Example sentences of "[was/were] part of the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ : |
| 2 | These had been voluntarily sold to the Nazis , or were not repurchased by the owners who had sold them under duress , or were part of the estates of Dutch citizens who died during the war leaving no heirs . |
| 3 | Gestures of this kind were part of the vocabulary of politics ; an astute politician like Philip used them to great effect . |
| 4 | ‘ He was so moody , ’ Fenella Fielding said , ‘ that his moods were part of the difficulty of his genius — and his temper . |
| 5 | To provide some much-needed improvement the InterCity director decided to transfer ten HSTs to the Midland — five from the Great Western , two from the East Coast main line plus three which were part of the build for the Cross Country ( North East-South West ) routes . |
| 6 | The farm itself housed twenty-five Czechoslovaks who were part of the overspill from Whittingham . |
| 7 | St Theresa 's writings were part of the tradition of Christian mysticism . |
| 8 | I remember well , during the air-raids of the forties when I was in London and we waited as darkness came for the first sirens and the deep breath to get one 's courage up , that we felt we were part of the will of the capital of England . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Prior to the division , consciousness and thought were connected to the process of material behaviour ; thought and action were part of the activity of all human beings . |
| 11 | During this time , churches were frequently the private property of a local lord , they were part of the resources of an estate , and any revenue from them could be used by the owner . |
| 12 | Both in 1780 when a divergence between metropolitan radicals and Wyvill 's gentry in the county associations was evident and in 1793–4 with the calling of a British and then an English Convention , the contradictory potentialities of the convention were part of the substance of debate amongst participants . |
| 13 | It 's er unfortunately the case that relations between the partners broke down and this led in due course to proceedings being commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant in relation to the dissolution of the partners , those proceedings were commenced in nineteen eighty nine , , er in the High Court Chancery Division , there were a number of issues raised in the litigation , one of the matters was a preliminary issue , er concerning the terms of the partnership and that came before er Mr Justice on the eighteenth of February nineteen ninety one , whereby he found in favour effectively of the defendant on that preliminary issue er the plaintiffs it seems were then claiming that partnership , the partnership at will , but Mr Justice held that they were part of the terms of the particular er partnership deed , so the defendants succeeded on that issue , the trial of the action then followed on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one and er Mr Justice made an order for dissolution of the partnership , he then give various directions for accountant enquiries concerning the partnership and he made orders for payments of costs , now the orders for costs were this , that effectively the defendant was entitled to some costs of the preliminary issue and that the plaintiffs were entitled to costs of the er ma if I may put it this way , the main action , and there was then the provision for , set off for the defendant 's costs against the costs ordered to be paid by the defendant , perfectly normal form of order . |
| 14 | Pews were not personal possessions that could be sold or bequeathed but were part of the property of each farm , tenement or cottage , they passed to the new owner or occupier once the property was sold or transferred . |
| 15 | Helmets exemplified this ‘ new status ’ for ‘ real polises ’ , for they were not worn in the city force , but were part of the apparel of the surrounding Northumberland County force , whose immediate boundary was only some three miles north of our divisional centre . |
| 16 | These new codes of popular journalism , investigative expose combined with sensationalist melodrama , were part of the repertoire of purity campaigns . |
| 17 | As indicated in the literature ( Crocker and Fisher , 1974 ; Fischer , 1978 ; Calam and Elliott , 1987 ) the practitioner-researcher relationship is not always an easy one and it was particularly useful that the two researchers were part of the team in terms of giving feedback , answering queries , searching out missing information and reporting on the progress of the research . |
| 18 | Hardly a true grand cru , Sillery gained its prominence from the slopes of Verzenay which were part of the estate of the famous Brularts . |
| 19 | Her rigidity , the granite outcrops of her joyless faith were part of the scenery of their lives : they simply went round them . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Yek were practically immune to the extremes of heat and cold which were part of the climate of Tarvaras , and even they took shelter , if it was possible , from the midday intensity of the red giant around which the world and its two moons orbited . |
| 23 | Barbara wondered if that were part of the reason for his marrying Kate . |
| 24 | Lord Lyon King of Arms , ultimate authority in these matters , declared that the arms were part of the fabric of the building and not relating to the occupants . |
| 25 | The Government were part of the process of blocking the directive until it was so badly mauled that it is now very different from the one that we first saw and debated in the House a month ago . |
| 26 | Purdom , the Financial Director of Welwyn Garden City Ltd , recognizing that satellite towns were part of the process towards city decentralization , postulated the idea of new regional and provincial authorities in order to assist in the more effective development of such settlements . |
| 27 | This award was part of the Economics of industry and public enterprise initiative ( award reference number F/01/25/0000 ) |
| 28 | He thought it was part of the nightmare at first , though up to then there 'd been nothing much to scream about . |
| 29 | The western half of Cumberland was part of the preserve of the Lowthers , or Earls of Lonsdale . |
| 30 | Pressure on masters and on strike-breakers was part of the structure of many disputes and , as Hobsbawm points out , no less effective than most other options open to protesting workers . |