Example sentences of "[adj] part [prep] their " in BNC.

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1 The London Board , which inherited a particularly efficient contracting subsidiary from a company undertaking , expanded it further ( even being allowed for special contracts to compete in the area of other Boards ) and it became the most profitable part of their operation .
2 Europeans , almost as much as in preceding generations , took war for granted as a normal part of their lives .
3 For school librarians , providing information on microcomputer software is now a normal part of their current awareness selective dissemination of information service in schools .
4 Violence was a daily part of their lives , and the men paid Trent 's leash as little attention as they would have spared for the commonplace of a bleeding corpse sprawled in the gutter back home .
5 What does seem likely , at least in part , is that a practice which began in the Sixties — distinguishing themselves from their left-leaning peers through a pose of premature reactionism — has since become an indistinguishable part of their character .
6 Mr Hamlyn , who operated on Michael Watson , the boxer , said the victims had received injuries to every conceivable part of their bodies .
7 Now they have finally agreed to an Ulster Branch request for an evening fixture and will fly into the province immediately after wrapping up the English part of their trip on the previous Wednesday .
8 We note with approval the Management Group decision to speedily make copies of the non-confidential parts of their Minutes accessible to staff through deposit in the Library and the specialist gardens .
9 The barn owl and kestrel samples examined here were drawn from widely different parts of their global range .
10 The living targets will be tethered — then marksmen will shoot at different parts of their bodies to cause battlefield-type wounds .
11 In 1950 the Joint Standing Committee became the Conference of University Convocations ( CUC ) ‘ to sustain the position of Convocations as continuing independent but constituent parts of their universities and to foster the development and use of the graduate body as a source of informed opinion , reference and advice for the support and enhancement of universities , their graduates and the community at large ’ .
12 There is also a considerable amount of evidence to indicate that patients themselves see communication as a crucial part of their care .
13 Nevertheless , many companies remain reluctant to hand over such a crucial part of their business — involving cash flow and relations with customers — to an outside organisation .
14 In his classic book The Prophets , Abraham Heschel has shown that Amos , Hosea , Jeremiah and Isaiah all considered their own input to be a crucial part of their message .
15 Normally they were military officers , partly because the army provided a supply of trained talent , partly because they were likely to pay attention to orders from London , and mainly because the organization of defence was the crucial part of their work .
16 Apple , however , were unhappy with their reliance on an external supplier for such a crucial part of their system .
17 It is a crucial part of their economic regeneration , and it is on that basis that other services can follow .
18 There was , too , an underlying legal change : even though arbitration might still play a crucial part in their actual proceedings , courts gradually inclined to perceive justice as lying in precedent , or principle .
19 If the Greeks do not get their debt under control — and that , be it repeated , means getting a 7%-of-GDP surplus on the ordinary part of their budget , so as to have enough money left over to pay what is due on the debt — they will one day find they can not sell the bonds that keep the debt going .
20 If such unresolved conflicts are successfully addressed , if individuals can begin to forgive themselves for their failures and indiscretions , it can bring them a renewed meaning and significance for the remaining part of their lives .
21 They 'll remember it as a tremendous part of their lives .
22 If you look around the towns and cities of Britain , you will find the same story , be it steel plants , those vast chemical plants , the big engineering works , they scarcely exist any more and if they still are there , they 've shrunk to a tiny part of their earlier size .
23 The sell-out concept was inherited by all Right-On people , and became a central part of their thinking .
24 The Italians made it a central part of their defence arrangements because of its fine natural harbour , and erected barracks to house 20,000 soldiers .
25 Monetarists argue that governments should make reductions in the PSBR ( as a proportion of national income ) the central part of their medium- and longer-term monetary strategy .
26 In J. Milroy and L. Milroy ( 1977 ) , we justified this method , somewhat retrospectively , in terms of the social network model ( the fieldworker can be described as a second-order network contact ) , and it is useful methodologically to think of it in this way ( indeed , many other investigators have successfully used the idea of social network as an explicit part of their fieldwork strategy ) .
27 We may also note that certain verbs seem to have the notion of change of state as the principal part of their meaning , not only make ( in one of its values ) as already cited , but also have ( again in one of its meanings ; see Chapter 9 for other uses ) , and render .
28 With some horses , animation that is not a response to anxiety or fear , becomes a thing of the past ; but with others , especially Arabians , cheerfulness and animation continue as a consistent part of their personality .
29 Museum officials plan to make her a prominent part of their new facility when they relocate the Museum to a new off-base location on the west side of March 's main runway , adjacent to a nearby major highway .
30 The major forum for " constructive " thought remained in the Christian organizations of which he was already a member , and throughout the war he played a prominent part in their deliberations .
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