Example sentences of "it [was/were] part " in BNC.

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1 Digital Equipment Corp and Encore Computer Corp have advanced their Alpha RISC-centred collaboration , and DEC says it will incorporate and distribute the Fort Lauderdale company 's high-speed Memory Channel , which directly links the memory subsystems of multiple node processors , and Infinity File System , which enables processors to view data stored on the disks of all the CPUs in a cluster as if it were part of a single database .
2 Digital Equipment Corp and Encore Computer Corp have advanced their Alpha RISC-centred collaboration , and DEC says it will incorporate and distribute the Fort Lauderdale company 's high-speed Memory Channel , which directly links the memory subsystems of multiple node processors , and Infinity File System , which enables processors to view data stored on the disks of all the CPUs in a cluster as if it were part of a single database .
3 Is it the case that all communication within a species should be treated as though it were part of selfish manipulation ?
4 An air attack now on Saddam 's convoy or his bunker would be very difficult unless it were part of a general air-strike to punish his refusal to follow UN Security Council resolutions .
5 The word was spoken as if it were part of a mystery too arcane to be rapidly solved .
6 ‘ But it 's not right , ’ said Lydia Horton , looking around the dreary little back-street surgery in the least attractive part of Oswaldston as if it were part of her grievance .
7 Therefore I am not able to suggest to you , and have n't been able to in my evidence which district even a new settlement er ought to go in , but I have to say that if it were part of your deliberations that you should choose a particular district , er then it is not part of my submission that you should not choose a particular district , but my bottom line is that the policy wording should at least ensure that there is commitment to a new settlement and it is inescapable on behalf of the district planning authorities , the last thing that we would want is the possibility of going round the districts , and the last one to produce a district wide plan is the one that has to get the new settlement , that seems to be a gen , fairly unsatisfactory way of proceeding , and each one should have to consider that as part of their certification process .
8 All them years since , and she was a widow and , and she was er ever so nice , lovely home and clean , but the bed was , it , it was n't just flock it were part Taylor
9 And when Marcel visits Elstir 's studio , he 's fascinated by the way in which the sea is sometimes painted as though it were part of the sky , and sometimes it looks as though the sky is part of the sea .
10 The leadership of the state knew in large measure what was wanted : it was part of the national — popular consciousness as well as being itself a result of the convention between church and Irish parliamentary party in the previous century .
11 In 1988 a visiting colleague from the Royal Ulster Constabulary asked if it was part of my role in Systems Development Department to comment on such essays .
12 It was part of ‘ the patrician Jew 's ’ mental furniture ( without compromising his special status , to be sure ) .
13 But it was part of a performance by one of the contenders for the Ninth National Review of Live Art .
14 In the morning we slipped it back under the hen , and at once it was part of the family .
15 In part , it was part of a wider decline in the authority of national institutions from the monarchy to the police ; satire and culture criticism reflected the process and took it further .
16 It was part of the mystique .
17 Managing director Kevin Eakin said that while the half percentage point cut would not have a dramatic effect , it was part of a series of cuts all in the right direction .
18 For centuries it was part of the richest life support system in the world .
19 It was part of the job : his mother was sovereign , he was her heir and they would share secrets that no one else could ever know .
20 SIR Leon Brittan , the senior British EC Commissioner , yesterday said that the European Community should welcome East Germany into the EC providing it was part of West Germany .
21 It was part of the mystique , or so we thought .
22 It , too , was at another of the world 's maritime crossroads : it was part of the island chain from Asia to Australasia ; it was an important source of sterling rubber and tin ; and it had major naval , army and air installations to house and support strategic reserves .
23 It was part confession , part explanation , but mostly a plea .
24 Moreover , many of them had brothers or fathers or sons who were free : it was part of a household deployment of people to spread them among occupations for mutual security and utility .
25 It was part of the larger movement of self-improvement by working people and not surprisingly , given Nonconformist domination , it used religious language and insisted on ‘ conversion ’ and renunciation .
26 It was part of that ‘ love-hate ’ aspect of the special relationship between the two countries .
27 He knows the place well — it was part of his Foreign Office brief three years ago — and he impressed people there with his sympathetic views .
28 He hesitated before slipping the President 's boxer shorts down but it was part of the job .
29 She banged into something solid which she immediately grabbed hold of , imagining it was part of a house .
30 It was part of the morning routine she 'd adopted , a routine that had her up and dressed before John came through .
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