Example sentences of "was [adj] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was destructive of the other children 's toys and refused to have any personal belongings in his shared room in the home . |
| 2 | Initially she was supportive of the continuing claim to office of President Barre whose overthrow she did not at that stage recognise . |
| 3 | Jiang Zemin was supportive of the reform line , but was regarded as a political lightweight lacking deep roots in the party . |
| 4 | A heroine of popular culture in Britain and heralded as ‘ the White Queen of Okoyong ’ , she was shy of the publicity greeting her infrequent visits to her homeland and only reluctantly agreed to lecture to raise money and consciousness for pioneer missionary work . |
| 5 | She had believed Thomas was shy of the Dane , but now she realised that the child gave nothing out because he received nothing back in return . |
| 6 | This decision met with considerable resistance from our East German colleagues , and in the end , the only way to overcome this was to steer clear so far as was possible of the art historical minefield that exists in Germany . |
| 7 | It can not be claimed that even as much testing as was possible of the information retrieval systems during the Resource Centre Project has been applied to the discussion in these subsequent pages . |
| 8 | Its styling was redolent of the golden age of motorcycling , from the long-legged , leather-and-chrome look of the bike to the distinctive swirling ‘ N ’ of the Norton logo ( still to be seen on the belt buckle of many a fashionable waist ) . |
| 9 | However , it seems likely that the open expression of opinion on such matters coming to the ears of the SD informants was over-representative of the overtly nazified section of the population . |
| 10 | And as we can see from British Surrealism ( at the Mayor Gallery , 22a Cork Street , London W1 , until May 22 ) she was representative of the rank and file of that movement . |
| 11 | He was representative of the German bench of bishops as a whole , who were more prepared to be the servants of the emperor than of a distant pope . |
| 12 | This restriction ensured that the study population was representative of the range of pediatric Crohn 's disease rather than a select group requiring tertiaty care . |
| 13 | He was contemptuous of the idea that one person 's vote should count equally with any other 's : " It is said , that twenty-four millions ought to prevail over two hundred thousand . |
| 14 | Marx was contemptuous of the ‘ sordid materialism ’ of bureaucracy , and the constant struggles for promotion , status and prestige . |
| 15 | Brown claimed it was himself and not Nicholas who was guilty of the assault adding somewhat implausibly that Charlie was ‘ pure as the driven snow ’ . |
| 16 | Yet there was never any definite proof that Bacon was guilty of the crimes with which he was charged . |
| 17 | The change was not his fault , although he was guilty of the self-deception or he was still talking of ‘ the ploughman ‘ with his team on the world 's rim … ’ ’ . |
| 18 | Not for the first time , Beth asked herself how she could so readily condemn David for being so weak as to love someone who had treated him in such a callous and despicable manner , when she herself was guilty of the very same weakness ! |
| 19 | In McDavitt [ 1981 ] Crim LR 843 , it was held at Crown Court level that the accused was guilty of the attempt if he had not yet reached " the spot " . |
| 20 | If the jury were to consider the handling account first they would reach the conclusion that he was guilty of the robbery . |
| 21 | The IRA admitted yesterday it was guilty of the firebomb blitz on the Gateshead MetroCentre at the weekend . |
| 22 | And still it seemed right still it was free of the slightest tinge of shame . |
| 23 | Tweed drove into the skid , the car responded , he was free of the skid . |
| 24 | Eventually Corbett was free of the town and into the stretch of countryside which surrounded the abbey . |
| 25 | And now that she was free of the fear of encountering Gareth Davis on her walks , she revelled in exploring the grounds of her home . |
| 26 | Once safely through the fire of this opposition they would move into a future that was free of the dead past , lovely as cowslips and silent like a miracle . |
| 27 | She must get out of the house and breathe in some air that was free of the scent of leather . |
| 28 | She was free of the shaming curbs of expedient morality . |
| 29 | By the time Huy arrived at the house he was free of the last traces of the tormentors in his head . |
| 30 | The instant fitzAlan was free of the doorway he was through it , shoving Ellen roughly to one side and racing into the street . |