Example sentences of "[be] part of the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 It was in 1982 that TMAM finally moved in to the airfield , taking over two pre-fabricated huts that had been part of the Station in the late 1940s and early 1950s .
2 Her ravishment too had been part of the scheme of things .
3 McLaren , the 22-year-old Hearts defender , told me recently that when he made his World Cup debut against Italy ( the game where he was asked to mark Roberto Baggio ) , the fact that he 'd been part of the squad at the European Championship finals , as well as playing a couple of games on the tour of North America last year , were of immeasurable assistance in making the step up .
4 He 'd been born there and the Burnses had been part of the village for generations .
5 And even Hoggatt 's Laboratory , blood or no blood , had been part of the village for over seventy years , while Chevisham Manor had stood for nearly three times as long .
6 Oats are the safest and most natural grain to give to horses ; they have been part of the development of the horse over the last two thousand years .
7 It did little for the image of a man who has been part of the backbone of the team for so long , and was playing in his eighty-seventh Test .
8 These clubs have been part of the backbone of British rugby for decades , but Mr Salmon would obviously be quite happy to see them fade into extinction .
9 The landaus have been part of the scene for longer than the trams .
10 It had been part of the creed of childhood , indeed , the whole of life , unquestioned as so many other maxims were unquestioned , respect for parents and elders , the courtesy of men towards women and the inferiority of women to men , and original sin .
11 Independent readers , with their heroic sponsorship of The Garden Venture , have already been part of the quest for a new operatic voice .
12 The earlier duchy of Aquitaine had been part of the comté of Poitou , but the duchy of Gascony was an independent entity .
13 In the 1920s , an uncle founded the Barrandov film studios that were to have their finest hour with the Czech New Wave of the Sixties , and his father was responsible for and owned , among other buildings , the Lucerna block in the heart of the city which has been part of the life of most Pragers , with its remarkable collection of art-deco restaurants , bars , cinemas and concert hall .
14 The exhibition presented in stark contrast a series of ideological pronouncements on the wonders of life in the ‘ people 's democracy ’ , together with images and reconstructions of the realities : ‘ fake elections , the forced exploitation of workers in the form of ‘ work competitions ' ’ , the ruining of peasants , the servile imitation of Soviet methods , the ridiculous praises given to domestic and Soviet conditions , the unscrupulous abuse of everything in the capitalist system , the unlawfulness which had been part of the system from the very beginning , persecutions , the drabness of life , of the immediate surrounding , of the work-place , of the living quarters , of the clothing , the false and forced propaganda inundating everything …
15 Those party members who have been part of the fight for a fairer electoral system at Westminster may be wiser , for the time being , to turn their attentions to the internal so-called democracy inherited from those internecine struggles of the early 1980s .
16 Ceauşescu had been part of the leadership under Dej which took the decision to press ahead with devoting enormous resources to industrializing Romania against Khruschev 's wishes .
17 Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry may come and go but Sir Jeffrey Sterling , chairman of the P&O group , has long been part of the furniture at 1 Victoria Street .
18 The Christmas tree has been part of the festivities in Britain since the last century .
19 Later in this book , when discussing the divine nature , ideas of existence and of the self that have been part of the debate over theism will be discussed .
20 Two trained and experienced businessmen in one landscaping company is unusual , and Peter suspects it might have been part of the reason for success .
21 Here , productive base includes some aspects of services , if they have traditionally been part of the reason for an area as opposed to a consequence of the accumulation of population in some area with a pre-existing rationale .
22 Indeed , there is a sense in which most of the working genes in a body can be said to cooperate with each other as a team , because over evolutionary time they ( i.e. ancestral copies of themselves ) have each been part of the environment in which natural selection has worked on the others .
23 IT has been part of the creation of so called post modernism , through its ability to destroy the meaning of time and space .
24 The desire to reduce densities in the conurbation had been part of the background to planning since the 1930s and was reemphasized in Northumberland 's current development plans for the North Tyneside area ( corresponding broadly with what is called Northern Tyne side in this book ) .
25 Yet women have been part of the world of paid employment for many years .
26 Rowland used The Observer to fight non-media battles , notably over control of the Harrods store , which at one time had been part of the House of Fraser group .
27 An Ecumenical Jury has been part of the Festival for the past 19 years .
28 I wish to raise three issues that are part of the backdrop to the Bill .
29 Land-users are taxed , sell their produce in the market , work for or employ others , have unequal access to land or other agricultural inputs and are part of the processes of agrarian change such as commercialisation , accumulation , disinvestment and differentiation .
30 learned contributions have been made , and in that connection , I need only refer to some which are part of the appendices for the case before you today , notedly the contribution made following recent research by Mrs on archaeological matters of significance to this particular area .
  Next page