"to be empty of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe something that has none of the things it previously contained. For example: "The glass was empty of water."
By understanding what empty things are supposed to be empty of we simultaneously gain a more precise understanding of the concept of emptiness.
"He'd say, 'I'd love the city to be empty of Arabs, but since they are here we need to serve them, because if we treat them badly they will hate us more,"' said Tom Segev, an Israeli historian who ran Mr. Kollek's office for two years in the late 1970s.
Mr Kollek's call for Arabs to get the same municipal services as Jews ("I'd love the city to be empty of Arabs, but since they are here we need to serve them"), his excellent relations with the local mukhtars and his emphasis on "pluralism" put him well to the left of most of his Jewish voters.
During the worst weeks of the outbreak last spring, average occupancy rates at hotels, including world-famous prestige properties like the Peninsula and the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong, dropped to the point where on some nights, some prominent hotels were said to be empty of guests.
The Last Man in Russia ends with vignettes in which Bullough sees hope: a small church whose congregation projects the sense of community feeling that he misses in a country that he otherwise considers to be empty of trust; the election protests of 2011-2012; and an encounter, in the St Paraskeva Cemetery in Moscow, with a woman whose husband was saved from vodka suicide by Father Dmitry.
By then, fisherman like Jaap Bond will have given up their trade and the waters of the IJsselmeer are likely to be empty of eels.
In coming months, a municipal building next to the Circus Maximus is to be emptied of civil servants to make room for the Great Museum of Roman History.
The whole complex seems likely to be emptied of its last residents by the end of the month, since wintertime evictions are forbidden in France.
Instruments and electrical equipment are susceptible to damage, and the Sculpture Garden also has to be emptied of patrons when it rains.
The ultimate aim is to invent a toilet technology that doesn't require sewers or water for flushing, and doesn't need to be emptied of raw waste.
Late last year the Government ordered a warehouse south of Addis Ababa to be emptied of 25,000 tons of Western food so that the building could be used for stepped-up military training.
