Example sentences of "they [was/were] part " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contacts : yes , these , as I was to discover , were of prime importance : they were part of the game . |
| 2 | They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back . |
| 3 | They were part of the story of his heart and , re-read now , one recognizes that the Helen Noble of these letters is incorporated in part into the texture of poems like ‘ After you speak ’ and ‘ And you , Helen ’ : |
| 4 | William Belshaw , and Roy Beggs of Larne before him , left the Party because they moderated and abandoned the party 's policy of non-recognition of the Republic 's representatives , and they were part of the founding generation . |
| 5 | They were pilgrims in this world , aliens in the society of their pagan fellows , but they knew they were part of a vast community : ‘ this church which is now travelling on its journey , is joined to that heavenly church where we have the angels as our fellow-citizens ’ , said Augustine , faithfully echoing the conviction of all early Christians . |
| 6 | Pasha Naiz and his death were evocative in consequential ways ; they were part of an idiom which was largely inexplicit ( though not unstructured ) but which has to be made explicit if it is to be understood by people who do not have it . |
| 7 | In doing so they were part of their time . |
| 8 | After the second Battle of Gaza , they were part of a reconnaissance column that struck for Beersheba . |
| 9 | They took part in the advance into Syria , they were part of the Brigade that took Damascus on 1 October 1918 , and were there 31 October , when the Armistice with Turkey was signed . |
| 10 | To Marian it seemed that she and Allen were being overwhelmed and carried along by the rush of sound and the race of the sun up the sky , as though they were part of the birds ' song and the general triumphant awakening of the dawn . |
| 11 | These beliefs of Rousseau would have filtered down to Wordsworth in any case ; like the cult of Feeling ( see Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility ) they were part of the climate of opinion by the 1790s . |
| 12 | Soon it became apparent that they were part of a general but secret plan for the whole city — which was being destroyed piecemeal . |
| 13 | She realized she had never seen the servants before except as part of the backdrop of Summer Lodge , now she saw that they were part of her life , real people with loves and loyalties especially to her and it made her feel suddenly humble . |
| 14 | For their authentication , they required the experience of being in the situation in which they were part of the ordered life . |
| 15 | They were part of a broader argument against the powers of the state over what could and could not be published and what ideas could and could not be tolerated . |
| 16 | The exploits of football hooligans would probably be praised if they were part of resistance to an invading army . |
| 17 | But they were still respectful to the Emperor ; as fellow-Muslims they were part of the group that had dominated India for centuries , and it is unlikely that he was nearly as worried by their attitude as he was by the threat of Persian invasions like the one that led to Delhi being captured and plundered in 1739 , or by the rebellious Marathas of western India , Hindu in religion and devoted to cavalry raids to plunder their neighbours . |
| 18 | It seems evident from the widespread popularity of the enactment of the hunt that simple timber arenas were provided in all large and probably even in small settlements , for they were part of the activities at the seasonal festivals . |
| 19 | But apart from this , the Nazareans are indistinguishable from the broader movement of which they were part . |
| 20 | Do species have to be maintained so uniformly and tidily , so predictably , as if they were part of a genetic card index ? |
| 21 | Do species have to be maintained so uniformly and tidily , so predictably , as if they were part of a genetic card index ? |
| 22 | In fact timbers rarely survive to be discovered on archaeological sites , and when they do they are not always in good enough condition to be used for dating ; furthermore , if they were part of timber structures and had been shaped , not enough of the ring pattern may survive . |
| 23 | Thus the shipyards were not ‘ location ally concentrated ’ when they were part of a nationalized structure , but rather represented an example of the ‘ cloning branch plant spatial structure ’ in which there is a separation between head office administration and control and branch administration and control . |
| 24 | The clergy were his servants and subjects ; they had no separate identity from his realm : they were part — distinctive and important , certainly , but integral and subordinate , too — of his realm , neither more nor less . |
| 25 | They were part of a society of determined hierarchies , impregnated with religious values and defended by conservatives for their social as distinct from their economic functions . |
| 26 | The omission of the words is , however , sufficiently accounted for by the fact that they were part of the definition of the trespassory taking which it was a principal object of the [ Theft Act 1968 ] to abolish . |
| 27 | They 're lab chimps , and before they were acquired for the Jenner Clinic they were part of a language project . |
| 28 | They were part of the same process . |
| 29 | I found some much-Tippexed poems typed on foolscap , plus about twenty or so printed A4 pages which looked like they were part of a play or film script . |
| 30 | It gave her an oddly unsettled feeling to think that Johnny used these things each day in his ordinary life , and that they were part of that aspect of his life of which she knew nothing . |