Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] was part of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The debonair style they both preferred for handling issues gave or grim was part of an improbable legacy from P. G. Wodehouse , whose inter-war writings they had both admired from boyhood on . |
| 2 | She had pitied him ; and that was part of the devaluing , the belittling . |
| 3 | And that was part of my work . |
| 4 | As we shall see , such pasturage was increasingly valuable ( and hence subject to regulation ) and this was part of a general concern from the Middle Ages onwards with providing sufficient grass and fodder for animals all through the year . |
| 5 | In 1799 parliament had pronounced its opinion on the illegality of trade unionism and this was part of an atmosphere in which courts were expected to find against it . |
| 6 | Boast he occasionally might , but that was part of his childlike pride in the continued expansion of his wholesale fancy goods business ; from a weekly round of nearby villages it had grown over the years into a limited-liability company with an extensive warehouse and a solid share of the city 's and province 's retail market . |
| 7 | I freely admit that things have changed since , but that was part of the argument . |
| 8 | But that was part of the excitement of being loved . |