Example sentences of "be [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | DIRE warnings are given of the consequences of taking the necessary measures to make cars more environment-friendly . |
| 2 | Fleeting glimpses are given of the Roulette team from Australia , Team 60 from Sweden and Esquadrilha da Fumaca from Brazil . |
| 3 | As I have already remarked , no details are given of the other party or parties to the transactions entered into by these investors . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Examples are given of the working documents which should emerge from this process , in keeping with a school 's priority . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His village was at the upper end of the valley in which the woman of Lohali had been killed the previous week , and he told me that nothing had been heard of the man-eater since , and added that the animal was possibly now at the other end of the district . |
| 8 | It is hoped that the last has been heard of the practice ( see contributory cause ( a ) ) and that for the future it will be abandoned for what we now know to be more prudent and wiser measures . |
| 9 | He 'd lost weight , his eyes were staring and red as if they 'd been rolled in grit , and his clothes hung on him like a scarecrow 's ; it was almost as if , in the course of the past few weeks , he 'd been drained of the zest and the energy and the sense of confidence that she 'd steadily been picking up . |
| 10 | No indication has yet been given of the price of the G40 , but it will need to retail for less than £11,000 to keep the GTi in touch . |
| 11 | An account has already been given of the proprietary and contractual disabilities of married women at Common Law and the creation by the Court of Chancery of an equitable separate estate which a married woman could freely deal with and bind by her contracts , so far as no restraint on anticipation had been imposed , and which , in any case , she could dispose of by will . |
| 12 | No warning , of course , had been given of the shelling from the ‘ Big Berthas ’ and the public feared that an advance on Paris would soon follow . |
| 13 | The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) was reported in early August to be unable to trace more than a few hundred of the many thousands of Iraqi soldiers who died in the Gulf war fighting , nor had details been given of the location of mass graves . |
| 14 | Now I 'd also in this time rung up the er forwarding address in Manchester , rung up the telephone number I 'd been given of the forwarding address . |
| 15 | Gold has been stripped of the magical investment properties once ascribed to the metal , leaving it to the merciless forces of physical supply and physical demand . |
| 16 | It had already been stripped of the lighting side of its business , the more profitable side , and now the tramway undertaking was to be absorbed into the unified transport system , of which so much had been heard . |
| 17 | The 340X — a streamlined version of the established TI TM34020 graphics chip , offers , according to TI , ‘ all the processing horse power of the 32-bit TM34020 , but has been stripped of the 34020-based peripherals designed specifically for PC-based graphics subsystems . ’ |
| 18 | The Club on the other hand has been stripped of the non-essentials — who needs a luxury interior in a training environment ? |
| 19 | Apart from the vandalism problems they 've had , where whole trainload of cars have been stripped of the radios . |
| 20 | If so , then we are reminded of the violent earth before the Flood . |
| 21 | Thus this demanding people are reminded of the demands made of them , and given more than a hint of how terrible the consequences will be , if those demands are not met . |
| 22 | In concentrating on these issues , we are reminded of the comments made by a distinguished Scottish judge in 1954 . |
| 23 | We are reminded of the controversy caused by Lord Kelvin 's incorrect estimate of Earth 's age based on models of cooling without radioactive heating . |
| 24 | As a last example of the potential role of operations research in GIS and disaster management we are reminded of the logistic problems that faced the Peel Regional Police Force during the Mississauga evacuation mentioned previously ( Scanlon and Padgham 1980 ) . |
| 25 | As this consciousness is immediately intertwined with the murmuring of the River Derwent , we are reminded of the poem about The Brook ( p. 34 ) and the ‘ poem upon the Wye ’ , as Tintern Abbey was sometimes called . |
| 26 | In any case , we are reminded of the spiritual battle . |
| 27 | Staff are reminded of the following welfare services available to them : |
| 28 | ( iii ) Practitioners are reminded of the danger of inadvertently holding out persons as partners in a firm by inclusion of both partners ' and non-partners ' names in a list . |
| 29 | Here are come of the issues and challenges we faced . |
| 30 | I am reminded of the time when we were leaving Italy after a while in the Dolomites and spent all our Italian cash in the last café making a phone call , only to find that the café owner was adding a surcharge to the bill . |