Example sentences of "a part [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In spite of this , Attlee , who had played a part during the war which was very largely behind the scenes — he had been Deputy Prime Minister and chairman of innumerable Cabinet committees — did ‘ emerge ’ during the campaign as a figure of importance , and this was largely an accidental result of Churchill 's tactics in conducting his own campaign .
2 Had it been less well done , someone as prickly and paranoid as Alex Household would have bridled , would have pointed out that to lose a part at the beginning of one 's career was rather different from losing it after twenty years in the business , would have made some bitter retort .
3 personally an and from er and the rest and he , he 's gone to this area and he 's looked and he , he 's seen and he may have interpreted this , or wanted to interpret it so that when his report went back that the , he was saying that we must get a move on to the people in the Party saying that we need to get involved now , we need to be in all these areas , we need to be helping things develop and , and being a part at the front .
4 A handful of women who play a part on the stage form the exception .
5 But the desertion of a part of the crew is to be considered an emergency of the voyage as much as their death ; and those who remain are bound by the terms of their original contract to exert themselves to the utmost to bring the ship in safety to her destined port .
6 A part of the difficulty in leaving county cricket lies in its consuming characteristic .
7 The Family Expenditure Surveys will be a part of the exercise , ’ a spokeswoman said .
8 We recommend that citizenship should … be a part of the education of every pupil from the early years through to further and higher education … . ’
9 Much more interesting to be a part of the making of it . ’
10 And none of this would matter Chairman I do n't think er whether E two whether E two was in or out of the structure plan only matters in so far as it bears a part of the making of local plans and the making of planning applications in the county .
11 It 's easy to drift into a system of parental involvement by accident , a system that just seems to grow and be a part of the school which is never reviewed or challenged .
12 So , apart from building tennis and squash courts , he managed to fit five holes of golf into a part of the school grounds and encouraged the boys to have a go .
13 It clearly needs to be a part of the school 's work on developing its curriculum to consider the place of project work within this curriculum , and to plan ways in which it can be utilised to maximum advantage , especially as a vehicle for the teaching of information skills .
14 The Foulis family who originally built the castle replaced it in 1806 with the Mansion House now a part of the school buildings .
15 The Linguistic Survey of Scotland , founded in 1947 , became a part of the School in 1983 .
16 At a Christmas assembly at Aachen in 837 , having carefully built up aristocratic and episcopal support , and secured the agreement of Pippin ( whose own ambitions in Francia now looked blighted ) and Louis the German , Louis solemnly conferred on Charles " a part of the regnum " , with the following boundaries : the greater part of the Belgic provinces , in other words , the whole of Frisia from the North Sea and Saxon frontier as far as the frontier of the Ripuarian Franks , and along the latter , the counties of Mulekewe , Ettra , Hamarlant and Maasgau ; then all the territory between the Meuse and Seine as far south as Burgundy , including Verdun ; and going from Burgundy , the counties of Toul , Ornois , Blois , Blaisois , Perthois , the two Bars [ i.e. Bar-le-Duc and Bar-sur-Aube ] , Brienne , Troyes , Auxerre , Sens , the Gâtinais , Melun , Etampes , the Pays de Châtres , and Paris ; then along the Seine to the Channel and up the coast as far as Frisia again : within these , all the bishoprics , abbacies , counties , fisclands , and all pertaining thereto .
17 Or are you a part of the initial ten thousand dollars ? ’
18 A temporary vang , taken to a pad-eye on the deck , then ripped the eye and a part of the deck away .
19 She was standing by a part of the deck which jutted out above the place where Ruth stood , by which Ruth knew that the woman was a cabin passenger .
20 That is the Thameslink line , which is a part of the Bill and which has been referred to this evening .
21 For the whole basis of Sartre 's argument is that the dialectic of history is not a metaphysical law , ‘ some powerful unitary force revealing itself behind History like the will of God ’ , but the continuously produced effect of individual conflicts ; each action is in its turn subsumed as a part of the whole in an ever broader , developing totalization ( I , 37 ) .
22 Hegel 's conception of historical time , then , reflects his conception of the intrinsic unity between all parts of the social totality , each a part of the whole and the whole present in each part , so that history too partakes of a self-reflective immediacy which paradoxically makes it ahistorical .
23 And so , according to Todd , not only is variation in family types an interesting further element of the cultural mosaic , it is also linked to other aspects of that mosaic ; as such , it requires understanding , as a part of the whole and not just as a thing in its own right .
24 We can also recognise a letter , character or figure from just a part of the whole , or even a collection of dots that approximate what the letter should look like .
25 The stage at the end was an alcove in the ballroom , a big one , but still just a part of the whole .
26 ‘ I was thinking more of Pretty In Pink , but I really like the idea of music in films , where the song 's less incidental but more a part of the film .
27 They are not a part of becoming ill , which went on , generally unnoticed , beforehand , but are a part of the healing process .
28 As part of the audience you are as much a part of the entertainment as the performance itself , and this is something that dramatists are aware of and have always written for .
29 No servant need attend him , and though there might well be music made before the evening ended , a girl singer could not fittingly be a part of the entertainment in the abbot 's lodging .
30 couple of decades there has been an unparalleled interest in the occult and astrology and Satanism , and witchcraft and society at large , on the one hand it worships at the shrine of science and technology and then it turns and pays its cash , and it does pay its cash , and its homage at the signs of the zodiac , and at the other various things dealing wi or are a part of the occult .
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