Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been part of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Natch if the operation had gotten the go-code , that List would only have been part of it . |
| 2 | Only tame , domesticated animals could possibly have been part of the goods and chattels of that early band of pioneers , striking out for a new island home . |
| 3 | The clear association of religious cults with the buildings at Chedworth can be much strengthened by the existence of other structures in the vicinity which would probably have been part of a large establishment . |
| 4 | Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots . |
| 5 | A presumed member of Hizbollah , Ali Mohamed Hariri , is in prison in Switzerland for the murder of a Frenchman on board an Air Afrique airliner during a hijack attempt which ended in Geneva in July 1987 — and Hariri 's release is said here to have been part of the price which the Swiss government secretly agreed to pay for the release of Peter Winkler , the Red Cross official who was freed in Sidon 10 months ago . |
| 6 | Her ravishment too had been part of the scheme of things . |
| 7 | Then , a New York collector paid a record $1.2 million ( £657,500 ) for ‘ Femme assise en blouse roumaine ’ , a drawing by Henri Matisse that until recently had been part of the private collection of New York dealer William Acquavella . |