Example sentences of "it [verb] be [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been noted of a pioneer like Arkwright that he had " to train his workpeople to a precision and assiduity altogether unknown before , against which their listless and restless habits rose in continued rebellion " . |
| 2 | On each of these points he is able to expand as the result of more detailed observation into which he also introduces his own speculations , as in " it has been broke of [ sic ] through a natural cause because of the texture " . |
| 3 | It has been said of him that he would rather live in his native country , and not be allowed to publish , than go elsewhere and be free to do so . |
| 4 | It has been said of them that ‘ in order to be different they dress exactly alike ’ ! |
| 5 | If it has been made of lead , then I would also have suggested that it was a pommel . |
| 6 | That that that is a just criticism and it has been made of immunological treatment . |
| 7 | Beta is a fine orange star of spectral type M , beautiful in binoculars ; it has been suspected of slight variability . |
| 8 | Diphda is of type K , and is obviously orange ; it has been suspected of variability , but is awkward to estimate , because there are no suitable comparison stars anywhere near it . |
| 9 | Now that Argo Navis has been dismantled , Hydra is the largest constellation in the sky , but it has only one bright star , the reddish Alpha or Alphard , nicknamed the ‘ Solitary One ’ because of its isolation ; it has been suspected of variability , though officially the magnitude is given as constant at 2.0 . |
| 10 | It has been suspected of variability , but at present , at least , the magnitude seems to be steady at 3.1 . |
| 11 | The interior shows the basic form much as it was built , though it has been stripped of its decoration . |
| 12 | It has been starved of funds , and leading politicians with the power to do something about it have done little or nothing , apparently content as long as the radio reported what they wanted it to report . |
| 13 | Well it has been suggested of course that the people do experience personality changes when their behind |
| 14 | After it has been emptied of radioactivity , the cone-shaped plastic insert is removed from the bottle . |
| 15 | It is sometimes argued that certain subjects are better vehicles for a liberal education than others , because they are concerned with the human rather than merely the natural , or are reflexive rather than merely instrumental ; hence the term ‘ liberal ’ has been most often associated with the arts , and in this century social sciences , though it has been used of some science courses as well ( e.g. ‘ Liberal Studies in Science ’ ) . |
| 16 | It has been accused of actually making policy itself , pronouncing on the basis of what it thinks the law should be rather than what the law is . |
| 17 | ‘ As his stepmother , would n't it have been expected of you ? ’ |
| 18 | Normally used as a storeroom-cum-gallery , it had been cleared of extraneous clutter . |
| 19 | It had been cleared of papers ; the typewriter was covered and the chair pushed firmly into place . |
| 20 | THE SALVATION Army was warned that it might be the victim of an elaborate fraud weeks before the charity revealed in February that it had been defrauded of £6.2 million . |
| 21 | Constructed in a hexagon shape , it had been built of logs , now darkened with age . |
| 22 | She realized that she was feeling it too , frozen to the marrow in this bitter East wind which kept whipping her cloak off her shoulders as contemptuously as if it had been made of pocket-handkerchieves instead of tablecloths , her stomach hollow and aching , her head feeling light and aching a little too . |
| 23 | By the late 1960s , it had been stripped of its machinery and converted for other purposes . |
| 24 | On the contrary , the Skein of Geese was exactly as Heather had photographed it , save only that the trees behind it had been stripped of their leaves and the croquet hoops put away for the winter . |
| 25 | It had been born of an instinctive recognition of the damage he could do to her emotional independence and , paradoxically , exacerbated by the way he had deprived her of himself by having her dismissed from that job ; finally there had been his open contempt when they had met again … |
| 26 | He suggested this to a colleague , only to find it had been thought of before . |
| 27 | The haste with which Adobe urged Sun to ink the contract — Ybarra says he was was collecting signatures late into the evening out at Sun 's Mountain View headquarters — is thought to have alienated Sun 's SunPics print division which apparently wanted no part of a deal that it had been told of only days beforehand ( UX No 405 ) . |
| 28 | His smile vanished as if it had been peeled of . |
| 29 | It is hardly surprising , therefore , that deposition should be mooted again — it had been talked of in the Gaveston crisis . |
| 30 | and it 's been drained of blood , it 's all wrinkly and |