Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [adv] part " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CSO 's new director , Bill McLennan , said the changes were not only part of general tidying up operation to standardise distribution but also to prevent leaks . |
| 2 | The trouble was that ( where it was not already part of tradition ) the introduction of piece-work was often resisted , especially by the skilled men , and that it was complex and obscure not only for the workers , but for employers who often had only the haziest idea of what production-norms to set . |
| 3 | Meanwhile I 'd go round the town interviewing trade unionists , redundant workers , councillors , tenants and community associations : the reform of men was not yet part of their agenda . |
| 4 | Those which used Aube wines put forward the argument that the Aube was not only part of the historic province of Champagne , but its chief town , Troyes , was the ancient provincial capital and once the seat of the counts of Champagne . |
| 5 | Finally , two other points , admittedly only suggestive , might be mentioned : first , the fact that Mehmed II is noted for his activity in organizing , and centralizing control over , the various institutions of the state in a number of ways ; and second , the fact that the Sahn was not only part of his most important pious endowment in his newly-conquered capital of Istanbul , but also far and away the most extensive medrese complex thus far created in the Ottoman state . |
| 6 | Lack of spontaneity suggests a high degree of calculation , looking at a situation as if one was not really part of it . |
| 7 | Though its ruler , Nasr-ed-Din Shah , visited Europe several times from the early 1870s onwards , and also established diplomatic representatives there , until the end of the nineteenth century Persia was not really part of the contemporary world . |
| 8 | Part of the time he stayed in what 's now our hotel ; it was n't even part of the hotel but a private house . |
| 9 | if we 're serious about that we need I think to review that very regularly , because I moved offices and discovered I was still a fire officer for a part of the office I was n't even part of , |