ) . |
| 19 | Parts are designed to be made of single materials only , making separation during recycling much easier . |
| 20 | The judge said the case did not mark a sharp change in government policy , and emphasised it was not to be regarded of general application by planning authorities around the country . |
| 21 | It must be recognised that there is another repository of values , language , which needs to be freed of male bias . |
| 22 | It is interesting to note , in passing , that most of them are questions that have to be asked of primary data as well . |
| 23 | The defendant was the highest-ranking White House official to be convicted of criminal offences since 1975 when Bob Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman were found guilty of attempting to cover up the burglary of the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate . |
| 24 | Noriega was the first foreign former head of state to be convicted of criminal charges in a US court . |
| 25 | To them , the outside world may appear to be constituted of broad , impersonal processes . |
| 26 | The face of the Adjudicator in Extremis seemed to be composed of flat green slabs . |
| 27 | The SNC was to be composed of equal numbers from both the SOC and the NGC . |
| 28 | The SNC was to be composed of equal numbers from both the SOC and the NGC , as already agreed by all parties except the Khmers Rouges in the Tokyo communiqué of June 5 , 1990 [ see pp. 37532-33 ] . |
| 29 | The major political event of the year was the announcement by Sultan Qaboos in late November of plans to establish a new Consultative Council to be composed of regional representatives . |
| 30 | The nucleus , in turn , was found to be composed of so-called elementary particles , protons and neutrons , held together by nuclear bonds of the order of 10 6 eV . |